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October 29, 2021 "There is absolutely no doubt that this is a reality that we must face," Boris Johnson told reporters on the plane bound for Rome where he will participate in the G20 about climate change.
Johnson said he had put pressure on the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, on his country's use of coal during a phone call this morning.
"I would say that humanity as a whole is 5-1 down at the interval," said the British premier.
"We have a long way to go, but we can do it. We have a chance to come back, but it will take a lot of effort," he added. "Team World faces a formidable adversary in climate change", Johnson said again.
"The ancient monuments of Rome - he added - could be seen as" a memento mori for us ", demonstrating the speed with which civilizations can decline.
" We have seen with the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and I fear to say that it is true today that, unless we tackle climate change in the right way, we could see our civilization, even our world, go backwards. "