Dimbleby predicted that, this time around, one subtle way allowing the king to make his point would be to gift Trump a copy of that book \u2014 a treatise on environmentalism, traditional wisdom and sustainability that diagnoses \u201ca spiritual void\u201d in modern societies, a void which has \u201copened the way for what many people see as an excessive personal focus.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure [the king]\u00a0won\u2019t let [Trump] out of his sight before giving him a copy,\u201d said Dimbleby. Chinese Premier (and Trump\u2019s main geopolitical rival) Xi Jinping already has a copy, said Skelly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the meeting comes at a time when Prime Minister Keir Starmer \u2014 boxed in politically by the need to keep the U.S. on side for the sake of trade, Ukraine and European security \u2014 has avoided openly criticizing the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on climate science or its embrace of fossil fuels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His government will not want the king to say or do anything that upsets transatlantic relations. Even when the president, sitting next to Starmer, trashed wind energy \u00ad\u2014 the main pillar of U.K. decarbonization plans \u2014 on a July visit to his Turnberry golf course in Scotland, the prime minister mustered no defense beyond quietly insisting the U.K. was pursuing a \u201cmix\u201d of energy sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If Trump starts railing against windmills again in his chat to the king, he might get a (slightly) more robust response, predicted Skelly. \u201cThe response to that will be: \u2018What else are we going to do without destroying the Earth?\u2019 That\u2019s the question he\u2019ll come back with, I\u2019d imagine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
How to talk to Trump about climate<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Some who have worked with Trump think that, because of the unique place Britain and the royals occupy in his worldview, Charles stands a better chance than most in getting the president to listen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dimbleby predicted that, this time around, one subtle way allowing the king to make his point would be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7480,1213,4675,3444,7709,2813,29,7730,7731,2311,3928,10594,473,2438,17790,33,5398,35,728,805,7159,2826,807,1760,518,13859,38484,3739,384,2704,7710,519,811,1199,3695,1201,6717,657,15,49,6507,7631,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-501071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-advocacy","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-biodiversity","11":"tag-books","12":"tag-british-royal-family","13":"tag-carbon","14":"tag-career","15":"tag-charles","16":"tag-charles-iii","17":"tag-climate-change","18":"tag-conservation","19":"tag-decarbonization","20":"tag-defense","21":"tag-department","22":"tag-ed-miliband","23":"tag-elections","24":"tag-emissions","25":"tag-energy","26":"tag-environment","27":"tag-foreign-policy","28":"tag-fossil-fuels","29":"tag-golf","30":"tag-keir-starmer","31":"tag-king-charles","32":"tag-king-charles-iii","33":"tag-melania-trump","34":"tag-monarchy","35":"tag-net-zero","36":"tag-nigel-farage","37":"tag-piers-morgan","38":"tag-royal-families","39":"tag-royal-family","40":"tag-security","41":"tag-services","42":"tag-sustainability","43":"tag-trade","44":"tag-transatlantic-relations","45":"tag-ukraine","46":"tag-united-kingdom","47":"tag-united-states","48":"tag-water","49":"tag-wind-energy","50":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}