The Telegraph’s James Delingpole has a few choice observations about the Frog-and-Prince video Greg linked earlier. Excerpted below, read the whole thing here:

Do we reckon all the logging companies and cattle ranchers making their fortune in the Amazon basin are suddenly going to go: “Oh well, if the future King of England, Han Solo and the star of that towering meisterwerk of international cinema Jumanji says what we’re doing is wrong, well we’d better give up now!”
[. . .] Do we reckon they’re going to listen to any new international rainforest-saving directives any more than they listened to any of the previous ones?
Of course they’re not. Prince Charles’s campaign has about as much chance as saving the rainforests as shoving a “Free Tibet” sticker on your car bumper does of driving the Chinese out of Lhasa. . . . It’s a total waste of energy.
This is what’s wrong with the modern green movement: like one of its early founding fathers Adolf Hitler, it will insist on fighting its wars on too many fronts. Some of its battles really are worth fighting: over-fishing is one; the destruction of the rainforests is definitely another. Unfortunately, the main effort of its campaigning has been wasted on a chimera: the thing they used to call “global warming” and now call “climate change.” As Bjorn Lomborg and others have pointed out, this has resulted in billions and billions of dollars being squandered trying to prevent a natural process, when the same amount of money could have been used to do real good: providing vitamins to deficient children; providing drinkable water to every person on the planet; etc.
It’s also exactly where Prince Charles goes wrong in his video. He uses rainforests as an excuse to bleat about “the urgent fight against climate change” and “the battle against catastrophic climate change”, conflating two very different problems: one real and quite urgent, the other largely illusory. If he stuck to the rainforests and ignored the anthropogenic global warming drivel, his message would have so much more impact and credibility.
There’s only one thing that can stop deforestation and that’s money: money to enable countries like Brazil to pay for enforcement; money for bribes, blackmail, eco-tourism projects, conservation, land purchase. Far more money, unfortunately, than Prince Charles nets every year from the Duchy of Cornwall; more money even than the millions Al Gore has made from “carbon saving” projects.
Yet if it weren’t for the green movement that money would be much more easily available. To take but one example: the global costs of implementing the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions stand so far at around $633 billion. The potential temperature saving by the year 2050 this has brought about it is 0.006565159 degrees Centigrade. (Check out the hilarious but depressing clock at Junkscience.com).
For money like that you could buy yourself an awful lot of rainforest. But unless Prince Charles and his fellow green campaigners can get their priorities sorted, those beloved trees of theirs (and picturesque tribespeople, and two-toed sloths, and pink dolphins) are doomed.