Boris Johnson makes an urgent appeal to world leaders to halt the ‘doomsday clock’ of climate change.

Boris Johnson makes an urgent appeal to world leaders to halt the ‘doomsday clock’ of climate change.

BORIS JOHNSON compared the planet’s condition to that of James Bond, who is tied to a doomsday device and rushing towards a disaster that will put an end to human life as we know it.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking at the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow, warned the world was at “one minute to midnight” and facing disaster if it did not act. He sketched a horrific image of the future in front of the assembled world leaders, complete with wildfires, drought, dwindling food supplies, and towns submerged beneath the waves.

He warned that if world leaders do not “get real” about the threats they face in the coming two weeks, the “anger and impatience” of the world’s population will be “uncontainable.”

“We’re in a situation similar to James Bond today,” he continued, “but the tragedy is that this isn’t a movie and the doomsday weapon is real.”

“The clock is ticking to the violent rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons, turbines, furnaces, and engines… covering the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2, rising the temperature of the planet with a speed and abruptness that is totally man-made.”

Mr Johnson claims that a 2°C increase in global temperatures will cause crops to wilt and locusts to swarm, while a 3°C increase will result in a fivefold increase in droughts, as well as more frequent wildfires and storms.

“We bid farewell to entire cities – Miami, Alexandria, Shanghai – all lost beneath the seas,” says 4C.

“The longer we wait to act, the worse it gets, and the higher the price will be when we are finally forced to act by catastrophe, since mankind has long since run out of time on climate change,” he continued.

“On that doomsday clock, it’s one minute to midnight, and we need to act now.”

He claimed it was here that James Watt built the steam engine and “the doomsday device began to tick” 250 years ago, emphasizing the “particular duty” of industrialised countries to the rest of the globe.

“We may not feel much like James Bond, and not all of us necessarily look like James Bond,” the Prime Minister said, “but we have the opportunity, the duty, to make this summit the moment when mankind finally began – and I stress began – to defuse that.”

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