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Rupert Read
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Co-Director @climatemajority.bsky.social | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy | Author, WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS and TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION | Home-grown dissident | Free thinker | Earthling.
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Rupert Read is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and the founder and current director of the Climate Majority Project. He is the author of several books on Wittgenstein, philosophy, and/or climate change, most recently Why Climate Breakdown Matters, Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos, and Do You Want to Know the Truth? Until 2023, Read was a reader in philosophy at the University of East Anglia where he was awarded – as Principal Investigator – Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding for two projects on "natural capital". His other major recent academic focus has been on the precautionary principle, having contributed substantially to work co-authored with Nassim Nicholas Taleb on applying the principle to questions of genetic modification of organisms. In further work, Read has theorised the utility of the precautionary principle in a wide range of areas, including: climate change, the environment, as well as financial and technology sectors. He previously worked as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. .. more

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 18d
In 2026, corporate - and state - sponsored #AI is coming for your job, for our politics, for (y)our kids and for our very intimacy. How do we cope? How do we ADAPT? WATCH my ‘New Year’s message’, to make a start on being able to answer these questions.

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AI-Adaptation | Rupert Read | Direct
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 2h
"The ‘good’ guys are all on their own, out for themselves without being able to trust a single soul."

Are you enjoying the latest series of #Traitors? Here's why I won't watch be watching the programme again 👇

www.edp24.co.uk/news/2493557...
Opinion: Why I will never again watch The Traitors
Why I will never again watch The Traitors
www.edp24.co.uk

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 18h
West Texas cities are scrambling for water. But decades of oil and gas drilling has impacted the region’s water quality.
A Small Oil Company Polluted Midland’s Water Reserve. The Cleanup Has Dragged on for Years. - Inside Climate News
Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 21h
If you're in or around #London on Tuesday, Feb 17th, do come to this:

🎫 Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope with Monique Roffey, Rupert Read & Laura Baggaley.

🕡 Doors open at 6.30pm.

📍 Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG.

👇 Book now.

www.kairos.london/event/thruto...
Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope with Monique Roffey, Rupert Read & Laura Baggaley - Kairos
Tuesday February 17th, 6.30 for 7pm With the prospect of civilisation collapse looking ever more likely, Utopian visions of any sort now appear beyond our reach. And yet the opposite, the bleak…
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d
"Climate change is here. We are seeing event classes [today] that were forecast in #climate models for the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s.” - @oceanterra.org

#FasterThanExpected
#ClimateEmergency
‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts
Drought, heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are arriving sooner than we imagined according to scientists
www.independent.co.uk

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 2d
In my piece for the Church Times, I argue places of worship can (and must) become centres of community resilience in this tragic time. Read now.

#climate #religion

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 2d
Still a few spots left on the next #Climate and Extinction Emergencies short course in the Lake District from Feb 13 - 15, which I'll be teaching with Leena Seward. We've had some great feedback from previous courses.

Details: glenthorne.org/events-progr...

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Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 2d
Our co-director @rupertread.bsky.social is featured in this powerful upcoming event at Kairos, London - Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope brings together philosophy, fiction & climate realism to imagine futures beyond the utopia/dystopia trap.
Tues 17 Feb - Tickets: www.kairos.london/event/thruto...
Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope with Monique Roffey, Rupert Read & Laura Baggaley - Kairos
Tuesday February 17th, 6.30 for 7pm With the prospect of civilisation collapse looking ever more likely, Utopian visions of any sort now appear beyond our reach. And yet the opposite, the bleak future...
www.kairos.london

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 3d
Do sign up for this 👇
climatemajority.bsky.social Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 3d
How do we equip young people for a changing world, and what does it feel like to teach climate in a time of crisis?

Join us for:
🎬 Film screening + live online discussion
🗓 Tue 27 Jan | 6.30–7.45pm GMT | Zoom
🎙 Chaired by Caroline Lucas

FREE registration: www.tickettailor.com/events/clima...

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Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 3d
How do we equip young people for a changing world, and what does it feel like to teach climate in a time of crisis?

Join us for:
🎬 Film screening + live online discussion
🗓 Tue 27 Jan | 6.30–7.45pm GMT | Zoom
🎙 Chaired by Caroline Lucas

FREE registration: www.tickettailor.com/events/clima...

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 4d
Check out the final episode in this remarkable #BBC Radio series (in which I get a chance to critique the #climate CoP process and to argue instead for a more bottom-up / #ClimateClubs process, a more politically realist process, that might actually >work<).

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What Happened to Progress? - Global Visions - BBC Sounds
From technology to the climate to the global order, has human progress gone into reverse?
www.bbc.co.uk

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 4d
“Starmer on track to lose seat to Greens”
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
#Result :)
Pass it on…
Starmer on track to lose seat to Greens
Poll shows Prime Minister and Labour in deep trouble with Reform likely government if election was held tomorrow
www.telegraph.co.uk

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 5d
My new piece for the Church Times argues, in these times of "civilisational unravelling", churches can become centres of community resilience. Read now 👇

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Quote reads: “...if the Church leads with humility and boldness, then, amid the coming carnage, something great may begin: a renewal of Christianity as a dark-green, world-engaged faith, a bearer of prophecy and revelation, a keeper of awe - a faith that refuses to let this good earth go gentle into endless night.”

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Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 5d
CMP co-director @rupertread.bsky.social is featured in a new BBC Radio 4 episode examining the crisis of “progress” in an age of climate breakdown and polycrisis. These are crucial conversations about rethinking the future. Take a look: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - What Happened to Progress?, Payback
From technology to the climate to the global order, has human progress gone into reverse?
www.bbc.co.uk

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 6d
Excellent thread. Wrong-headed dangerous stuff from the Telegraph.
Nevertheless, there’s an awkward fact hereabouts, a little elephant in the room: the Telegraph headline is,erm,basically true. Anyone doing honest work in this space knows it: the radical flank has since 2020 put loads of people off.

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 6d
They are not a newspaper. Just a partisan attack-rag.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 6d
The Telegraph have been one of the loudest voices calling for a slow down on green energy, arguing we’re going too fast. So keen are they to criticise Miliband and Labour more generally - that they’re now complaining that the transition to green energy might be slower than planned.

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Bob Medley @bobmedley.bsky.social · 6d
"... Britain is broken and Nigel Farage is the only person capable of building the team to fix it."

Just ignore the fact that 'the team' will consist largely of the same people who broke it.

Reposted by Rupert Read, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Jonathan J. Buonocore

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d
I mean, what do you say any more?
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 6d
"At root, this civilisational unravelling is a spiritual crisis: of what we live for, what we hold sacred, what we dare (or do not dare) to face."

New piece for the Church Times. Read now.

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Climate crisis requires words and actions
In response to environmental challenges, churches can become centres of community resilience, argues Rupert Read
www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 6d
“Can I check a pulse?” yelled the bystander, standing across Portland Avenue from Renee Good’s lifeless body inside her crashed SUV, video footage of the exchange shows.

“No,” an agent replies. “Back up.”

“I’m a physician!”

“I don’t care.”
‘I’m a physician,’ he said. ‘Don’t care’ was the reply.
Bystander medical assistance was declined during the restraint-related death of George Floyd, and now after the shooting of Renee Good.
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GreenChristian @greenchristian.org.uk · 6d
Great to see this opinion piece by @rupertread.bsky.social published in @churchtimes.bsky.social - it's based on the talk he did at our annual conference last year 💚 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Climate crisis requires words and actions
In response to environmental challenges, churches can become centres of community resilience, argues Rupert Read
www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 6d
Nadhim Zahawi - yet another failed Con - has defected to ReformUK. Zahawi was Chancellor for about 10 minutes during the final Johnson chaos. He got ejected from politics after being caught in a tax scandal.
Here’s me beating him in live BBC debate: youtu.be/hTY3W0dbq_s?...
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XR spokesman Rupert Read gets Government Minister to agree to meet with Extinction Rebellion
YouTube video by Rupert Read
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 7d
MUST READ for anyone thinking about which climate actions are most likely to be successful! @r-thombs.bsky.social and @akjorgenson.bsky.social analyze which types of climate policies are most effective at decoupling of carbon emissions from economic growth. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Does stringent climate policy decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions?
Abstract. A foundational question in environmental sociology is whether economic growth can be sufficiently decoupled from greenhouse gas emissions. Schola
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