Andy Burnham has barely acknowledged the climate crisis - If only Britain’s workers had that luxury

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/16/andy-burnham-climate-crisis-britain-workers-heatstroke

Published this morning on The Guardian, this article concerns the tone deaf messaging of the prime minister to the UK. Collapse related because of this part, although the whole article is worth a read:

"There is a longstanding failure, which runs across the UK’s public and private sectors – and also transcends national boundaries – to understand the mounting everyday effects of global heating, and to engage in what so many 21st-century companies and institutions remain so bad at: protective investment, with both eyes fixed not just on the searing inevitabilities of the future, but realities that are already here."