This article orginally appeared on Scientists Warning. “…there’s a very real possibility that the latter part of the lives of most of you in this room will be grim or non-existent.” It wasn’t exactly the Baz Luhrmann-style address many of…
By Rupert Read and Joseph Eastoe. This article originally appeared in Byline Times. ‘Environmental’ awareness has exploded in recent years. A previously marginalised movement and an under-acknowledged debate was at last thrust to the forefront through Greta Thunberg and her…
This article first appeared on Medium. Have you heard about the frogs who will doze till they die in water that is gradually heated up? You probably have. One place you may have heard about it is as a metaphor…
This article originally appeared in the Eastern Daily Press. The G7 group of rich countries’ leaders is meeting in Cornwall. Why care what’s happening with some bigwigs at the other end of this country? It’s true that, just as East…
By Skeena Rathor and Rupert Read. This article originally appeared in Permaculture. “This then is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed – to liberate themselves and their oppressor as well. The oppressors who oppress, exploit and rape…
This article was first published by The Dark Mountain Project. Our planetary home is haunted by a spectre, one becoming more incarnate by the day: the spectre of extinction. What would it mean, to rebel against this ‘fate’? To rebel…
This article first appeared in The New European. Many of you will have dedicated yourselves tirelessly to the determined campaign to try to keep Britain in the EU. But it is on what we do in response to this climate…
This article was first published in Green World. 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…
This article was first published in Byline Times. 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…
This article first appeared on Byline Times. The climate and ecological emergency consuming the world, usually, defies the imagination. It is so life-altering yet so gradual – exploiting the human tendency to ignore things that are radically outside our own…
This letter was first published by Resilience. When I heard that Culture Declares emergency was organising a series of ‘Letters to Power’, I thought to myself: “Rupert, you should probably write one”. You see, I have spent much of my…
By Rupert Read and Roc Sandford. This article originally appeared as a guest post on Reuters Breaking Views. Greenhouse gas jargon has become a common part of corporate life. Even the most detached executive will have an idea of so-called…