Events
Rupert will be appearing at the following events (if you would like to enquire about booking him to appear at your event, please click here).
NOVEMBER
November 26th:
EVENT FULLY BOOKED: Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (“SAFER”) with Rupert Read. 6.30 for 7pm at Kairos – 84 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TG.
We are deep into the danger zone and about to go much deeper. The meta-crisis – of which the climate crisis is merely the leading edge – is already upon us. It will increasingly define the rest of our lives and the lives of those who come after us.
While awareness of this is growing, it has yet to break through. Meanwhile, in many crisis-aware circles the fantasy persists that we can still call a halt to climate breakdown: admitting that we need to get serious about adaptation is seen as tantamount to ‘giving up’.
As we break through the 1.5 degrees guardrail, with huricanes Helene and Milton causing devastation across the Atlantic and unprecedented rainfall and flooding here in the UK, and after what will almost certainly be another failed COP, Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project, will argue it’s time to shift our focus to preparedness.
With its new campaign Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience, “SAFER”, the CMP is calling for an end to the delusion that our current civilisation has a future. By instead embracing a spirit of transformative and strategic adaptation we could, even now, co-create a new civilisation.
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2025
FEBRUARY
February 21st – 23rd:
Spiritual Adaptation to Climate and Extinction Emergencies
15+ places, £310
Persons under 35 qualify for £100 reduction
Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd February
Led by Rupert Read
We need to accept that our way of life will be changed forever as a result of the climate crisis, which is now far too advanced for us to be able to prevent or entirely mitigate against it. That means adapting to the new brutal reality of the changed Earth, which is no easy task. Partly material, partly spiritual, such adaptation needs to include grief-work plus a major change in values and what we hope for. It also includes a new humility. This short course focuses uncompromisingly on spiritual adaptation to the reality of our present and future. Rupert is an associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia; he is a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and the author of several books including Why Climate Breakdown Matters and Do you want to know the truth? He has been a Quaker for many years and his spiritual teachers have included Joanna Macy and Thich Nhat Hanh. Course starts 8:15pm on Friday and finishes at 12.00pm on Sunday.
For more information, click here.