Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

The report says severe food shortages could be among the effects of collapsing ecosystems. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA View image in fullscreen The report says severe food shortages could be among the effects of collapsing ecosystems. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis Zack Polanski will challenge Andy Burnham’s government to publish an unredacted version of an explosive report ’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of overseas ecosystems would have catastrophic consequences for the UK’s national security. The Green party leader in England will demand that the prime minister come clean about the scale and impact of the climate and nature crisis and call on the government to publish in full the report that warns the UK faces devastating security consequences. Speaking at the Wild Summit event in Bristol on Wednesday, Polanski will ask the prime minister: “Will you tell the truth – and release the full unredacted report from the joint intelligence chiefs? Or will you keep hiding the truth from the public?” The Guardian revealed last year that the report paints a devastating picture of severe food shortages, price rises, migration, political destabilisation and possible war, resulting from the collapse of ecosystems, fuelled -induced climate crisis and over-exploitation. A redacted 14-page version, including some of the report’s findings, was published in January but the government has repeatedly refused to publish the full version, despite repeated freedom of information requests from journalists and calls from MPs. Polanski, who is expected to be the Green party candidate in the upcoming byelection in Holborn and St Pancras, will argue that the extreme weather experienced a wake-up call for ministers. “It was a bleak preview of what is to come if we continue to allow the greed of corporations to come above the survival of our natural world – and all that relies on it. This must mark a turning point. Where we say: no more loss, no more quieting of birdsong, no more steady trickling of sewage and poison into our waters.” The report , revealed , shows that the UK will face catastrophic consequences from the collapse of key ecosystems in other countries. These include the Amazon rainforest, which scientists fear is reaching a “tipping point” triggered , which would turn the ecosystem from a huge absorber of carbon dioxide into a net source of carbon.