In an Oct. 18 interview with Bloomberg News’s editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson waxed poetic about his chances for carrying out a “green industrial revolution” in the U.K.; but he was far less sanguine about a positive outcome for the COP26 summit in Glasgow starting on Halloween. Bloomberg accompanied his remarks with his own pessimistic views about any nation, especially those in the developing sector, enthusiastically embracing the summit’s Malthusian depopulation agenda. Many world leaders, such as China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, won’t be attending in person; Indian Prime Minister Modi is still undecided, as is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
Johnson is urging participants to “keep alive” the prospect of containing global warming since pre-industrial times to 1.5 degrees Celsius. “COP was always going to be extremely tough,” he explained. “We’re going to need to see some real action from the participants…. What we want people to focus on is their nationally determined contributions in reducing their CO2, making those hard pledges. Plus we want commitments on coal, cars, cash and trees.” The goal is for the world to move away from coal by 2040 (2030 for the developed nations) and for everyone to stop using hydrocarbon-fueled internal combustion engine cars. And, he added, the best way to get the developing nations to cut their carbon emissions is to offer them a “big package” of $100 billion a year. They can all plant “millions and millions of trees” to help to “fix the carbon and to restore the balance of nature.”
