CoP26 summit | World is strapped to a “doomsday device”, says U.K. PM Boris Johnson
The Hindu
Boris Johnson kicked off the world leaders’ summit portion of a U.N. climate conference.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened a on Monday, saying the world is strapped to a “doomsday device.”
Mr. Johnson likened an ever-warming Earth’s position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond — strapped to a bomb that will destroy the planet and trying to work out how to defuse it.
He told leaders that “we are in roughly the same position” — only now the “ticking doomsday device” is real and not fiction. The threat is climate change triggered by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, and he pointed out that it all started in Glasgow with James Watt's steam engine powered by coal.
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