Rupert Read

Rupert Read

@rupertread.bsky.social

Co-Director @climatemajority.bsky.social | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy | Author, WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS and TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION | Home-grown dissident | Free thinker | Earthling. NB Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share: “Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.” (link below)

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Climate scientist Dr @charliejgardner.bsky.social discusses with @carolinelucas.bsky.social & @rupertread.bsky.social the kind of movement-building empowerment for societies worried that the cavalry isn't coming - #climatepopularism. Best yet, proactive governments out there can join in and help.

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🚨New episode of News from a World in Flux🚨 @charliejgardner.bsky.social talks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social about how to make taking climate action popular through adaptation. From the new Climate Popularism report by @climatemajority.bsky.social. youtu.be/ntFeORWeYyI

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Here's how the Greens should appeal to Reform voters. Listen to Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read on our bonus latest episode, Climate Popularism

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Due to the Super El Niño, forecasters are warning of a stormier and wetter winter for the UK. I’ve asked the Minister how she is working across government to ensure preparedness for flooding risks this winter is stepped up to keep our communities safe.

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😮 Comparing El Nino’s Current State: 2026 makes 1997 look like Child’s Play! Who lived in #Florida in 1997-1998? I was a whipper-snapper weatherman in #Tampa back then. It was a crazy winter…

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Can a country defend itself without resilient water and ecological systems? Rupert Read discusses NATO Article 3 and whole-society resilience. @rupertread.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social Full GENN interview: https://youtu.be/LgS3M9MdGy0

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Has the "Zionism Is Racism" motion helped the Green Party advance the cause of peace & justice for Palestinians? Ben Jamal, who was Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for 10 years, is clearly not convinced, and for good reason, imo. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-g...

middleeasteye.netUK Green motion on Zionism: Why we need to change the conversationBy equating Zionism with racism, the party has sparked a predictable wave of outrage. But are we debating the right questions?

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"The fall of this civilisation is probably going to be a lot harder than the falls of most previous civilisations." I joined Jem Bendell, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Will Self and Michel Bauwens for a discussion on what we can learn from past civilisational collapses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wsW...

youtube.comInspirations from Past Civilisational Collapses - a metacrisis salonProf Jem Bendell is joined by Prof Rupert Read, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Will Self and Michel Bauwens, to discuss impending societal collapse, and what we might learn from historical collapses, other…

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What determines whether the ideas of progress give rise to, well, progress, or merely the substitution of the old? In 2025, Verdurin convened a conversation between author of "The Progress Trap" Ben Cobley, Spiked’s Fraser Myers, and environmental philosopher Rupert Read. Listen: buff.ly/hLPlWuc

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NEW: If you couldn't make our breakfast webinar earlier this morning for the launch our #Climate Popularism report, check out the latest episode of the ClimateGENN #podcast, with @nickbreeze.genn.cc, where my co-author @carolinelucas.bsky.social and I discuss its contents. youtu.be/LgS3M9MdGy0?...

youtu.beClimate Popularism: Caroline Lucas & Rupert Read on Winning Back the Public"How did protecting our future become a political battleground?" Download the report here:…

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‘proposals for change tend to be dismissed as either utopian or trivial’: we talk either about unattainable, dreamy futures or about incredibly boring incremental change. What’s missing is the middle ground’ Inspiring on #thrutopias from @rupertread.bsky.social and @climatemajority.bsky.social

climatemajorityproject.substack.comThe creative tensions of navigating ThrutopiasLessons from our latest gathering by Liam Kavanagh, Jadzia Tedeschi, and Rupert Read

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I’m halfway through reading this and I like what I hear so far.

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"...fit not just for today but for troubled times ahead." - Jonathon Porritt, author and campaigner. We've had some great feedback on our @climatemajority.bsky.social #Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. Read it via the link. www.climatemajorityproject.com

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"The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

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Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

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This is "a way of thinking that doesn’t try to hotwire its way into people’s emotional circuitry with invigorating binaries, but, rather, describes actions that would genuinely change lives for the better, and therefore be popular." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comFor the future of green politics, look beyond the Green party | Zoe WilliamsEnvironmentalists of all political hues must find the language and ideas that turn passion for climate action into impetus, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams