Rupert Read

This quick exchange taken from 'Climate Crossroads' recorded Dec 4th, where host John Izzo sits down with Bill McKibben, Brian McLaren, and Dr. Rupert Read to explore why humanity has stalled on… Why renewables need to be 'ruggedized' | Bill McKibben & Rupert Read

Watch now: I joined @billmckibben.bsky.social and Brian McLaren, with host John Izzo, to explore why humanity has stalled on #climate action - and what must happen now.

Full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-n...

www.youtube.com/shorts/L0gEA...

This quick exchange taken from 'Climate Crossroads' recorded Dec 4th, where host John Izzo sits down with Bill McKibben, Brian McLaren, and Dr. Rupert Read to explore why humanity has stalled on… Why renewables need to be 'ruggedized' | Bill McKibben & Rupert Read

Watch now: I joined @billmckibben.bsky.social and Brian McLaren, with host John Izzo, to explore why humanity has stalled on #climate action - and what must happen now.

Full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-n...

www.youtube.com/shorts/L0gEA...

You definitely can prepare.
See eg my ‘This civilisation is finished’, IFLAS.

YouTube video by Climate Majority Project Britain Speaks! | Climate Majority Project

If people in 30s* Britain all responded to fascism like many are to climate it might sound like this -- youtu.be/-pMPAZnYh38

Britain Speaks! Credits:

a Spinningtop production

Written and directed byGUY DUCKER

Businessman ROBERT GILL
HousewifeKATHRYN TAYLOR-GEARS
WorkmanSIMEON WILLIS
AnnouncerJOHN LEESON

Thanks to: mobygratis, British Council, Ian Wilson Sound

We’re also hosting an online discussion + screening on Dec 15 (17:30–19:00 GMT) chaired by Caroline Lucas, with Liam Kavanagh, Rupert Read, Jo Alexander, Guy Ducker, and Dan O’Hare.

👉 Sign up for the event: shorturl.at/64TJj

Let’s discuss the steps that can take us somewhere fundamentally better.

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 wo...

If you haven’t yet, take a moment to sign the petition calling for a fully funded national climate resilience plan:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Brave climate action for the majority starts with being real about the risks we face & choosing the steps that make us SAFER.
Our short film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Guy Ducker, explores how a nation under threat once found unity, courage, and purpose, and what that could mean today.

Arts & Ideas - Influencing History - BBC Sounds Matthew Sweet and guests ask who makes history and debate arguments in the Reith lectures

Listen, as I join with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social et al for Radio 4's round-table discussion, hosted by @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social, on how we mainstream action on #climate and other existential threats…

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Have you seen our compelling new short film? 'An Uninsurable Future?' shines a spotlight on the growing #insurance crisis already impacting people around the world. Watch now 👇

#ClimateMajority @climatemajority.bsky.social

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Exactly. Cheers Eliot.

Not sure about that.

As the 21st century unfolds, humanity finds itself grappling with the issues of AI and climate change. Each poses distinct risks, yet both demand urgent global attention and nuanced… White Swans 👉 Climate Risk & AI

"The threat that #climate poses to us is a White Swan."

I explain what I mean in this short clip filmed at a recent public debate on Climate Risk and #AI in #Norwich. Well worth watching the full video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwyu...

www.youtube.com/shorts/V8Qyb...

Although tbf I didn’t d flag this at 1 he 7 mins by calling what I was talking about “extreme” doomism, as opposed to just plain good old doomism ;)

Still reeling from the quality of discussion in #BBCFreeThinking. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social Selina Todd, Clare Jackson, Jake Subryan Richards on @rutgerbregman.com. Enjoy it while you can: it's later than you think. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thanks mate!
You’re right: ‘doomer’ is actually a far more complex category. Some ‘doomers’ do meaningful stuff; I was trying to critique the kind that use doomerism as an excuse for inaction.

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
Donald Trump "awarded" FIFA's first peace prize.

To be clear:
We are not making ‘too slow progress’ on climate.
We are still speeding up in the WRONG direction.
…Strategic Adaptation is urgent:

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Congrats!
You win ‘Idiotic non-sequitur of the day’ award!
…Blocked…

YouTube video by Climate Majority Project #SAFER full campaign launch with CAROLINE LUCAS and RUPERT READ | Climate Majority Project

" #SAFER full campaign launch with CAROLINE LUCAS and RUPERT READ | Climate Majority Project"

'𝗦𝗔𝗙𝗘𝗥 is our call on the Government, and every climate aware person, to make community-based adaptation a reality across the UK.'
youtu.be/zugdkRBD0H0?...
via @YouTube

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 [o...

CMP co-directors Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh are featured in the Morning Star’s coverage of our SAFER report on strategic adaptation: a community-focused approach to climate resilience that can unite people.

📖 Read the article here: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/coul...

I did :)
For outcomes, see eg Chapter 4 of PARENTS FOR A FUTURE.

So how did you enjoy it, Eliot? Where did you feel the discussion came out?

So what did y’all think by the end?

Moral cowardice vs a moral revolution: who actually has agency and pulls the lever of power and history? @rupertread.bsky.social, co-founder of the @climatemajority.bsky.social is among some fascinating historians and writers arguing from very different vantage points. www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

Never mind that humans NEED nature too! They don’t seem aware of that.
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(Please repost/comment to express your agreement.)

Why? Because, just like Truss, they will sacrifice anything for a smidgeon of potential ‘growth’. And because there is no care at all for nature in their dna. They will throw anything under the bus for some possible short-term human material benefit.

The best comparator is with the Truss regime, with its #attackonnature.
But Truss lasted less than a lettuce. We are stuck with this lot til 2029.
Whether it’s Aarhus, habitats, planning, Starmer’s bonfire of regulations, both the rhetoric and the reality of Labour on nature are simply dire.

It’s time to voice an ugly truth:
I’ve been talking recently {privately} with ecologists, with very senior figures in the environmental NGOs, with activists and lawyers. What they say - privately - is stark:
>This Govt is even worse on nature than the Sunak & Johnson Govts<.