@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.
@rupertread.bsky.social"Across many movements in recent history, art and literature have been central to efforts to change society massively through a combination of idealism and realism."
Some thoughts following a recent 'thrutopian' residency in East Sussex. Read now.
@rupertread.bsky.social"Yes, they use the c-word..."
A clip from my speech on the suppressed National Security Assessment (NSA) on Global Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem COLLAPSE, which kicked off XR's Love & Rage long weekend.
@rupertread.bsky.socialWatch: My colleagues from the Climate Majority Project explain various aspects of our work in this video. I also introduce the concept of 'thrutopia', a term I coined nearly a decade ago, which sits between utopia and dystopia.
@rupertread.bsky.socialBook now: Our major new @climatemajority.bsky.social report on #Climate Popularism, co-authored by @carolinelucas.bsky.social, launches on October 15th. Hear all about it at our online breakfast webinar. Reserve your free spot today!
@rupertread.bsky.socialTOMORROW (10th): I'm very much looking forward to interviewing globally respected peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, #SatishKumar, as part of Leiston Book Festival. Still time to grab a ticket.
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How prepared is the UK for the security risks created by biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse?
Prof @rupertread.bsky.social opens the #XRUK Love & Rage weekend with a talk on the UK's National Security Assessment and the risks facing Britain.
@faredalmahlool.bsky.socialReposted by @rupertread.bsky.socialAt Damascus International Airport in Syria, I am waiting to welcome a friend. As I stand here, I see mothers, elderly people, and entire families waiting to welcome their loved ones back to Syria after many long years away. đ§ľ
@rupertread.bsky.socialWeâre taking a break here before our next knocking-up session.
#HolbornAndStPancras
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Older fellow, total stranger, just walked up to me and said, âI voted Green todayâ, proudly.
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#VoteGreen
#Zack4MP
@ironicmullet.bsky.socialReposted by @rupertread.bsky.socialAgree. The "AI" isn't even really "I" yet, and it's already toxic.
@mandascott.bsky.socialReposted by @rupertread.bsky.social@rupertread.bsky.socialBOOK NOW: I'll be interviewing globally respected peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, #SatishKumar, on Saturday (10th), as part of Leiston Book Festival. Still time to grab a ticket. Details via the link.
@rupertread.bsky.social"This is a fundamentally dangerous technology."
I was invited on to BBC Radio 4's #FreeThinking to discuss, among other things, our relationship with digital technology. My opinion: #AI should be paused and probably stopped.
@rupertread.bsky.social"Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires."
Great work here by my friend Guy Shrubsole, covered by the Guardian.
@rupertread.bsky.socialIncreasingly this risks being the hegemonic position on the Right: itâs real, weâre going to make it worse, and weâre going to try to protect ourselves in narrow reactive-defensive ways from the consequences. Selfish, terrifying, ineffectiveâŚand understandable: this is the collective action tragedy.
@ketanjoshi.coReposted by @rupertread.bsky.socialSo many of the world's worst industries keep threatening us with a good time
@rupertread.bsky.socialThe conclusion: there is no certainty at all that market forces and consumer choices alone will end the fossil fuel eta. Absent dramatic CITIZEN (ie political) choices, what will most likely end it is civilisational collapse.
@rupertread.bsky.socialYou and Zeke are right. And that matters. However, the degrowthers etc are right too. It is a very important fact that fossil use has not yet declined. Itâs what is predicted by economics, absent swingeing Govt regulation.
@rupertread.bsky.socialAgreed broadly.
@rupertread.bsky.socialâWhen did this happenâ. Unbelievably stupid question. We are talking about a possible much more unstable FUTURE.
@rupertread.bsky.socialA clip from my talk, which opened Extinction Rebellionâs recent Love & Rage long weekend, on the suppressed National Security Assessment (NSA). I explain why it is SO important that it is published in full.
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w84...
