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    Cricket! So It’s Come To This? | BBC Radio 4

    29 June 2023 /

    Rupert Read was interviewed on 28/06/23 on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight about the launch of the Climate Majority Project.

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  • Writings

    The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority

    8 May 2023 /

    Governments show time and again they won’t deliver adequate climate solutions of their own accord. If the world is ever going to get serious on climate, it will be because a mass movement of citizen action insists on it. 

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    “Adversity is the first path to truth”: How climate grief could be the making of us

    10 October 2022

    The King’s Speech

    21 December 2022
    Greenpeace protesters at the Conservative Party conference.

    Who Voted For This, Liz?

    5 October 2022
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    What is the Climate Majority Project? | Sky News

    24 April 2023 /

    "The knowledge of how bad the crisis is, is no longer confined to a small minority... I think what a lot of people want is to be shown how to take action that is actually effective in starting to change things on the ground, more positive action."

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    Tufton Street Speech as part of The Big One protests in London

    22 April 2023 /

    “I want to talk to you for a few minutes about climate denial and the struggle against it …” My full speech outside the UK climate denial HQ in Tufton Street on April 21st, where I was reunited with fellow members of the Tufton Three.

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  • Just Stop Oil protesters glued themselves to the wall of the National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers on 14 October 2022. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian
    Writings

    Will disruptive action help save the planet?

    30 October 2022 /

    Is there any point throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting and mashed potato at a Monet? Two activists give their views

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    “Adversity is the first path to truth”: How climate grief could be the making of us

    10 October 2022

    “Adversity is the first path to truth”: How climate grief could be the making of us

    29 June 2023

    The Power of the Climate Majority: Taking Action for a Sustainable Future

    21 July 2023
  • Writings

    Climate change activism is no longer enough – it’s time to become ‘doists’

    13 August 2022 /

    It’s too late to wait for governments – we need to start acting, in the communities where we live, in the places where we work, to make ourselves resilient

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    The King’s Speech

    21 December 2022

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

    21 December 2022

    The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority

    8 May 2023
  • Writings

    There should be no more Cop climate summits. We need an alternative that could actually work

    4 December 2021 /

    Our civilisation is launching out at full pelt over a cliff. What happened recently in Glasgow – the creation of a super-leaky, near-corrupt climate market; the pledge to come back next year with better promises on emissions reduction; the weird verbal diarrhoea of “phasing down” coal – has made no difference to that fact. Our “leaders” have failed us. Some people, many of whom should know better, have set aside the failure (because, in truth, that’s what it was) of this year’s talks with assurances that we can “come back next year and try again”. My response is that it will be the same old thing – they’ve had 26…

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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

    Biodiversity: Targets, Optimism, and Lies

    21 December 2022

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

    12 July 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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    Greenpeace protesters at the Conservative Party conference.

    Who Voted For This, Liz?

    5 October 2022

    ALTERNATIVES: HOW TO END OUR ADDICTION TO OIL AND GAS

    22 July 2023

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

    2 March 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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    Just Stop Oil protesters glued themselves to the wall of the National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers on 14 October 2022. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

    Will disruptive action help save the planet?

    30 October 2022

    The King’s Speech

    21 December 2022

    “Adversity is the first path to truth”: How climate grief could be the making of us

    10 October 2022
  • Writings

    I’m Boycotting Murdoch Until Climate Truth is Front Page News

    21 September 2020 /

    There’s nothing more reckless than denying the risk that our civilisation faces from the changes we are rapidly bringing about in our ecosystems and atmosphere. And there’s nothing more irresponsible than the powerful lashing out at the powerless when the powerless dare to call out that recklessness. “This is censorship of a free press” was the cry of outrage from the power elite against the blockading of Rupert Murdoch’s printworks, at the height of Extinction Rebellion’s actions recently. But some perspective is desperately needed. What XR did was to delay or block some print newspapers for oneday – to make the point that it believes the press isn’t free. It…

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    ‘Stubborn Optimism’ Will Pave the Way to Climate Disaster

    5 December 2022
    A still from the film Avatar 2.

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

    21 December 2022

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

    24 August 2023
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