Sarah Warren

👏 Residents in Selly Oak Birmingham met with @alcarns.bsky.social MP to discuss the importance of the Climate and Nature Bill, and the urgent action needed to tackle the climate-nature crisis.

🐝 Thanks to The Co-operative Bank for helping #CANBill campaigners reach more decision makers.

🚨 Ecosystems are collapsing at an alarming rate, but are we doing enough? Olivia Blake MP—CNCC Chair—makes the case that restoring nature and implementing serious adaptation strategies are vital to protect the public and to deliver tangible, everyday benefits.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“This moment should be seized to redefine the Government’s mission. One that tackles #climatechange and #biodiversity loss in order to protect the public, and to deliver tangible, everyday benefits.” Very well said by CNCC chair, Olivia Blake MP. 👍

⚡ We’re excited to announce that Teignmouth Town Council is backing the Climate and Nature Bill!

🐝 They join 385 councils across the UK calling for new, urgent, science-led legislation—bold enough to tackle the climate-nature crisis.

👉 www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/teignmo...

Climate and Nature Bill Campaign Take action to support the Climate and Nature Bill

I've joined the #CANBill campaign calling on the UK Government to restore hope for communities through an emergency response to the climate-nature crisis action.zerohour.uk @zero-hour.bsky.social

💚 Show the Love 💚

🗓️ 14 Feb 2026

📬 Celebrate the places we live, the people we love, and the progress happening across the UK. One simple action: send a green heart to your local politician and tell the future you want to protect!

👉 For more info: www.theclimatecoalition.org/show_the_lov...

Letter: 'Parliament should bring back the Climate & Nature Bill' Protecting the local environment and tackling the climate crisis were among my main motivations for getting into politics.

📣 @dannychambers.bsky.social: “The Climate & Nature Bill would've made the UK a world leader in tackling both the climate and nature crises with a joined-up plan that listened to scientists and turned their recommendations into action. I hope the Government brings the #CANBill back to the Commons."

Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it Globally, more than one million species are threatened with extinction, but often interventions intended to protect biodiversity are not rooted in robust research. The field has an opportunity to chan...

Of course, the main problem that is holding back effective conservation is not the lack of evidence

It’s vested interests preventing the transformative change needed in the scale & ambition of conservation actions

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.

A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”

A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉

2/ Two things annoy me about this.

First: it misrepresents environmentalism.

That line implies environmentalists have been motivated by sentiment, aesthetics, or vibes, trees over people, & that concern for human welfare only enters the picture once security services weigh in.

That’s simply false

3/ From the birth of the modern environmental movement, leading thinkers have been explicit about this:

Environmental harm threatens human health, social stability, economic life, and collective survival.

This has never been a side-issue or an afterthought. It’s been the core argument.

4/ Environmental warnings were always about people:
about poisoned bodies, fragile food systems, collapsing livelihoods, conflict, displacement, and social breakdown.

Recasting them as unserious until validated by “grown-ups” in the security state erases that history and cheapens the argument

5/ Just a few examples from early modern environmental thought, making this case plainly and repeatedly:

– Barry Commoner
– Rachel Carson
– Frank Fraser Darling

Different voices, same message: ecological damage is a direct threat to human societies.

This was not subtle.

6/ Second annoyance: the false sense of novelty.

Yes, security services are warning about ecological and climate risks.

But this report is not saying anything new.

Security analysts and military thinkers have been flagging these dangers for years - even decades!

7/ They’ve warned about:

– climate-driven migration
– state fragility
– conflict risks
– pressure on food, water, and infrastructure
– cascading systemic shocks

In other words: the same risks environmentalists and scientists have been pointing to, in different language.

8/ Again, just a couple of reminders:

– Brookings Institute assessments from nearly 20 years ago

– Gwynne Dyer’s work on climate and conflict from around the same time.

This isn’t a sudden awakening. It’s repetition.

9/ Which brings us to the real lesson, and the part that tends to get quietly skipped.

Policy-makers didn’t ignore environmentalists because they were naive or soft.

They didn’t ignore security and military analysts because they were idealists.

They ignored both.

10/ Politicians igored them because warnings alone do not compel action in the face of organised vested interests.

Fossil capital.
Extractive industries.
Short-term political incentives.
Institutional inertia.

These were always the real obstacles, not a lack of credibility.

11/ Treating this report as a turning point doesn’t just misunderstand history

It lets power off the hook by implying the problem was *who* was speaking, rather than what interests were being protected

We’ve had warnings, from scientists, environmentalists, & security analysts for a long time!

Stop secret corporate courts rewarding climate wreckers Community action put a stop to plans for a climate-wrecking coal mine in Cumbria, but now secret corporate courts are allowing the profiteers behind the mine to sue the government for millions. Just f...

I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition asking the government to put climate before profit and end secret corporate courts – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...

Stop secret corporate courts rewarding climate wreckers Community action put a stop to plans for a climate-wrecking coal mine in Cumbria, but now secret corporate courts are allowing the profiteers behind the mine to sue the government for millions. Just f...

I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition asking the government to put climate before profit and end secret corporate courts – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...

Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing For MPs and Peers to express support for briefing the nation on the threats from climate & nature breakdown to the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy.

Very concerning. The UK Government should respond by briefing the nation on the threats posed by climate breakdown and nature collapse - and the opportunities from acting.

MPs please add your name to the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...

Thank you.

I have just submitted a Topical Question on this report to ask the government what assessment they have made of the findings. If my question is selected in the ballot it will be asked on Tuesday.

Here’s what we can each do: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Cover page of UK Government document titled "Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security: A national security assessment." Features the HM Government crest and an abstract design of overlapping coloured circles in pink, orange, green, blue and muted tones. Marked "UK OFFICIAL".

The UK Government just released its national security assessment on #biodiversity loss: an actual intelligence assessment using the same frameworks as military threat analysis. The conclusion? #Nature is a foundation of national security and every critical #ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse. 🧵

This is why the #CANBill matters. It offers an integrated framework, treating #climate and #nature as the linked crises they are—with accountability mechanisms across government. The @zero-hour.bsky.social alliance has been building support since 2020. Now there's an even stronger case for the Bill.

You might expect our legislative framework to reflect this: it doesn't.
Sch. 17 of the Environment Act (meant to tackle #deforestation in supply chains) still isn't implemented. Financial institutions remain outside scope. The gap between threat assessment and Ministers' policy responses is glaring.

The assessment links #ecosystem collapse to cascading security risks: migration, conflict, pandemics, economic instability, geopolitical competition for resources. It also flags UK #food system vulnerabilities: we import 40% of what we eat, and we can't achieve self-sufficiency at current diets.

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