UNGA: Boris Johnson Urges Humanity to 'Grow Up' on Climate Change
September 23, 2021
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as posted by the channelFaced with an energy crisis that has seen gas prices skyrocket back home, food shortages after Brexit and the fading prospect of a U.S.-U.K. trade deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged world leaders to commit more to tackling climate change at the UN General Assembly.
He is due to host UN-backed climate talks at the COP26 summit in Glasgow in late October and faces the challenge of convincing the biggest economies and polluters, such as the U.S. and China, to significantly boost their financial commitments and pledges on reducing emissions.
“Daily, weekly, we are doing such irreversible damage that long before a million years are up, we will have made this beautiful planet effectively uninhabitable, not just for us, but for many other species. And that is why the Glasgow COP26 summit is the turning point for humanity.”
Johnson used his speech to the General Assembly to issue an environmental call-to-arms by way of Greek playwright Sophocles and Prometheus, the mythical god who gave mortals the gift of fire, but with a nod and wink to popular culture too in the form of Kermit the Frog from the Muppet Show.
“The whole experience of the Covid pandemic is that the way to fix the problem is through science and innovation, the breakthroughs, the investments that are made possible by capitalism and free markets. And it’s through our Promethean faith in new green technology that we are cutting emissions in the UK.”
Earlier Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden promised more funding to help poorer nations fight climate change. President Xi Jinping followed hours later, saying China will stop building coal-fired power plants abroad, a move long sought by climate activists.
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