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As Europe Burns, a Climate Cover-Up Continues

The UK’s Labour Party seems afraid to talk about the climate emergency.

“To cover up 1 high level report…looks odd,” remarked Caroline Lucas, the former leader of the UK’s Green Party. “To cover up 2 looks like a pattern.” Lucas was commenting on reporting in The Guardian revealing that the Labour party 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, massive wildfires in France and Spain have been forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate, and prompting countermeasures from governments. In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the fires were the effects of the “climate emergency.” For the second year in a row, the prime minister responded to ferocious wildfires by calling on........

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