By Nafeez Ahmed
When we don’t plan (click here) and prepare from a whole-systems perspective, our societies tend to respond to escalating crises by becoming more militarized to maintain order and control in an environment of escalating chaos. The irony is that this only tends to make our institutions even more brittle, weak and rigid—unable to meaningfully address the root causes of rapidly changing conditions.
That’s why we should be concerned to discover that the British government is planning for the inevitability of a catastrophic rise in global temperatures of nearly 4 degrees Celsius due to business-as-usual carbon emissions. The revelation comes from new research commissioned by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in November 2019 to inform the MOD’S climate change strategy....
I am a little surprised that NATO hasn't been leaning into this.
London - Prince William (click here) has expressed his concerns about rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change in a television documentary to be aired in Britain on Monday, the ITV channel reported.
William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth and second-in-line to the British throne, was interviewed on the royal Sandringham Estate, which is located in East Anglia, a low-lying part of eastern England.
ITV said part of William's message in the film was that climate change posed threats to everyone, including in Britain.
"You'll lose the wildlife habitats here, you'd lose the farming, you'd lose the communities," William said, according to a report on the ITV website.
"It's in everyone's interest that we protect these sorts of areas. We have to get on top of the climate change issue."
William said the rising incidence of extreme weather events was a threat, including on his own doorstep at Sandringham.
"You suddenly realise those extreme events are going to happen more and more in the future. And also how low-lying, particularly this part of East Anglia all is."...
