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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/aescling on 2025-10-09 09:02:46+00:00.
SS - “The [UK] government’s “global ecosystem assessment” report, on the ramifications for Britain if tropical and boreal forests, coral reefs and mangroves are degraded and destroyed, was due to be published on Thursday.”
However, publication is reported to have been blocked due to concerns supermarket prices may increase.
The article continues… “The report also examined the risk that “resource competition” drives instability and conflicts around the world, which the UK could be dragged into. The consequences of ecosystems failing include increased movement of people around the world because they no longer have anywhere to earn a livelihood, according to the report.”
There is some pearl clutching that the report would recommend that the UK, and other wealthy nations, corporates and individuals, pay into a fund rumoured to be established at COP30 that would incentives Brazil and similar nations to not cut down their forests. It does also mention tipping points and threats to food security unseen outside of wartime.
Threats of food price inflation, more displaced people looking for a home and UK tax layer money going to the undeserving global South; is all grist to UK newspaper mill. And especially for the Times to bash the current Labour government with.
However, I started thinking about the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries report from January that was not blocked. This indicated catastrophic human mortality rates in the not too distant future… https://actuaries.org.uk/planetary-solvency
I wonder if this report made similar connections?
Bonus! IoFA and the University of Exeter have a groovy Global Tipping Point dashboard showing risk trajectories for climate, nature, society and the economy. So that’s nice.