UK has 'no future' if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse

(theguardian.com)

33 points | by mepian 15 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • palata 14 hours ago ago

    > Food shortages could result within five years.

    And we are only just starting to see the effects of global warming... while still emitting CO2, meaning that we are making it worse by the minute.

    But we have AI! What a time to be alive.

    • browski 6 hours ago ago

      HN, iPhone apps, and web apps, video games, Star Wars and comic movies, more cars and trucks than ever

      I am raising my kids to show zero respect to elders given in to nihilism to preserve their own extravagance

  • sillywalk 11 hours ago ago

    Link to the 14 page report[0].

    The fact that they refused to release the un-redacted report is troubling for many reasons. The most probable on reason they didn't was because the predictions were too dire.

    Australia had a similar situation a few years ago[1], and refused to even say when the report was completed.

    [0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d8...

    [1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/30/offic...

  • thatguy0900 12 hours ago ago

    At this point im just hoping that countries at least coordinate together the inevitable geoengineering projects and it's not a bunch of countries shooting stuff into the atmosphere independantly