A new UK security assessment warns that ecosystem collapse is no longer an environmental issue alone – it is a direct threat to global security, prosperity and human survival. Without urgent action, the consequences will intensify well beyond climate change.

Worldwide, nature is collapsing and – according to the UK Government – will take human civilisation with it when it goes.

A new report from the UK states baldly what many countries’ governments and politicians are desperately trying to hide from their people: that environmental decline and collapse will hit all humans as hard as the animals and plants it is wiping out, as hard as global heating, nuclear war or any other catastrophic threat.

Worldwide ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten both national and global security and prosperity, says the British Government’s latest Security Assessment.

“The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse,” the report states. It warns that, without global action, the trend will continue beyond 2050.

“Cascading risks of ecosystem degradation are likely to include geopolitical instability, economic insecurity,........

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