Writings
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This Hopeless COP Is the Most Hopeful in Years
Now it’s so obvious that the system is failing, progress is finally possible.
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Don’t Look To The Coming General Election For An Answer to Climate Breakdown
The record of Conservatives and Labour on the climate ranges from dangerous to inadequate. What is needed is a new democratic alliance, drawing together people of all classes and identities who recognise the need for profound change in our political economy and social relations.
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Ecologism or barbarism
16 theses on the failing academic system and the form of its coming transformation.
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Extinction Rebellion’s future is far less radical than its past
Now that the alarm has successfully been raised, the organisation could help unite people in positive action.
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Look back in pride and anger: Five years on from the launch of XR
Great change is coming. The only question is: will it finally be inspired and initiated by us? Or will we let it be brutally imposed upon us by the power of a cruelly disrupted nature?
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Everyone and everywhere is now on the climate frontline
While seeing might be believing, until you’ve actually experienced a climate disaster, it’s still difficult to really comprehend – even for climate activists. Former academic Rupert Read’s recent brush with a devastating storm has made him even more determined to dedicate his life to rousing the climate majority.
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Radical Longtermism and the Seduction of Endless Growth – A Critique of William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Future’
What do we, in 2023, ‘owe’ to future generations of humans? What about to future plants, animals, and ecosystems? Rupert Read and Émile P. Torres dive deeply into these questions in their guest essay for us this week, and put forth a much-needed argument for why we must look more critically at dangerously seductive, radical forms of longtermism. Aside from evoking the various unsettling aspects of longtermism, one of the most piercing elements of this piece is Read and Torres’ exposure of the paradox within this ideology: that ‘longtermism’ is in fact at odds with long-term thinking. Long-term thinking, as they define it, is an ‘ethical practice and commitment’; it…
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The planet is too important to be left to activists: The guiding philosophy of the Climate Majority Project | ABC Religion and Ethics
Increasing numbers of people around the world are convinced that human civilisation is teetering on the brink, but that our political “leaders” aren’t levelling with us about just how dire the climate outlook is.
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Why Scotland must get real on climate crisis
If meaningful action to address climate and ecological breakdown is ever going to happen, the story of our lives has to change.
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Paris is dead: Among those who comprehend what is happening, the climate debate has moved on
Things are not basically OK and never will be again during the lives of any of us. The task is to take these difficult truths and turn them into motivation, ammunition, energy.
