This statement was published on Writers Rebel. May I start with one point of law. I wish to dispute the claim by the Prosecution that our action does not meet the criterion of addressing an ‘imminent’ threat to life. It…
This article was originally published in The Independent. Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, brave campaigning journalists, have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Many congratulations to them. They are worthy winners of the prize. However, I can’t help thinking that…
By Tina Rothery and Rupert Read. This article originally appeared on Brave New Europe. COP26 is critical to human history. The summit, originally scheduled for 2020, was supposed to be the most important COP since the achievement of the Paris…
This article originally appeared on Euro News. With just one month to go until COP26, all eyes are on the world’s politicians. With expectations so high though, can our political leaders face up to their responsibilities? Or will their failure…
This article first appeared in the Eastern Daily Press. Yes, you read that headline right. I am hoping for a bad outcome from November’s global climate conference, hosted here in the UK; because, at this point, that is the best…
This article first appeared on Green World. 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…
This article first appeared in The Independent. With each fresh environmental disaster, another cohort of society realises for the first time the trouble we’re in. Increasingly, they understand that nobody – least of all, the government – is coming to…
By Laura Baldwin and Rupert Read. This article originally appeared on Green World. 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…
By Victor Anderson and Rupert Read. This article first appeared on Medium. 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,…
By Rupert Read and Aseem Shrivastava. This essay originally appeared in Open. For more than a generation of economic globalisation, to turn the old adage on its head, it seemed to many that “wealth is health”. In the bargain, as everything,…
This blog was written for Polity Books. Whereas there was a period at the start of the year where some ‘climate experts’ were criticising some of us for discussing how to prepare for or soften potential societal breakdown due to…
This article first appeared on Writers Rebel. Walking along the street the other day, I overheard a fragment of a conversation. A mother with a pushchair was saying confidently said to her friend, ‘You know me, I’d do anything to…