Contemporary events, I accept, are such that none of us really need any more reason to be depressed - and yet George Monbiot's commentary on the new report Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse And National Security: A National Security Assessment deserves amplification.
The picture it paints is stark: in a nutshell, ecosystem collapse is already happening, and it constitutes an enormous threat to national and global geopolitical stability. That the report has been compiled not by leftie environmentalists but hard-nosed security types underlines just how serious its diagnosis and prognosis of our current predicament is, and how urgently drastic action is required.
For Monbiot, the report largely confirms much of what he and many others have been saying for years. But he's also scathing of Labour for both delaying and redacting it, and (it seems) deliberately making it hard to access - most probably because it puts their policy failings under the spotlight. It's nothing new to bemoan the sheer uselessness of Starmer's government, but it is in this area that their deficiencies may prove to be the most costly.
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