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    Changing the Way you See Justice | Rebel Justice

    13 September 2023 /

    Part II of the special Rebel Justice podcast, featuring Rupert Read with host Nigel Gould-Davies, explores the impact of hasty legislation on climate activists, how individual action is essential and the roles of faith and love in creating sustainable change.  Click here to listen.

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    Come Clean, Keir! Did You Really Disparage ‘Tree-Huggers?’

    12 July 2023 /

    Tree Hugging has a long venerated past of protest and environmental protection. Is the Labour Leader completely ignorant of it?

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    Is “longtermism” the cure or the sickness?

    5 October 2022

    The King’s Speech

    21 December 2022
    A still from the film Avatar 2.

    Avatar 2 should make us completely rethink our relationship with the planet

    21 December 2022
  • Writings

    Time’s up! Green surge in the East alarms the old parties

    26 May 2023 /

    A Green activist savours the party’s recent electoral success, looks at some reasons for it, and looks forward to the next general election.

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    A still from the film Avatar 2.

    Avatar 2 should make us completely rethink our relationship with the planet

    21 December 2022

    Biodiversity: Targets, Optimism, and Lies

    21 December 2022

    The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority

    8 May 2023
  • Writings

    Time to access our superpower

    12 May 2023 /

    In the wake of 4 May’s breakthrough Council results, truthfulness from us on the mismatch with incipient climate breakdown will be more powerful than ever. Rupert Read from GreensCAN explores.

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    ‘Stubborn Optimism’ Will Pave the Way to Climate Disaster

    5 December 2022

    UEA humanities cuts reflect inability of academia to confront climate crisis

    10 August 2023

    Mourn and organise: On the power of truth in a world awash with lies

    21 December 2022
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    Writings

    Who Voted For This, Liz?

    5 October 2022 /

    On 6 September, Liz Truss officially became the Prime Minister, having won the Conservative leadership election that followed Boris Johnson’s resignation. Since then, her administration has pushed through extremely radical, untested, and damaging policies that were not included in the 2019 manifesto. Truss of course did not become Prime Minister at a general election. She doesn’t have millions of supporters around the country. She won the Conservative Leadership bid with 81,326 votes. Just 81,326 in this country have cast a vote for Truss. That’s not even enough people to fill Twickenham and represents 0.12% of the population. We have to ask ourselves; who voted for this? By what authority is…

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    Image of a sunset from space

    Is “longtermism” the cure or the sickness?

    5 October 2022

    People know time’s up for a safe climate. What’s next?

    19 July 2023

    Time’s up! Green surge in the East alarms the old parties

    26 May 2023
  • Writings

    Why Insulate Britain needs a more positive strategy

    22 September 2021 /

    Extinction Rebellion (XR) worked. From its launch to the end of the first Rebellion in April 2019, which precipitated meetings with the Government and its subsequent climate emergency declaration, the strategy proved to be successful. Climate-consciousness in the UK was raised, permanently – there was no going back. And yet, XR also didn’t work – in the sense that our country is still emitting deadly pollution like there’s no tomorrow, with efforts to adapt to the effects of the climate crisis nowhere to be seen. An even more radical ‘radical flank’ XR was formed as a ‘radical flank’ to existing eco-organisations, but this has evidently reached a limit. So what…

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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

    1 September 2023

    Time to access our superpower

    12 May 2023

    Paris is dead: Among those who comprehend what is happening, the climate debate has moved on

    24 August 2023
  • Writings

    The Politics of Paradox

    4 July 2021 /

    Extinction Rebellion (XR) has had a permanent transformational effect on the place of climate and nature in British politics and society, and beyond. XR will continue to play an important role: radical non-violent direct action (NVDA) is effective at pressuring government and corporations, but so far the movement hasn’t mobilised masses of people as is required to force systemic change. The percentage of the population it has mobilised is far less than that recommended by social change theorist Erica Chenoweth. XR has successfully set the scene, which now needs filling by a substantially larger mobilisation. We explore here how this might be achieved. Political parties that are serious about learning…

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    People know time’s up for a safe climate. What’s next?

    19 July 2023

    UEA humanities cuts reflect inability of academia to confront climate crisis

    10 August 2023

    Come Clean, Keir! Did You Really Disparage ‘Tree-Huggers?’

    12 July 2023
  • Writings

    Post-Brexit Environmental Principles: Government and risky business

    4 July 2021 /

    The UK Government recently carried out a consultation on its Statement of Environmental Principles. The Statement will have legal status through being referred to in the Environment Bill, still slowly making its way through Parliament and now in the House of Lords. This Bill is supposed to repair the damage done by Brexit pulling the UK out of the shared EU arrangements for environmental protection. One might think that the issue of risk – and particularly the risk of “low probability, high impact” events would have shot up the Government’s agenda as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here is an event which few predicted and yet the possibility of such…

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    Is “longtermism” the cure or the sickness?

    5 October 2022

    Time to access our superpower

    12 May 2023

    Why Scotland must get real on climate crisis

    26 August 2023
  • Writings

    A new way of taking on the Murdoch empire

    25 September 2020 /

    I’ve launched a new ‘campaign’ to double-down on the consumer boycott of Murdoch papers that many of us have been participating in ever since Wapping. I am suggesting that it isn’t enough to not buy Murdoch’s media-products. We need also, those of us to whom this is relevant, to not buy into them: i.e. we need to stop being sources for them… I’ve made this gambit initially by myself. I hope others will come on board with me. Some already have; but many more will be needed if this campaign is to win. And it’s a hard ask. Writers are afraid of being black-listed. Activists are afraid of losing even…

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    Time to access our superpower

    12 May 2023
    Greenpeace protesters at the Conservative Party conference.

    Who Voted For This, Liz?

    5 October 2022

    The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority

    8 May 2023
  • Writings

    Another Brexit is possible

    19 December 2019 /

    With the Tory landslide, Brexit is bound to finally happen. Therefore what matters is making it as good, or as least bad as possible. The argument is finally settled; it will be pretty pointless to recriminate, completely pointless to try to pretend we can still Remain in the EU and (for the foreseeable future) both dangerous and pointless to fantasise about rejoining it. We need to get used to the UK ‘going its own way’ for a long time to come. This will, for a while, probably be very bad… See here and here if you need convincing on why. What this hard-Brexit hard-Right government will do is seek to…

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    Time’s up! Green surge in the East alarms the old parties

    26 May 2023

    Time to access our superpower

    12 May 2023

    When time is not on our side, can we afford to keep the same strategy?

    2 March 2023
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