Britain's Prince Charles to publish book on environment

By Damien Ward
CNN
LONDON, England (CNN) - Britain's Prince Charles will follow in the footsteps of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore with an upcoming book and film documentary on the environment, the Prince's publisher said.

The book and film project, titled Harmony, will be released in 2010, publisher HarperCollins said this week. Like Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Harmony is expected to generate as much controversy as it will profit, the publisher said.

"I believe that true sustainability depends fundamentally upon us shifting our perception and widening our focus, so that we understand, again, that we have a sacred duty of stewardship of the natural order of things," Prince Charles said in a statement. "If we could rediscover that sense of harmony; that sense of being a part of, rather than apart from nature, we would perhaps be less likely to see the world as some sort of gigantic production system, capable of ever-increasing outputs for our benefit – at no cost."

The co-author of the book is former Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper, who, since leaving the organization in 2008, has been critical of a number of celebrities who promote environmental issues.