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“Let The Conversations Begin” | Climate Majority Project Launch
The Climate Majority Project is the connective tissue for people who want to play their part to bring about the deep change we need, organising and coordinating efforts within and across communities and workplaces.
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Our Inescapable Predicament | Facing Reality
Industrial civilisation has overshot the capacity of our planet to sustain it, putting us in an inescapable predicament. Rupert Read, Michael Dowd and Dale Walkonen seek to answer the questions of how we can face reality and still live full, useful lives, taking compassionate and effective action, without doing more damage to our planet.
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Is climate activism working? | Southbank Centre, London
Throwing soup at Van Gogh's sunflowers. Blocking traffic and vandalising buildings with spray paint. Are these disruptive tactics necessary for climate activists to shift the conversation and achieve their goals? Or are they antisocial measures that risk alienating the public and hurting the climate movement altogether?
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Rupert Read, Noora Firaq, Will Goldring & Minna Salami | Bridging Divides in the Climate Movement
This video contains content from the Bridging Divides, Loving Earth Conference, a 1-day event exploring the intersection of climate and peace, held at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace on the 12th of July 2023.
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Come Clean, Keir! Did You Really Disparage ‘Tree-Huggers?’
Tree Hugging has a long venerated past of protest and environmental protection. Is the Labour Leader completely ignorant of it?
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‘Climate Protests Have Become Counter-Productive’ | Good Morning Britain
Rupert Read appeared on Good Morning Britain with Daniel Hooper, otherwise known as Swampy.
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Retrofit Balsall Heath
Rupert Read at Retrofit Balsall Heath Open Day in Birmingham.
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The Coming Climate Change Reckoning | Keynote address from 17th European Waste Water Management Conference
Video courtesy of Aqua Enviro’s European Waste Water Management Conference, July 2023 https://ewwmconference.com/
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“We’re calling on people to get involved in climate community action” | ITV Anglia
Edited from June 29th 2023 show, courtesy of David Whitley & Becky Jago, ITV News Anglia. Watch full broadcast here.
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“Adversity is the first path to truth”: How climate grief could be the making of us
Gone is the age of natural disasters. The climate disasters of today are of a profoundly unnatural character. They are the product of pumping the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide, methane, and a litany of other greenhouse gases. The dire wildfires, droughts, and flash flooding we have seen in the past few years are only a taste of things to come.
