By Rupert Read and Dario Kenner. This article was first published in Open Democracy. It is important to re-state the truth: Our very survival as a species may now be under threat. A mass of other species have already been…
By Rupert Read and Frank Scavelli. This article was first published in Common Dreams. On November 14th, the New York Times published an article which discussed the Green New Deal as proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders, claiming to speak for…
By Jenny Jones, Victor Anderson and Rupert Read. This article was first published in Open Democracy. It often feels like the media have given us wall-to-wall coverage of every single aspect of Brexit. But there is a key issue which…
This article was first published on Medium. The Supreme Court’s definitive demolition of the PM’s illegal prorogation of Parliament means that Parliament will now return with immediate effect. If Boris Johnson does not do the decent thing and resign with…
This article was first published on Medium. Boris Johnson’s planned suspension of parliament has highlighted just how fragile and unfit for purpose Britain’s ‘democratic’ structures are. The decision to prorogue parliament for 5 weeks – the longest prorogation since 1945…
By Molly Scott Cato MEP and Rupert Read. This article was first published in Green World. The Amazon rainforest is burning. Brazil has had more than 72,000 fire outbreaks so far this year, an 84 per cent increase on the…
This article was first published on The Conversation. Death certificates and commemorative plaques aren’t something you’d normally associate with a glacier. But that is exactly how Iceland recently mourned the loss of 700-year-old Okjökull, the first of its major glaciers…
This article first appeared on Medium. Telling the truth Extinction Rebellion’s (XR’s) first demand is for the Government to tell the whole truth about the gravity of the climate and ecological emergency. The time is now because everything is not…
This article was first published on Medium. Our October Rebellion needs to be bigger than April’s was. Way bigger. Because this time, it has to be about not just getting verbal concessions from power, pious declarations of climate and ecological…
This article was first published on Medium. The past month has witnessed an unprecedented turnaround of public opinion on the climate and ecological emergencies. When the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ broke out in mid-April, the media turned its gaze with almost unremitting…
This article was first published in Research. Naomi Klein writes in her call-to-arms book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the climate, that there are two types of climate change denial holding back effective action to protect our planet: denial of…
By Rupert Read, John Foster and Jem Bendell. This article was first published in The Ecologist. As a group of British academics and others who think and write about dangerous anthropogenic climate change, we have been impressed by your new…