On Climate and Covid-19 Emergencies, G7 Judged a 'Colossal Failure' for All the World to See

Extinction Rebellion protesters, wearing masks of G7 leaders in the sea in St Ives, during the G7 summit in Cornwall on Sunday June 13, 2021. (Photo:Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)

Anti-poverty groups, climate campaigners, and public health experts reacted with outrage and howls of disappointment Sunday after the G7 leaders who spent the weekend at a summit in Cornwall, England issued a final communique that critics said represents an extreme abdication of responsibility in the face of the world's most pressing and intertwined crises—savage economic inequality, a rapidly-heating planet, and the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.

"The G7 is not fit for purpose. They have operated without any concern for lives around the world—or even for our own ability to end this pandemic."

"This G7 summit will live on in infamy," declared Max Lawson, Oxfam's head of inequality policy, in a statement responding to the G7 communique at the conclusion of the weekend summit—a gathering characterized by the global progressive movement as an unmitigated disaster compared to what could have been achieved.

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