How We Can All Work to Make a Difference and Keep Each Other #Safer Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas on the Climate Majority Project’s new campaign to make climate impacts a national priority, giving voice to the hidden majority who are waking up to climate reality Byline SupplementJul 10, 2025 When you think about dangerous […]
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Build Back Better? What are we building? Originally Published by Cambridge University Press: 8 September 2023 An updated version incorporating work from SAFER will appear in a subsequent post. Build Back Better. It’s an adage I’m sure you’ve heard by now. Perhaps the comfort of alliteration is the reason it’s been accepted more often than
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Rupert Read calls out the consistent pro-fossil-fuel bias of GBNews… live on GBNews! “Help Me Expose the Corruption and Lies of GBNews” Source – Substack (https://substack.com/@rupertread/p-163772752) – 17-5-2025 I was recently on the infamous GBNews platform to discuss energy bills, and ended up exposing the corruption of the network. Now I need your help
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Climate Majority Project response to the Climate Change Committee’s new report on the state of climate readiness in the UK Yesterday’s CCC report on the UK government’s lack of preparedness for climate breakdown reveals negligence at a historic scale. The report lays bare years of successive Governments’ failure to prepare the UK for the breakdown
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Women from the El Tablon community with cuttings of native plants used to restore the wetlands in the Paluguillo paramo, in Quito, Ecuador; September 2024. Photo by Karen Toro/Reuters The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities by Rupert Read (original article)
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Across Britain, a quiet transformation is happening. It’s not the stereotype of survivalist preppers hoarding beans in bunkers. It’s middle-class professionals – scientists, sustainability experts, teachers, doctors, policy analysts and management consultants who have seen the data and come to a stark conclusion: The systems we rely on for survival are far more fragile than
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By Andrew Hoffman, Rupert Read, Originally published by Resilience.org April 15, 2025 3 Possible Scenarios for What’s Next What does a post-1.5°C world mean for the insurance sector, their customers, investors, and the economy as a whole? This question has suddenly hit the news, as insurers begin to withdraw from some prominent places, and
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Tactics of Just Stop Oil excluded many people.But Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas say they have a ready-made alternative for the “Climate Majority” Rupert Read, who helped launch Extinction Rebellion (XR), has long had doubts about the tactics of climate activists. He pauses halfway through our Zoom call with Caroline Lucas, former Green MP,
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bp’s move ‘back to petroleum’ is further evidence that our economic system needs a redesign I am a serial conscious quitter of bp. I knew it was time to go when a colleague reflected to me: ‘this is hurting your soul now’. I left bp for the second time in 2023 after it became apparent
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As Politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe. By Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read – 7th February 2025 The rubble and wreckage of 12,000 structures reduced to ash; white-suited operatives picking through the possessions of the many thousands more whose lives are ruined. Recent images
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