By Helena Farstad and Rupert Read A new year begins. But saying ‘Happy New Year’ has sometimes felt slightly hollow to us, in 2024. Because, though most people have yet to realise it, everything changed in 2023; and not in a good way. We are referring to the utterly unprecedented temperature spike last year, probably […]
“Insurance faces an existential risk as the world increasingly becomes uninsurable. An uninsurable world has, by definition, no place for the insurance industry.” Read through this interview to understand why insurance has a critical role to play in advocating policy change and supporting climate initiatives, and why its shift to long-term logic is needed for
“To keep the world insurable, the climate crisis needs to be rapidly slowed” | Illuminem Read More »
The biggest achievement of 28 years of COP has been a toothless statement of the obvious basic truth that we need to transition away from fossil fuels. This opinion piece talks about why “the CoP system needs to end and all the energy that gets pointlessly poured into it needs to get invested instead into
“The COP28 deal leaves the highway to climate hell wide open. Citizens are going to have to mobilise as never before over the coming years if that trajectory is to shift.” Read this compilation of opinion pieces to understand why. Hint: the transition away from fossil fuels that COP28 called for is limited to the
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In this Business Green article, Rupert discusses the urgency required by business leaders to lobby for a proper science-based policy and regulatory environment in order to fully tackle climate change, especially in the wake of another wasted CoP. He argues: Read more here. A fuller, un-paywalled article written by Rupert & Helena will appear in
Businesses need to admit they can’t go green without help | Business Green Read More »
WE need to take action on climate change. WE need a revolution. WE need to unite and tackle the problem. Etc. But who is this “we”? Politicians and campaigners love to invoke it. It has powerful rhetorical force. But does this confusing “we” give us any sense of what each of us can actually fo? Is it
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“Everybody cares about their children having a decent life, and that means they care about their grandchildren and their great grandchildren and their great, great grandchildren having a decent life. “So this is why perhaps this can be a hopeful moment that the kind of shift that we’re talking about here, which is very, very
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“The record of Conservatives and Labour on the climate ranges from dangerous to inadequate. What is needed is a new democratic alliance, drawing together people of all classes and identities who recognise the need for profound change in our political economy and social relations.”Read this bold article for insight into why we must move beyond
“While seeing might be believing, until you’ve actually experienced a climate disaster, it’s still difficult to really comprehend – even for climate activists.” Former academic Rupert Read’s recent brush with a devastating storm has made him even more determined to dedicate his life to rousing the climate majority. Continue reading here.
Everyone and everywhere is now on the climate frontline | Resilience Read More »
“Teaching and research agendas need to be recentred away from the merely human. Accomplishing this recentring will be extremely difficult for academics, for it runs counter to their human and social privilege. In light of this, academics should consider consciously quitting.” Read these 16 theses on the failing academic system to explore the possibilities of
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