The Times said it had seen an unabridged version of the report, and that the published version had been abridged to remove references to catastrophic risks including food-system collapse and nuclear war. BusinessGreen quotes from the Times saying that the earlier version contained starker warnings that deforestation in the Congo and the loss of Himalayan glaciers could drive increases in migration to Europe, leading to "more polarised and populist politics in the UK" and putting "additional pressure on already strained national infrastructure", and would "almost certainly escalate tensions" between China, India and Pakistan, potentially leading to nuclear war.
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https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4524657/government-accused-suppressing-report-warning-catastrophic-climate-risks
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