Philip Mountbatten

Philip Mountbatten   (British royal)
Born	Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark 10 June 1921 Mon Repos, Corfu, Kingdom of Greece
Died	9 April 2021 (Age 99) Windsor, England
Nationality	UK
Alma mater	Gordonstoun School, Salem Castle School
Religion	Church of England
Spouse	Elizabeth Windsor
Founder of	Duke of Edinburgh's Award, World Wildlife Fund
Member of	British royal family, The 1001 Club
Interests	population reduction
"I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus."

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Activities

Mountbatten founded the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme in 1956.

Opinions

Overpopulation

He expressed concerns about overpopulation in interviews and writing.

“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed—not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they’ll do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

Can you give me an example?

I was in Sri Lanka recently, where a United Nations project set out in the late 1940s to eradicate malaria. It’s an island and it was therefore possible to destroy the mosquito carrying the disease. What people didn’t realize was that malaria was actually controlling the growth of the population. The consequence was that within about 20 years the population doubled. Now they’ve got to find something for all those people to do and some way to feed them.”
Philip Mountbatten (December 21, 1981) 

“I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist… I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.”
Philip Mountbatten (1987) 

Gun control

On the occurence of the 1996 Dunblane school massacre he spoke against tighter gun ownership regulation, but did so with a simile that struck people as insensitive.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author
Jimmy Savile	“The thing about me is I get things done and I work deep cover, [...] I’ve known the Royal Family for a million years.”	Jimmy Savile

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1965	2 April 1965	4 April 1965	Italy Villa d'Este	The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy
Bilderberg/1967	31 March 1967	2 April 1967	United Kingdom St John's College (Cambridge) UK	Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge)

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