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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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FULL UPDATE!: We learn from the Times in this morning’s paper that indeed, as I surmised (see thread below), the Govt >haven’t< released an unredacted version of this bombshell report. What a scandal!
January 23, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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A strategy of very-well-resourced, nature-based based #climate adaptation is the most crucial single thing we need to do, once we have taken on board the awful forecasts contained in the full unexpurgated version of this report.

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January 23, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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NEW: “So, the Government tried to suppress this report and now they have been forced to release it; they’ve tried to hide its release in the middle of #Greenland. But now we learn from the Times that they still haven’t released an unredacted version of it. What a scandal.

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January 23, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Here is the frontispiece of the report, which was executed by the Joint Intelligence Committee using their methodology, and is backed by DEFRA research. The report was presented at COBRA, because it is a national security report.
January 21, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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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...
January 17, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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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...
January 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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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.”
January 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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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 👇

www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
January 11, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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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...
January 10, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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WATCH: My New Year's message answers some of the questions we should be asking about #AI in 2026. Make no mistake, it is coming for your job, for our politics, for (y)our kids and for our very intimacy. So, how do we cope? How do we ADAPT? How might we fight back?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srno...
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Book now: Still a few spaces left on the Climate and Extinction Emergencies short course I'm running with Leena Seward in the #LakeDistrict next month. Details 👇

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10 places, £340 Persons under 35 qualify for a £100 reduction on all courses Friday 13th – Sunday 15th February Led by Rupert Read & Leena Seward We need to accept that our way of life will be changed forever as a result of the climate crisis, which is now far too advanced for us to be able to prevent or entirely mitigate against it. That means adapting to the new brutal reality of the changed Earth, which is no easy task. Partly material, partly spiritual, such adaptation needs to include grief-work plus a major change in values and what we hope for. It also includes a new humility. This course focuses uncompromisingly on deep, transformative and spiritual adaptation to our reality. It explores the reasons and ways in which we deny the truth of our predicament and examines what deep acceptance means. You will learn inner resources to help you towards an empowering and coherent truth.
January 7, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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WATCH: My New Year's message answers some of the questions we should be asking about #AI in 2026. Make no mistake, it is coming for your job, for our politics, for (y)our kids and for our very intimacy. So, how do we cope? How do we ADAPT? How might we fight back?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srno...
January 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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"...there's a lot of down there for us to potentially find the upside of and we can do that, it's real."

A hopeful clip from a recent podcast, also featuring @billmckibben.bsky.social and Brian McLaren with host John Izzo. Watch in full via the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-n...
January 4, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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The French have rightly condemned the kidnapping/coup orchestrated by the Trump regime; will Starmer really prove himself the ultimate poodle, and one who furthermore doesn’t even have respect for his one supposed virtue - a strong grasp of the LAW - by failing to join them in that condemnation?
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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We were supposed to have gone net zero by now...can we all please acknowledge and take seriously the utter failure to do so? Then we need to actually focus resources on a strategy beginning with climate adaptation. Read more 👇

www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Quote image says: “...it is time for climate activists and thought-leaders (and policy-makers, and diplomats, and on and on) to let go of fantasies of achieving full decarbonisation on what would have been a sane timetable. Instead, we need to pivot hard towards a strategy based in climate adaptation.”
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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My review of Paul Kingsnorth's latest book, Against the Machine, has sparked some very interesting discussions. Check it out 👇

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December 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Thank you to everyone who signed and shared our @climatemajority.bsky.social petition. We’ve hit our 10k target, which means the Government has to respond.
Image shows that the petition has 10005 signatures.
December 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Give this article a glance. Check out especially the pie-charts / numbers.
It’s very clear here what the political story of 2025 has been.. NOT the ‘rise of Reform’ endlessly breathlessly megaphoned by our stupid mass media. THE political story of 2025 is the rise of the Greens,at Labour’s expense
December 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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'This is a book both for those new to environmental #philosophy and for those dissatisfied with it.'

Looking forward to celebrating the publication of John Foster's new book, Lifeworld, which comes out in June 2026.

Pre-order: www.whpress.co.uk/publications...
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Check out my review of Paul Kingsnorth's latest work, Against the Machine, published by Perspectiva.

The book is by no means unproblematic but it's really rather brilliant and original...

perspecteeva.substack.com/p/what-else-...
The quote reads: It calls us to remember what it is to be human — to live as co-conscious creatures, not as machines. Yet it also leaves the reader haunted. If the web was designed to trap prey, then our task may be to outlast it: to wait, patiently, for the day when the network falters, and the old songs can be sung again.
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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TOMORROW (16th): I'll be speaking at the third Off The Record #meetup in #Norwich. We'll be at the Edith Cavell from 6.30pm. The main topic will be #NetZero with time for a Q&A and discussion following my talk. More details below.

#OTR3

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December 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Looking forward to speaking at the third Off The Record #meetup in #Norwich next week (16th). We'll be at the Edith Cavell from 6.30pm. The main topic will be #NetZero with time for a Q&A and discussion following my talk. More details below.

#OTR3

www.meetup.com/off-the-reco...
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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"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 Green Christian conference via the link.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Mp...
December 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Check out my review of Paul Kingsnorth's latest work, Against the Machine, published by Perspectiva.

The book is by no means unproblematic but it's really rather brilliant and original...

perspecteeva.substack.com/p/what-else-...
Next to a photo of the book cover, the quote reads: “...in Against the Machine, Paul Kingsnorth explores with a clarity that is extremely rare the extreme metacrisis that we are now deep in. He turns here his original, scorching, prophetic gaze on the civilisation that produced him, and you, and I — and that is now consuming itself. He does so with trademark literary insight...”
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Very much looking forward to joining 2,000 cross-sector leaders at #Anthropy26 at the Eden Project, #Cornwall in March. If you are going, lmk and I hope to see you there.

www.Anthropy.uk @anthropyuk.bsky.social

#Anthropy26 #UnitedFuture
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December 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM