{"id":446995,"date":"2021-11-02T08:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446995"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:45:46","slug":"glasgow-cop26-its-james-bond-moment-to-save-planet-says-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/glasgow-cop26-its-james-bond-moment-to-save-planet-says-boris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow COP26: It&#8217;s James Bond moment to save planet, says Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened the global climate summit on Monday, saying the world is strapped to a \u201cdoomsday device\u201d. Johnson likened an ever-warming Earth\u2019s position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond \u2014 strapped to a bomb that will destroy the planet and trying to work out how to defuse it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in roughly the same position my fellow global leaders as James Bond today except that the tragedy is this is not a movie\u2026 the doomsday device is real&#8230; it\u2019s \u2018one minute to midnight\u2019 to prevent climate catastrophe.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The threat is climate change triggered by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, and he pointed out that it all started in Glasgow with James Watt&#8217;s steam engine powered by coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened the global climate summit on Monday, saying the world is strapped to a \u201cdoomsday device\u201d. Johnson likened an ever-warming Earth\u2019s position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond \u2014 strapped to a bomb that will destroy the planet and trying to work out how to defuse it. \u201cWe are in roughly the same position my fellow global leaders as James Bond today except that the tragedy is this is not a movie\u2026 the doomsday device is real&#8230; it\u2019s \u2018one minute to midnight\u2019 to prevent climate catastrophe.\u201d The threat is climate change triggered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}