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    Is climate activism working? | Southbank Centre, London

    12 July 2023 /

    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

    12 July 2023 /

    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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  • Writings

    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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    50 successful years of the Green Party, but the planet can’t wait 50 more

    21 April 2023

    ALTERNATIVES: HOW TO END OUR ADDICTION TO OIL AND GAS

    22 July 2023

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

    21 December 2022
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    Why to encircle a tree with your arms? | Million Tree Pledge

    3 May 2023 /

    I was invited to be guest speaker at the Million Tree Pledge’s Netwalk and Lunch in Brighton.

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    Jen Newall & Rupert Read Discuss the 6th IPCC Synthesis Report | Climate Majority Project

    31 March 2023 /

    I was asked to do an Instagram Live with Jen Newall following the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Synthesis Report.

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    Introducing The Climate Majority Project 

    22 March 2023 /

    We need to have a mass moderate flank to the environmental movement, far bigger than the exciting innovations we saw with the School Strikers and Extinction Rebellion. How will this be done? http://ClimateMajorityProject.Earth/ The good news is that patience with our institutions is at an all time low, and people are hungry for new voices. Greta‘s voice echoed much farther than it could have previously because ears were waiting for it, and XR has broken the taboo on blunt climate truth-telling. Many who’ve long suspected that serious action will come only after the possibility of environmental disaster becomes too obvious to be ignored are poised on the sidelines.

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    Community Climate Action, Transformative Adaptation and the Rise of the Moderate Flank

    5 March 2023 /

    A talk at a student-led symposium, organised by Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School, with a Q&A at the end.

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  • Writings

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

    2 March 2023 /

    As the Green Party turns 50 and Party co-founder Michael Benfield tells the BBC that he thinks the game is up, Rupert Read and Joe Eastoe argue that it is time for the Green Party to take a long, hard, honest look at itself.

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    ‘Stubborn Optimism’ Will Pave the Way to Climate Disaster

    5 December 2022

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

    10 October 2022
    Greenpeace protesters at the Conservative Party conference.

    Who Voted For This, Liz?

    5 October 2022
  • Writings

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

    21 December 2022 /

    This article first appeared on ABC Religion and Ethics. Upon learning that he was about to die, the Swedish-American labour activist and songwriter Joe Hill wrote a telegram to Bill Haywood, the founder of the Industrial Workers of the World. It read: “Goodbye, Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize!” The (para)phrase “don’t mourn, organise” received a boost in popularity when a collection of Hill’s songs were released under the title “Don’t Mourn — Organize!: Songs of the Labour Songwriter Joe Hill”. The phrase was subsequently used by the Boston Globe as the title of an article honouring the American playwright, philosopher, and socialist thinker Howard Zinn when he…

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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

    ‘Stubborn Optimism’ Will Pave the Way to Climate Disaster

    5 December 2022

    Biodiversity: Targets, Optimism, and Lies

    21 December 2022
  • Writings

    The King’s Speech

    21 December 2022 /

    This article first appeared on Brave New Europe. An alternative to the Queen’s traditional Christmas message has been broadcast since 1993 which, more often than not, gives insight into a serious issue. What if in 2022 it wasn’t needed? Eco-philosopher Dr. Rupert Read, urges King Charles to use his massive platform to highlight a critical issue close to his heart. What follows. Drawing frequently on words that he has already publicly spoken, is the speech that Charles III ought to give, in his address to the nation on December 25th. Good afternoon, on this, Christmas Day. Sadly, as many of us have experienced especially in the last few years, there…

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

    21 July 2023
    Greenpeace protesters at the Conservative Party conference.

    Who Voted For This, Liz?

    5 October 2022

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

    29 June 2023
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