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Labour’s Vision is Walking Blind Without this 6th Mission: Step forward, climate-adaptation
This is a big week for Britain’s new Labour Government: PM Starmer is hoping to win back some of the electorate he has so swiftly lost by relaunching the Government’s ruling five missions, by which they wish to be judged. Specifically, by introducing ‘measurable milestones’ which his government aims to achieve over the coming years. He hopes that doing so will give solidity to Labour’s vision for the future in a way that resonates with voters.
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How We Adapt to Climate Collapse: Transformative Adaptation with Rupert Read and Manda Scott
Transformative Adaptation (TrAd) helps us to transform our civilisation to be in readiness for the future and makes life worth living. To buy the book, Transformative Adaptation – Another world is still just possible, click here.
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This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire – and what lies beyond
This Civilisation is Finished is a book co-authored by Rupert Read and Samuel Alexander. It is published by the Simplicity Institute. Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. Unless humanity does something beautiful and unprecedented, the ending of industrial civilisation will take the form of collapse, which could mean a harrowing die-off of billions of people. This book is…
