Prince Harry has took a swipe at the way the world is changing in his latest chat with Oprah Winfrey.
Speaking on the latest episode of their Apple TV The Me You Can't See series, the Duke of Sussex has labelled the world as "depressing" for children to grow up in.
He hit out at the changing factors in the world, including climate change and social media and asked whether we should just "adapt" and "build a resilience" to the changes the world is facing.
With Harry and Oprah joined by the Shaun Robinson, Chief Executive of Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, Harry said: “With kids growing up in today’s world - it’s pretty depressing, right?
"Depending on where you live, your home country is either on fire, it’s either under water, your houses or forests are being flattened.
"Climate change is really playing a part in this as well as social media and I know lots of people out there are doing the best they can to fix these issues."
The former royal went on to question how the world is combatting change by comparing it to running into a bathroom to stop a flooding bath with just a mop and keeping the tap running.
He added: "Are we supposed to accept that these problems are going to grow and grow and grow?
"And that we’re going to have to adapt to them and build a resilience among the next generation and the next generation and the next generation, or is there really a moment post-Covid where we can look at each other and look at ourselves and go ‘we need to do better about stopping or allowing the things that are causing so much harm to so many of us at the source rather than being distracted by the symptoms?’”
Shaun said that while we do need to change our attitudes and address social justice issues, we need to accept that "a level of suffering is part of being human".
The expert added: "We need to be able to be equipped to support each other and to have the skills and resilience to cope with things."
Harry admitted we live in a society that accepts suffering as a part of life but we make it "hard for people to talk about and share the suffering".
He says at some extent we're "addicted" to the trauma avenues like social media causes but we must change society's willingness to talk about our problems.
