Foreign Secretary David Lammy has warned that the threat of climate change is “more fundamental” to Britain than the threat of terrorism.
Addressing a press conference in London, Lammy told reporters: “The crisis is not some discrete policy area divorced from geopolitics and insecurity. The threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat, but it is more fundamental.It is systemic. It’s pervasive and accelerating towards us at pace.
“Look around the world. Countries are scrambling to secure critical minerals just as great powers once raced to control oil. We cannot let this become a source of conflict in the Arctic and Antarctic.
“Global warming is driving geopolitical competition over the resources lying beneath the ice. And in the Amazon, there have been the worst droughts ever recorded, partly as a result of deforestation in the Caribbean.”
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