The world is looking to America for leadership in the fight against climate change, Prince Charles said today, as he accepted an award for his work for the environment.

Accepting the 10th Global Environmental Citizen award from Harvard Medical School's centre for health and the global environment, the prince said: "Our successors will pay most dearly for our dilatoriness and inaction as it is, but we surely owe it to them to take urgent steps now - not just by 2020."

He added: "Perhaps we should see this as a war we simply have to win.

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[He is right. We must relentlessly bomb the environment until it agrees on unconditional surrender, so that we can have its oil fields occupied and its freedom terrorizing guerillas, i.e. "wild animals", prosecuted and hung.]