Britain's Prince Charles has co-written a Ladybird book on climate change with a Cambridge scientist and an environmentalist.
Climate Change Book Not Just For Children
Penguin Books said that the Prince of Wales, who has long been a critic of man-made climate change, co-authored the book together with former Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper and Cambridge University climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh.
The book "Climate Change," which was launched on Sunday, is part of a Ladybird book series that traditionally targeted children readers but has recently expanded to cater to a broader audience.
Other books in the series that use the original picture book style to better present challenging subjects include Evolution by Steve Jones and Quantum Mechanics by Jim Al-Khalili. Penguin Books said that Charles came to them first to present the idea.
"It was a coincidence where we were thinking about a new series for adults after the huge success of the spoof books, but this time wanted some factual books by experts on science, history and arts subjects," publishing director Rowland White said.
Prince Charles' View Of Climate Change
The royal environmentalist has always been vocal about his views on climate issues and has said that those who doubt about climate change bring about a "corrosive" effect on public opinion.
In 2015, Charles blamed environmental damage as one of the factors that led to the Syrian war. He said that there is evidence that the drought that persisted for five to six years was a major reason for the conflict in Syria.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on model simulations and observations implicated the drought that occurred in Syria between 2007 and 2010 in the conflict.
The drought prompted people to leave the land because the crops failed and due to lack of water moving into cities where Iraqi refugees already established a wide population.
A Legacy For The Future Generation
Conflicts tend to happen when people begin to move because of events that pose threats to their survival. With this, Charles asked the public to deal with the root cause, which is climate change.
The world's warming climate is largely blamed on human activities which include the burning of fossil fuels that generate heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Climate change is also being attributed for the extinction of and evolutionary changes observed in some animal species.
"Some of us were saying 20 years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues, you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of climate change, which means that people have to move." Charles said in an interview with the Sky News.
The heir to the throne said that he wanted to leave a positive legacy to his future grandchildren saying that he does not want to be confronted for doing nothing.
Penguin said that figures within the environmental community already read and reviewed the 52-page book, which is set for release on Jan. 26.
