“Most people are finally beginning, at least mentally, to prepare for a hotter world. That’s good,” Emeritus Professor Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project, tells me. “Unfortunately however it’s insufficient. In places like the UK, we have to prepare both for a possible hotter climate and for a possible much cooler climate. That’s really hard!”
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“The difficult truth is that climate impacts are coming and we are catastrophically poorly prepared for things like wildfires and flooding and I would love it if the Greens were to spend more time talking about this as an absolute, urgent national priority,” Read said.
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“When people ask me, ‘What can I do as an individual about the climate?’, I reply: ‘Don’t be an individual – work together with others,” says Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project.
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“There comes a point where disrupting the public is no longer productive,” says Rupert Read. “It just makes people annoyed.”
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Dr Read said: “The wonderful thing about drama is it can bring the future that it depicts alive to us. It is thrilling to see the kinds of possible futures – bad, ugly and good – that we may choose together to make, staged for us to contemplate, to see.”
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“At the event organised by Climate Action Ilkley, Rupert said that polls show a clear majority of the public are concerned about climate change. However, the recent extreme weather has shown that our food systems and other infrastructure does not have the resilience to withstand such changes.”
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Speaking to Rupert Read, Ian Sinclair discusses the urgency of climate action, the demise of the 1.5°C target, and the pivotal role of trade unions in building a majority against climate change.
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“The insurance sector is fully aware of the existential threat posed by the climate crisis, since it directly impacts the sector’s economic success. Insurance companies currently have what I term anultimate double-bottom-line: where, as I’ll explain pretty fully in this interview, ethical practice simultaneously makes good long-term business sense.”
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“The deal leaves the highway to climate hell wide open. Citizens are going to have to mobilise as never before over the coming years if that trajectory is to shift.”
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Professor Rupert Read, formerly of Extinction Rebellion, has helped create the Climate Majority Project. “I would say that there is an issue that environmental action is now so much associated in people’s minds with Just Stop Oil. There’s a danger that the oxygen is being sucked out of other things.”
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“The Climate Majority Project works to find the common ground where Swampy and Lord Deben can both stand,” co-director Dr Rupert Read tells me. “We are engaging with communities, businesses, actors and producers, farmers, scientists, and beyond to help various sectors of society organise amongst themselves and with each other to address this civilisational crisis.”
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“It’s not simply one thing. There’s a climate majority now, it just needs to be targeted more effectively. What we are trying to do is proof of concept with the Climate Majority Project in the UK and especially England. If it’s successful we hope it will go around the world.”
This paywalled article was published in the Norwich Seeker.