Media mentions

“Read tells me that while his 2019 primer on the climate and ecological crisis, This Civilisation Is Finished, is his most popular book, having sold tens of thousands of copies, it has never been reviewed in any major English-speaking outlet. In contrast, it was very positively reviewed in the national German newspaper Die Zeit, leading to good sales of the German translation.”

Read the full story in the Morning Star.

“Environmental campaigner Professor Rupert Read exposed a key conflict of interest driving GB News’ anti-net zero agenda, rattling presenter Martin Daubney.”

Read the full story on Left Foot Forward.

“On the agenda – the topic of net zero, being discussed with guest, environmentalist and Climate Majority Project founder, Dr Rupert Read. “And it presumably didn’t end up going quite where Daubney anticipated it would.”

Read the full story on The Poke.

God, this is good. Professor Rupert Read made the most of his five-minute appearance on GB News this week, accusing host Martin Daubney of showing ‘obvious bias’ and having ‘no integrity’. Tensions reached boiling point during a debate about net zero and energy bills.

Read the full story in the London Economic.

“I took a bus from the centre out to sit in his garden room, looking over the straggles of squash and marrow plants, and we talked with a gourd between us. I read him the story of the River Soldier and asked him three questions. The words we spoke became the material for this Flow Conversation which is presented as a kind of found poetry.”

Read the full conversation in Bending The Arc Magazine.

Rupert Read, a former spokesperson for XR is one of many who believes JSO’s message on the urgency of action on climate change got lost in the outrage caused by their disruptive campaigning. “Just Stop Oil has been effective at getting attention,” says Read, “but that’s not the same thing as getting real change.”

Read the full article on BBC News.

Dr Rupert Read is the author of Why Climate Breakdown Matters and was one of the founding members of XR, but has now set up a more moderate movement called the Climate Majority Project. “The passing of Just Stop Oil is an important moment for those of us in the climate movement to think about which techniques actually work,” he says.

Read the full story in the Standard.

Rupert Read, a former political strategist for Extinction Rebellion, also said the declaration of victory was not entirely credible. He argued that while XR’s protests in 2019 had spurred Theresa May, then prime minister, to write the 2050 net zero target into law, JSO’s disruptive actions had been repetitious, confusing and “not particularly effective”.

Read the article on the Times (paywall).

Read and Lucas have now joined forces to suggest an answer: The Climate Majority Project. “If you vibe with the cause but not the tactics of XR and Just Stop Oil, then The Climate Majority Project is for you,” Read recently told the Some Dare Call it Conspiracy podcast.

Read the full article in Prospect Magazine.

Since its creation I have supported Rupert Read’s Climate Majority Project as the answer to achieving the climate action we need. Read observes that the majority of people are concerned about climate change and to effectively combat it, that majority must act. The same is now true with our current crisis of democracy, as the majority of American voters did not support Trump in the 2024 election.

Read the full article on Resilience.

Last week Norwich hosted the launch of a book called ‘Transformative Adaptation: another world is still just possible’. It is written by Rupert Read and others involved in the Climate Majority Project which calls on the hidden majority who are waking up to our climate reality to take action.

Read the article in the Eastern Daily Press.

Emeritus Professor Rupert Read, a Quaker and spiritual teacher, said: “The Church must offer moral and spiritual leadership, at this potentially dire moment for humanity and all Creation. Rewilding would be a great contribution, modelling, for all institutional landowners, what needs to be done.”

Read the full article in The Canary.