The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late | Editorial

Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issuesEcosystems and national security used not to be mentioned in the same breath all that often – unless environmental campaigners were doing the talking. For years, climate and nature experts have struggled to get across the message that species extinctions, dead rivers and deforestation are an existential threat to people as well as animals and plants. As