It’s hard to find a suitable historical precedent for what just happened at Copenhagen. There have been abject failures of leadership at a national level, and huge regional mistakes like the Treaty of Versaille, but I can’t think of any case as comprehensive as this. The leadership of the world has met in the face of a very obvious collective threat, and betrayed every person on the planet.

We’ve known for years how this has to work. Emissions trading, binding caps, and investment by the developed countries in cleaner infrastructure in the the developing countries. It’s been thrashed out many many times.

I understand the politics, and all the pathetic excuses for why this country can’t do this until that country does that, but you can’t reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by whining at them.

If you’d like to see me limp dramatically up and down some stairs, now’s your chance. Plus, you also get a crucifixion, birdpeople and an overwrought cow-woman. All the great things that have brought people out to the theatre for over 2400 years.

Prometheus Bound runs 8pm 9-12 December, at the Old Queens Theatre on Hereford Street.

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