Continuing from the most recent Thoughts of the Day, the climate crisis is the most urgent issue for security increasing ignored by Keir Starmer’s UK Labour government. Starmer’s ramping up of hostile militarism is a backwards move that will further aggravate huge climate effects that should instead be addressed urgently. We need urgent, fundamental, transformational climate action urgently. Starmer’s government is following Trunmp’s lead in neglecting – actually ignoring and actively disregarding – the climate crisis.

Hostility to Russia is fake, manufactured nonsense which should have been abandoned decades ago. Ukraine is a proxy war resulting from hostile, unnecessary militarism, Russia is concerned about a hostile NATO increasingly threatening and encroaching on it’s borders. Russia’s concerns for the persecution of Russian-speakers from Fascist militarists should have been respected.

Starmer is attempting to gain widespread support for his right-wing, authoritarian militarist project. A better path would be a widespread rejection of this BS, persecution [oops, I mean prosecution] of genocidal Fascists and to address the climate crisis urgently. Starmer’s hostile militarism is going to get derailed by climate regardless – severe climate effects are increasingly dominating all and everything. The sooner climate issues are properly addressed the better.