and it's certainly true that sophocles was right in that sense.our species is uniquely capable of our own destruction, and the destruction of everything around us. but what sophocles actually said was that man is deinos, and that means that humanity is awesome. terrifying but also awesome. and i think he was right. we have an awesome power to change things and change things for the better. and an awesome power to save ourselves. and in the next 40 days we must choose what kind of awesome we are going to be. and to get back to my metaphor of adolescence, i hope that cop26 will be a 16th birthday party for humanity in which we choose to grow up, to recognize the scale of the challenge that we face, and to do what posterity demands we must. and so i invite you come out great u.n. assembly, in november, to come take part in your actions in what i hope will be a global coming-of-age and blow out the candles of a world on fire. that is what i think we should do. thank you all so much. thank you all for the pledges that you are making. i hope that you wi

but if you look at the greek, what sophocles actually said was that man...g isn't quite right in the translation of deinos... he said humanity is awesome, terrifying but also awesome. and i think he was right there. we have an awesome power to change things, and to change things for the better. and an awesome power to save ourselves. and in the next a0 days, we have to choose, the world has to choose what kind of awesome we are going to be. and to get back to my metaphor of adolescence, i hope that cop26 will be a 16th birthday party for humanity, which is not miserable, but a party which we choose to grow up, to recognise the scale of the challenge we face, and to do what posterity demands that we must. and so, i invite you, i invite this great un assembly, invite this great un assembly, in november, to come and take part, by your actions, in november, to come and take part, by youractions, in in november, to come and take part, by your actions, in what i hope will be a global coming of age, and to blow out the candles, if you like, blow out the candles of

sitting there have got simultaneous translation, and the next sentence some went on to talk about sophoclesijust kind of wonder, you know that phrase "read the room"? yeah. er, while making a speech, and the central message of the speech was, world, grow up, climate change is here, it's real, it's dangerous, you have to do more. grow up... here's a gag about kermit. yeah. i wonder if kermit's ever featured... i merely put those things on the table. i wonder if kermit's ever featured at a un general assembly before. well, bts were there, so it was all a weird mixture. the korean boy band, for those who aren't familiar with their oeuvre, adam. so what's interesting, i had a bit of time this afternoon, and you know i always like to go back to the original text of things... oh, you love a document. so i went to the original lyrics of being green, the kermit the frog song... oh, wow. and actually i think borisjohnson is perhaps slightly guilty of selective quotation. so kermit's song starts off with kermit saying, it's not easy being green, but by the end he said, but green is the colour of spri