Published 13:44 IST, December 3rd 2020

Prince Harry says COVID-19 is punishment from nature, calls for action on climate change

Britain’s Prince Harry has recently suggested that COVID-19 is a punishment from Mother Nature as he urged everyone to “be a raindrop” and repair the Earth.

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Britain’s Prince Harry has recently suggested that COVID-19 is a punishment from Mor Nature as he urged everyone to “be a raindrop” and repair Earth. While speaking during a conversation about environment with chief executive of a streaming platform WaterBear, Prince Harry said that he’d also questioned having children as world will be “on fire” when y grow up. He spoke about his passion for nature in video chat with CEO Ellen Windemuth and He of Strategy Sam Sutaria. 

Prince Harry said, “Somebody said to me at beginning of pandemic, it's almost as though Mor Nature has sent us to our rooms for b behaviour to really take a moment and think about what we've done”. 

He ded, “It's certainly reminded me about how interconnected we all are, t just as people but through nature. We take so much from her and we rarely give a lot back”. 

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Furr, Prince Harry urged people to be “like raindrops” in order to “relieve parched ground”. He said that best way to tackle climate change is with action and t words. “What if every one of us was a raindrop? If every single one of us cared? We do, because we have to because at end of day nature is our life source,” he said. 

video interview marked first time that Prince harry appeared publicly since his wife Meghan Markle revealed couple h suffered a tragic miscarri in July, via an emotional open letter to New York Times last week. During interview, Harry stressed importance of “putting dos behind says” when it comes to climate change. Moreover, he also reminisced about his royal tour of South Africa last year with Meghan Markle and joked that dancing on camera is his “idea of hell” as everyone laughs at him. 

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World needs 'doers' 

Meanwhile, in same interview, Prince Harry also called for action rar than words to tackle environmental issues and climate crisis. he said that that protecting natural world needed "doers". Prince Harry spoke in his capacity as he of Africa Parks, conservation group he has been president of since 2017. 

He said, "For me, it’s about putting do’s behind say’s, and that is something that WaterBear is going to be doing: capitalising on a community of doers. re’s a lot of people that say, but this is about action". 

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13:46 IST, December 3rd 2020