It appears that COP26 are running out of the big guns to wheel into Glasgow. Already David Attenborough, Prince Charles and Boris Johnson have delivered their warnings, with Greta Thunberg boycotting outside and the Queen resting in Windsor. Who better than to take to the stage on day two of the UN climate change summit than Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, the billionaire eco-warrior last seen blasting off into space?
Bezos addressed the eco-jamboree this morning to tell delegates how he intends to save the world. The philandering philanthropist confessed that it was only ‘when I was in space’ earlier this year that he realised just how thin the globe’s atmosphere was – an epiphany which merely required a chemical-splurging rocket being blasted off the face of the Earth. Silicon Valley’s answer to Blofeld announced to the assembled satraps, apparatchiks and flunkies a £2 billion ‘pledge to restoring nature’ – 2,000 times the commitment made by Nicola Sturgeon.
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