Prince Charles: Follow Islamic Way

One comment probably went a long way toward livening up Prince Charles’ lecture on environmentalism. Speaking to an audience at Oxford's Islamic studies center, the heir to the British throne urged the world to follow the “spiritual principles” of Islam to protect the environment. “The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason—and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us,” he said. “Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation.” The prince, a practicing Christian and future head of the Church of England, also spoke about his study of the Koran, insisting it teaches that there is “no separation between man and nature.”