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The turning point
From flash floods to heatwaves and drought, Britain is woefully unprepared for the climate impacts ahead — but growing civil society resistance could force the state's hand, writes ALAN SIMPSON

SOMETHING big is happening; really big. All the pillars of smug certainty are beginning to crumble. Nothing captured this more than the “waste” sculpture taunting the G7 Summit in Cornwall.

The Mount Recyclemore sculpture — made from dumped e-waste materials — symbolised far more than the 53 million tonnes of electronic goods the world throws away each year.

It was a reminder that, faced with our greatest ever existential challenge, the world is saddled with rubbish leadership.

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