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How Bad Will it Get? Thrutopias and the Need for Transformative Adaptation | Urgent Futures
Rupert joined Jesse Damiani for the Urgent Futures podcast. Find more information here.
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The Coming Climate Uncertainty Conundrum
It’s time to prepare for the ‘Chaoscene.’
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DIRECT: response to Trump’s inaugural -The return of ‘Might makes right’? …& climate-driven decline’
Across the UK in communities, workplaces and wherever they have power, people from all walks of life are organising the kinds of serious climate action that will make governments take notice. The Climate Majority Project is a rallying place for citizen climate action. We help projects to grow, get funding, and connect with as many willing hands as possible.
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BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking | Knowing When To Stop.
What tactics are justified in political campaigning from suffragettes to climate action? When is an art work finished? Do the moderation of Aristotle and Epicurus offer us a way of navigating life? Christmas – a time for panto, over-eating and gaudy decorations – was your festive season overwhelming or excessive? The writer and broadcaster Andrew Doyle, the classicist Edith Hall, comedian Rob Newman, environmentalist Rupert Read, and performer and suffrage historian Naomi Paxton join Shahidha Bari to discuss when enough is enough, knowing when to stop and how far should free speech go. You can access the programme here.
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Adapt or die: why decarbonisation is no longer enough to save us | Gareth Cane.
Climate adaptation is the Cinderella of climate action, but increasing extreme weather events make it all too clear that we not only have to mitigate climate change (through carbon reductions) but prepare for the impacts already baked into the system. Rupert Read, author of Transformative Adaptation and former Extinction Rebellion Spokesperson, joins me to talk about the need to go beyond “shallow, defensive” adaptation and ‘green bling’ to build true resilience into our global value chains, and how adaptation can be a pathway to decarbonisation rather than an either or. Rupert is a fascinating analyst of the climate debate who will challenge many of your assumptions. View the podcast website…
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2025 Is the Year Extinction Rebellion Demanded We Should Go Zero Carbon but ‘Britain Has Woefully Failed’
The Government is ‘absolutely not going to save us… 2025 needs to be the year we start to save ourselves’.
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At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won’t happen – so here’s what to do instead
With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods
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DIRECT: How we make the New Year Happy by coming to terms with what HASN’T been achieved by 2025
Rupert’s New Year message focuses upon what 2025 was meant to be: the year by which ‘developed’ countries, such as Britain, achieved carbon zero. And what follows from our total failure to achieve such crucial goals: the creation of new goals for ourselves based on >adapting< strategically and transformatively to the here-and-coming climate impacts…
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How bad is it going to get? | Humanity Is Calling – Leadership Summit, Portugal
“What I am saying is that, despite the extreme challenges we face, in fact to put it more precisely, because of the extreme challenges we face, we could be on the cusp of a flourishing future if we imagine something other than dystopias and utopias.” – Rupert Read. Rupert was invited to give a keynote speech at the Leadership Summit in Portugal.
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Radio Paradise | Radio 2050
Rupert talked to Radio Paradise about his route to the Climate Majority Project. A mix of music and conversation, with host Alanna Goldsmith. Click here to listen.
