This article was first published on The Guardian. Like most Greens, I typically jump at opportunities to go on air. Pretty much any opportunity: BBC national radio, BBC TV, Channel 4, Sky – I’ve done them all over the years,…
This article was first published on Green World. Green World, like the Green Party itself, has been ahead of the curve on so many issues. Possibly the most important issue of them all is the climate crisis. But we have…
This article was first published on Medium. A few years ago, I lost a very close friend. His name was Matt. I found this loss an appalling and bewildering experience, in part because I’d never lost anyone as close. I’d…
By Victor Anderson and Rupert Read. This article was first published on Medium. The Precautionary Principle (PP) aims to ensure a high level of environmental protection through preventative decision-taking in the case of risk and particularly of uncertainty. It is…
This article was first published in The Ecologist. A swathe of Ecologist articles have recently considered various different aspects of the case against GM crops. The purpose of the current article is slightly different. It is to take a step…
This article was first published on Medium. I had a chastening experience the other day. I went to my local municipal dump (aka ‘the recycling centre’), to recycle (or, as it turned out: to dump…) some old carpets that had…
This article was first published in The London Economic. This winter, now finally ending, has seen disturbing early signs of the Earth’s climate starting perhaps to go out of control. The fierce cold snap in the UK occurred because the…
By Rupert Read and Bennet Francis. This article was first published in The London Economic. It’s time we faced up to reality: humanity is almost certainly going to have to learn to live in a world that has been radically…
This article was first published on Medium. “The way you use the word “God” does not show who you mean, but what you mean”. – Ludwig Wittgenstein. Religion is and always has been much more and much other than just g/God, and…
This article was first published on Open Democracy. For those tens of millions of us who have been watching the extraordinary Blue Planet II, the final programme in the series (which looked at the human-caused threats facing the seas) may…
This article was first published on Medium. The think tank I chair, Green House published a report, in which I was a prominent author, in favour of the ‘Progressive Alliance’ concept, last year. A year on, and it is clear…
By Brian Heatley, Molly Scott-Cato and Rupert Read. This article was first published in The Ecologist. Introduction: the big picture Green politics starts from the realities we now find ourselves in. Human beings are changing the planet in fundamental ways…