People's Emergency Briefing - will you attend or host a screening?

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For those who haven't heard of the People's Emergency Briefing and would be interested in attending or even hosting a screening in their local area.

Plenty of us are worried about the climate emergency and in the wake of some local elections, it's more importantly than ever to press our representatives for action. Could you invite your local MP and county councillors?

The website also suggests action that can be taken after watching the film, which is only being shown at in-person screenings.

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Until I know more about who is behind this event (which I can only describe at first sight as scaremongering), I refuse to get involved in any way.

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Yes, on it! There are loads already.

Really interesting to read some replies. Have you heard of the National Emergency Briefing to MPs last year? Film shows a number of professors and is backed by reputable organisations.

Some key findings from ITV:

• The report, which was released publicly, warns that drought, flooding and environmental decline could damage the economy, but it does not offer any specific figures.

The full report shows that intelligence chiefs project that nature loss could lead to annual "GDP being 12% lower than it would have been otherwise by 2030.”

To contextualise, we spend around 11% of our GDP annually on the NHS.

“If we don’t deal with nature loss, the consequences of that could be as stark [as a 12% loss] - it’s more than double what we saw in the financial crisis," says Angela Francis, Director of Policy Solutions at WWF.

• The "UK [is] increasingly exposed to state threats, particularly if our food system becomes a more vulnerable or desirable target.” It also highlights the “risk of NATO being drawn into escalating conflicts over arable land" such as the "breadbaskets" of Ukraine and Russia.

• Similarly, while the short report notes the risk of water shortages in the Himalayas, it omits the warnings ITV News has seen in the longer version - that shrinking glaciers could “almost certainly escalate tension” between China, India and Pakistan - increasing the “threat of nuclear exchanges".

Another key impact of climate-induced nature degradation is the increase in migration as people are forced to move from areas with increasingly scarce resources.

The full report specifically warns of the impact this will have in the UK, with a potential rise in “polarised and populist politics", as well as pressure on national infrastructure.

Hi, OP. We had a few reports about this thread after you posted it in Chat, as people assumed you were a spammer, so we've now moved the thread to Petitions and Activism.

Thank you, and sorry for posting in the wrong place!