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Rupert Read
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Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project | 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 · 12d
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 · 3h
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 · 17h
They are not a newspaper. Just a partisan attack-rag.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 18h
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 · 18h
"... 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 · 18h
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 · 20h
"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.

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Climate crisis requires words and actions
In response to environmental challenges, churches can become centres of community resilience, argues Rupert Read
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Reposted by Rupert Read, Christina Ho

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22h
“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 · 23h
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 · 23h
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?...
(Do share)
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 · 1d
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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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 1d
People can still be an environmentalists if they drive, fly and eat meat, said @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the leader of the Green Party.

He also talked about social media, whether talks about the environment enough, nuclear power, IHT and farmers, Rosebank & more
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Zack Polanski: You can fly, drive, eat meat and still be green
The leader of the Greens wants to widen his party’s appeal and has triggered a surge in membership since his election
www.thetimes.com

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 1d
This is smart from Polanski in broadening the greens appeal. Often language around ‘green choices’ is received as choices for those who can afford to do so and just another financial/time burden at a time of already high burdens for everyone else looks tin eared. www.thetimes.com/article/a7ac...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
"You can absolutely care about the planet but still need to drive your kids to school if public transport is not an affordable or accessible option."

Talking climate & nature with The Times. 👇🏼

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Zack Polanski: You can fly, drive, eat meat and still be green
The leader of the Greens wants to widen his party’s appeal and has triggered a surge in membership since his election
www.thetimes.com

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 1d
If the new #Avatar film interests you - and it should - then read Chapter 28 of this free book…
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 2d
We should admit that widely-mandated #climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality – and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to get serious about making happen. Read more 👇

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d
The evidence shows that cities with protected bike lanes are safer for ALL road users.

Not just people on bike, ALL road users.

And that’s just one of many benefits. Quieter, more efficient, cleaner, more pleasant - for everyone.

Build more bike lanes.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 2d
2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹

"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."

+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
Bar graph showing global ocean heat content change in the upper 2000 m from the late 1950s through 2025. There is a long-term warming in the time series, which is using IAP/CAS data.

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 3d
Over 100 members of Congress have mounted replicas of a plaque honoring the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th insurrection outside their offices -- because House Speaker Mike Johnson has disgracefully refused to install the official one.

#TrumpCoupAttempt

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 3d
Looking forward to teaching the #Climate and Extinction Emergencies short course with Leena Seward in the Lake District next month (Feb 13-15). We've had some great feedback from previous courses. Still a few places left, if you'd like to join us. Details: glenthorne.org/events-progr...

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 3d
Brave brave people:
noelreports.com NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d
Tehran at this moment: crowds are flooding Andarzgoo Boulevard, while on Shariati Street, protesters have torn down surveillance cameras to block regime monitoring. Footage shows massive gatherings, by all accounts, the crowds tonight are even larger than yesterday.

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 3d
It’s truly laughable that anyone at all might honestly think it a fascist film.
Arrows = indigenous, not fascist!! #beyondobvious

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d
Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d
Tehran at this moment: crowds are flooding Andarzgoo Boulevard, while on Shariati Street, protesters have torn down surveillance cameras to block regime monitoring. Footage shows massive gatherings, by all accounts, the crowds tonight are even larger than yesterday.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d
The @guardian gets the headline right 🏆

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 3d
Just saw the new #Avatar movie, #FIREandASH. Too much fighting, as usual; and too much recycling of the first film; but I was on balance impressed and moved. Lots of cleverness. Lots of wonderful eco-spiritual stuff.
On the bright and right side of history.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d
Great to do this long form interview with @skynewsrss.bsky.social

We're engaging with Reform voters because they're fed up with the system - and right to be.

But instead of more division, we need to invest in communities and stop the super rich screwing us over.

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The Rise of Zack Polanski: Inside the Green Party’s transformation
YouTube video by Sky News
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 3d
It’s wild how European leaders are wringing their hands about a US invasion of Greenland being a violation of international law when just the other day they stood aside or even cheered as the US invaded Venezuela in violation of international law.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 4d
“The doctor has nothing left to do but sit and cry next to this patient who is denied treatment and denied travel.”
‘We just sit and cry’: Gaza’s cancer patients die waiting for treatment
Gaza cancer deaths triple as doctors say Israel allows entry of 'chocolates and chips" but blocks chemotherapy drugs.
www.aljazeera.com

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 4d
Watch: "We are being sorely tested, but it doesn't have to be to destruction."

I believe the great work of #Christianity now is to use its voice to channel the cry of our beloved planet. Check out my full speech at the recent Green Christian conference.

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Test of faith: Reviving religion in the age of climate breakdown | Rupert Read
A stark call for a turn to ecospirituality, from the founder of ‘Spiritual Adaptation’, Rupert Read... On Saturday 15 November 2025, Rupert was the keynote speaker at the Green Christians' Annual…
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 5d
Diary date: If you're in or around #York on February 12th do come to my #Poesis talk where I'll be explaining more about the Climate Majority Project's Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (SAFER) campaign.

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Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (“SAFER”) with Rupert Read, Thursday 12th February 2026 (6.30pm for 7pm start) — Poesis
We are deep into the danger zone and about to go much deeper. The meta-crisis - of which the climate crisis is merely the leading edge - is already upon us. It will increasingly define the rest of…
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