This (Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires, 12 August) is a shocking revelation from a government that has repeatedly assured us it understands the risk of the breakdown of nature and climate. Clearly not.
Families forced to deal with school closures, hospitals having to cancel appointments, wildfires continuing to tear through the country, and, so far, more than 2,700 deaths recorded from extreme heat. And yet adaptation remains a tiny corner of one department.
