The Duke's statement comes after Meghan Markle recently opened up about suffering a miscarriage.
For the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, little Archie is the apple of their eye. During the recent launch of a streaming platform, Prince Harry gushed about how the birth of his son changed his life and encouraged him to work on environmental issues and climate change.
During the launch of WaterBear Network, a Netflix style streaming platform, the Duke, from the comfort of his California home said, "The moment you become a father everything really does change because then you start to realize, well, what is the point in bringing a new person into this world when they get to your age and it's on fire?"
Stressing on how we are robbing the kids of a better future, Prince Harry continued, "We can't steal their future. We really can't. That's not the job we're here for. I've always believed that hopefully, we can leave the world in a better place than when we found it," reported People.
The Prince's statement comes just days after Meghan Markle opened up about her miscarriage in July. Meghan wrote her heartbreaking account in The New York Times where she shared that as she lay in the hospital bed, holding her husband’s hand. "I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal."
During the nine-minute conversation for the launch, Prince Harry said that "being in nature is the most healing part of life" and so it is important to save the greenery of the world. "For me, it’s about putting the do's behind the say's, and that is something that WaterBear is going to be doing: capitalizing on a community of doers. There’s a lot of people that say, but this is about action."
The Prince is passionate about the conservation of the planet just like his father Prince Charles and brother Prince William. The Duke has also focused his conservation work in Africa as the president of African Parks and patron of the Rhino Conservation Botswana.
The Prince also recalled the times he went to Africa with Princess Diana and the impact it left on him. “I travel all over the world and anyone that’s visited Africa says the same thing… there’s something in the air, that ends up running in your blood and no matter what experience you have, it just pulls you back, and you want to be back there again," he gushed.
He added, "I first traveled [to Africa] when I was 12 or 13 years old, straight after I lost my mum and the sense of escapism and space that the continent of Africa afforded me is something that I will be eternally grateful for. The smiles, the enjoyment, and the energy of life that these communities have, it’s so different from the way that everybody over here lives. I think it’s so powerful.”
Prince Harry's comment echoes the previous one he made regarding the preservation of the natural world for the future generation, in a letter released ahead of the annual report for African Parks—an organization that manages national parks, according to Town & Country.
Appreciating the organization's work, the Duke said that Archie's birth was the driving force behind his desire to conserve the environment. "Since becoming a father, I feel the pressure is even greater to ensure we can give our children the future they deserve, a future that hasn’t been taken from them, and a future full of possibility and opportunity," he wrote. "I want us all to be able to tell our children that yes, we saw this coming, and with the determination and help from an extraordinary group of committed individuals, we did what was needed to restore these essential ecosystems."
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