“The clock is ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of engines and furnaces and turbines that are enveloping the earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2.”
British politicians have long been admired across the Atlantic for their rhetorical flourish, and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson rose to the occasion during his opening address as the host leader at theJohnson opened with a clever analogy, welcoming the assembled delegates “to Scotland, whose most famous fictional son is almost certainly a man called James Bond.
“We are in roughly the same position, my fellow world leaders, as James Bond today, except this is not a movie, and the doomsday device is real,” Johnson said. “The clock is ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of engines and furnaces and turbines that are enveloping the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2.”
So Johnson is not an exception among conservatives in advanced industrialized democracies; U.S. Republicans are. Indeed, Johnson’s whole posture toward climate science — which former President Donald Trump flagrantly rejects — is indistinguishable from that of an American Democrat like President Biden.
To an American who cares about climate change and is frustrated by the political divisions over the issue in the United States, Johnson’s language was a stirring reminder that in other rich, powerful countries, the cause is increasingly universal.
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