Rupert Read

Norfolk

Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project @CMP_voice | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy @uniofeastanglia | @bluesky - https://t.co/DMqxAICYpd

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Rupert Read: Climate change requires collective action

3 days ago | edp24.co.uk | Rupert Read

Meanwhile, the rain we recently had in East Anglia has been a huge relief, but so far it’s too little too late for our farmers, and food growers at large (of whom I’m one). If we dare to look up, then we all know it: the situation is profoundly scary, out of control. It demands an effective response. The Government’s own Climate Change Committee has recently said it plain: This country is completely unprepared for the coming climate impacts.
'The Case for Climate Popularism in the Green Party'

2 weeks ago | bylinetimes.com | Rupert Read

Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. The recent local elections in the UK have revealed starkly where British politics is at. There were serious forward advances for the Lib Dems and Greens. Labour and the Conservatives both fell back calamitously. And Reform, of course, was the biggest winner of all.
So, Why Are Britain’s Energy Bills So High?

2 weeks ago | rupertsreads.substack.com | Rupert Read

Following my recent appearance on GBNews, which has gone fabulously viral, in which I called out the corruption of the fossil-fuel-owned ‘news’ outlet, I thought it best to do a deep-dive on just why UK energy bills are so high. So here goes!Firstly, the international price of gas is a primary driver of the UK energy price - so long as we still have significant dependence upon gas in our system.
The End of Tactical Voting? A Post-Election Reflection

4 weeks ago | rupertread.net | Rupert Read

By Rupert Read. After last week’s remarkable local election results — in which Reform UK surged, and the Greens and Lib Dems also made big gains — some observers are still clinging to an old assumption: That the fear of a Farage or Badenoch premiership will, in the end, focus minds — and push voters back into Labour’s arms. I believe that assumption is wrong and that it underestimates just how much the ground has shifted.
From Failing To Prepare To Preparing To Fail?

1 month ago | popularresistance.org | Rupert Read

The Climate Change Committee’s Devastating Verdict On The State Of Britain’s Climate. The recent Climate Change Committee report on the UK government’s lack of preparedness for climate breakdown reveals negligence at a historic scale. The report lays bare years of successive Governments’ failure to prepare the UK for the breakdown that is now upon us, with far worse to come.
From failing to prepare to preparing to fail?: The Climate Change Committee’s devastating verdict on the state of Britain’s climate resilience

1 month ago | resilience.org | Rupert Read

The recent Climate Change Committee report on the UK government’s lack of preparedness for climate breakdown reveals negligence at a historic scale. The report lays bare years of successive Governments’ failure to prepare the UK for the breakdown that is now upon us, with far worse to come. From heat exposure to rising flood risk to national infrastructure, homes and harvests, countless lives and livelihoods are at severe risk.
Is Britain in a climate tailspin?

1 month ago | news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Rupert Read

Do you want the good news or bad news first? Good news: here in the UK it’s a sunny Friday on the cusp of a bank holiday weekend. Bad news: Shiz cray. Could go either way: this is one of 3 holiday weekend episodes. Definitely good news: Lydia Collas of UK think tank Green Alliance and Rupert Read of Climate Majority Project have incisive analysis of what we’re seeing over here.
Paddy's vision of long-lost village life in Rockland... and how we can bring it back

1 month ago | edp24.co.uk | Rupert Read

The author (Rupert Read) interviewing Paddy Flynn for the Five Mile Network, in Rockland Parish Hall (Image: Juliette Harkin) I live in Rockland St Mary, on the edge of the Broads. In a meeting of our local ‘Five Mile Network’ for resilience, I recently had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Paddy Flynn, my village’s local amateur historian, about his life growing up here in rural Norfolk. It was incredibly eye-opening.
To survive the Chaoscene, we will need resilient communities

1 month ago | aeon.co | Rupert Read

Where the danger grows, there also grows the saving power. – From ‘Patmos’ (1803) by Friedrich HölderlinThe fad in recent years for largely virtual ‘communities’ of interest across the world is an artefact of a temporary moment in human history, a moment wherein elevated technological progress coincided with a lack of substantial blowback from the waste products of that ‘progress’. That moment is coming to an end, most obviously through the rapidly rising tide of climate disasters.
Welcome to the Chaoscene - Rupert Read

1 month ago | qoshe.com | Rupert Read

Where the danger grows, there also grows the saving power. – From ‘Patmos’ (1803) by Friedrich Hölderlin The fad in recent years for largely virtual ‘communities’ of interest across the world is an artefact of a temporary moment in human history, a moment wherein elevated technological progress coincided with a lack of substantial blowback from the waste products of that ‘progress’. That moment is coming to an end, most obviously through the rapidly rising tide of climate disasters.