“To cover up one high level report … looks odd,” remarked Caroline Lucas, the former leader of the UK’s Green Party. “To cover up two looks like a pattern.” Lucas was commenting on reporting in The Guardian revealing that the Labour government was again burying an explosive report by UK military and intelligence leaders warning that the global collapse of ecosystems poses grave threats to the UK’s security and food supply within as little as five years.

The UK “has no future” if it cannot “restore the natural world on which we rely for our food, water and clean air,” said Chris Hinchliff, who is among the members of parliament pressing the government to release the full report, rather than a shorter, redacted version. Even that version, which was obtained by The Guardian’s Fiona Harvey, “paints a devastating picture of severe food shortages, price rises, migration, political destabilisation, and possible war, resulting from the collapse of ecosystems, fuelled by the human-induced climate crisis and over-exploitation,” Harvey wrote.

Meanwhile,........

© National Observer