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Rupert Read is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and the founder and current director of the Climate Majority Project. He… more

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"Adaptation is not a distraction — it is our way in. It reconnects us to each other, to our power, and to the possibility of real change."

Read my latest piece about how we become #SAFER.

#climate

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How We Become #SAFER
Why adaptation must be at the heart of climate action – and how it empowers us all.
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“An urgent examination of where we are with the climate crisis…and how we might rally for the greatest comeback story of all time.”

- Stephen Markley

Find out more on overshootpod.com

Episode 1 available now
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Help us get the Government to see our call for a National Climate Resilience Plan by signing this petition and then sharing it. We need 10,000 signatures to get them to respond.

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Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…
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It was a pleasure to interview Asad Rehman, new chief executive of Friends of the Earth UK, about his take on climate adaptation, for @climatemajority.bsky.social forthcoming report 'We need to talk about adaptation'. Watch this space for the results!

#gpconf #adaptation #safer
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This is the Red Line For Palestine demonstration that I just took part in a at #gpconf. 1000 people holding up a phenomenally long red silken banner.

#redlineforpalestine #GreenPartyConference #solidarity
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Earlier today, I chaired a panel on climate emergency resilience with Bob Ward and Anna Hollyman at @GreenPartyConf where Bob poignantly remarked:

"The alternative to adaptation is suffering"

#safer #greenparty #panel #ClimateSolutions #gpconf
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Beautiful to hear and see Green Deputy Leader Mothin Ali’s voice cracking as he relates his personal family experiences with poverty and the poverty he sees as a Councillor. #gpconf
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Revealed: Green Party membership in fact 50% higher than Lib Dems - previous Lib Dem figure included non-paying ‘supporters’: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... #gpconf
Green membership in fact 50% bigger than Lib Dems
Lib Dem membership is much lower than widely reported
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Watching Zack Polanski’s Leader’s Speech at Green Party Conference in Bournemouth.
#gpconf
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Read my latest article on the critical need for adaptation in the face of the accelerating challenges of climate change.

#safer #climate #adaptation #resilience #community

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How We Become #SAFER
Why adaptation must be at the heart of climate action – and how it empowers us all.
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So pleased to have taken part in this series.
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The world missed its goal for tackling climate change

What happens next?

That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series

We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next

Listen to the trailer👇

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Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer
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On my way to #GPConf (to chair a panel on climate adaptation):
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How many people think to themselves, "I'd vote Labour, if only they could be more like Trump." I would guess it's a number close to zero.
But Labour seems to be chasing a figment of its imagination, and this is perhaps the most grotesque example so far.
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Labour Party Conference: Housing chief Steve Reed tips his hat to Trump
With his MAGA-style slogan and red baseball cap, the new housing secretary has brought energy to the Labour Party Conference. But is it the right energy? asks Will Hurst
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Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act
Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
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"It is increasingly clear that unless our species is willing to learn lessons from nature, it will face a truly terrible fall (and drag much of #nature down with it)."

Check out my latest article with Adam Timlett and Joe Eastoe 👇

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Learning from Nature - Climate Majority Project
Learning from nature: How organisations like the Climate Majority Project are (and can be more) organismal in their strategic approach and methods By Adam Timlett, Rupert Read & Joe Eastoe Cover note…
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The world missed its goal for tackling climate change

What happens next?

That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series

We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next

Listen to the trailer👇

open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...
Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer
open.spotify.com
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Looking forward to chairing this panel on #adaptation at the #GreenParty Autumn Conference in Bournemouth on Saturday (Oct 4th).
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Yup.
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"Perhaps most interestingly, the report contends strategic adaptation can help to neuter the rise of the hard right in Britain."

Ian Sinclair writes about our Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (SAFER) report for the Morning Star.

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Could ‘strategic adaptation’ combat climate breakdown and the surging hard right?
“CLIMATE is our biggest war,” Ana Toni, the chief executive of the Cop30 United Nations climate summit, argued in June.“Climate is here for the next 100 years. We need to focus and… not allow those…
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by Rupert Read

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We need 10,000 signatures to get the Government to respond to our call for a National Climate Resilience Plan. We need to protect communities from climate impacts. Can you help us get there? Sign now.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…
petition.parliament.uk
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Hmm, weird. Patriot Nigel would never make pro-Russia statements.

Oh wait, yes he has, and I compiled them in this article.

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"... extracting millions of litres a day from a drought area, draining an ecologically significant chalk stream on life support, is apparently… perfectly legal."

Important new column by James Vaccaro on water justice and #climate change.

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Water, water everywhere... until it's taken overnight
Water, Water Everywhere… Until It’s Taken Overnight
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Trump’s attack on George Soros is the next step in the autocrat’s handbook | Kenneth Roth
Trump’s attack on George Soros is the next step in the autocrat’s handbook | Kenneth Roth
Having already attacked judges, lawyers, media companies and universities, the president has set his sights on civilians
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🚨 Legal win 🚨

UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
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"We have entered the age of #climate consequences. From escalating floods to wildfires, extreme climate impacts are no longer a future problem, and they will continue to get worse."

Here are 8 steps for strategic adaptation for emergency resilience 👇

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How we deliver strategic adaptation for emergency resilience
Humanity’s failure to halt environmental destruction arises principally from a ‘wicked collective action problem.’ A ‘collective action’ problem is a situation where individuals would benefit from…
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