Survival isn’t a big enough issue for the government to take it seriously

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We face a climate crisis. That crisis is by far the most important issue we face. It is about nothing less than the future of life here on earth. And the Guardian reports this morning that:

The government's own advisers have declared themselves shocked that the UK has no proper plans for protecting people from heatwaves, flash flooding and other impacts of the climate crisis.

The Committee on Climate Change said the UK's climate crisis preparations were being run like Dad's Army and left the population at real risk, adding that funding for programmes to tackle problems resulting from global heating had been cut.

The CCC's annual progress reports, published on Wednesday, also found that just one of the 25 emissions-cutting policies it said were vital in 2018 had been delivered in full. Lord Deben, who chairs the committee, said ministers could be sued in court if the failure to act continued.


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