A REPORT into the national security of the UK has found that landslides, buckling train lines, power outages, and the flooding of major infrastructure sites are all “realistic outcomes” of the climate crisis in the UK.
The latest publication from the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that the impact of climate change on critical national infrastructure is “already significant” and is “set to worsen under all reasonable climate change scenarios”.
Amid warnings that infrastructure failures could happen simultaneously – with power outages potentially causing “widespread economic and societal damage” – the report stated that there was an “alarming lack of Government action” in the area of adaptation to climate change.
