Johnson Exhorts Leaders To ‘Be Like James Bond'

THE PRIME Minister pleaded with world leaders to invoke the spirit of James Bond to save the world from overheating.

- Macer Hall

In a hard-hitting speech to open the COP26 summit, Boris Johnson said we have the technology to go green but now need the political will to match.

He told his powerful audience that billions of young people around the world were watching their negotiations over the next two weeks on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

He said: “Let us think of the billions more of the unborn whose anger will be all the greater if we fail – we cannot let them down.”

He added: “We must not fluff our lines or miss our cue because if we fail they will not forgive us.

“They will know that Glasgow was the historic turning point when history failed to turn.”

Mr. Johnson struck an ominous tone.

He deployed 007 as a metaphor for the last ditch battle to prevent catastrophe.

Doomsday

The PM said Bond films came to a climax with the hero “strapped to a doomsday device desperately trying to work out which coloured wire to pull to turn it off while a red digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a detonation that will end human life as we know it”.