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Rupert Read
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Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy | Author, WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS and TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION | Home-grown dissident | Free thinker | Earthling.
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In a special @newscientist #COP30 podcast episode, I join @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org of @carbonbrief.org to assess progress since Paris and whether COP is fit for purpose.

It is clear we need adaptation NOW!

Listen here:
www.newscientist.com/podcasts/

#cop30 #adaptation #safer #climatechange
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I'll be giving the keynote speech at this year's @greenchristian.org.uk conference on November 15th in #Peterborough. I'll be talking about adaptation and our #SAFER campaign. Reserve a spot via the link. All welcome.

greenchristian.org.uk/2025-annual-...
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
For too long, climate adaptation has been the unmentionable. But no one can credibly pretend any longer that we don't need to take it seriously.

Check out our new report, with @theglaciertrust.bsky.social - We Need to Talk About Adaptation.

climatemajorityproject.com/safer-2/
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I pay tribute to Joanna Macy, who died in July, in the latest issue of permaculturemag.bsky.social. She was one of the most important ecological and spiritual teachers of our times (as well as my former teacher and friend).

www.permaculture.co.uk/issue/winter...
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Delighted to be keynote speaker at this year's @greenchristian.org.uk conference on November 15th in #Peterborough. I'll be talking about adaptation and our #SAFER campaign. Reserve a spot via the link. All welcome.

greenchristian.org.uk/2025-annual-...
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘We Need To Talk About Adaptation!’ We've got some amazing speakers for our breakfast webinar on Tuesday, including @carolinelucas.bsky.social and Sara Mia from @retrofitbh.bsky.social. Join us!

🗓️ 28 Oct | 8:15–9:45am | Online

Reserve a spot 👇

www.tickettailor.com/events/clima...
October 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Adaptation is no longer optional, it's vital. Join us online on Tuesday to discuss our new #SAFER report on UK adaptation.

🗓️ 28 Oct | 8:15–9:45am | Online

Reserve a spot 👇

www.tickettailor.com/events/clima...
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“There is a deep way in which a more communal orientation towards life is prevalent in eastern cultures. Without that context, practises of meditation and mindfulness come to seem merely like tools for individual self-development.”

Read more insight from me: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I joined more than 100 people at the weekend supporting Caroline Topping's campaign to be Norfolk & Suffolk Mayor and Annette Dunning's campaign to be our next Green MP (I'm on the end on the right).
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Jon Alexander (at the Conduit Club): What we need is less outrage-and-optimism than honesty-and-agency…
#Climate
October 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
With Caroline Lucas at the Conduit Club, talking about how to save democracy - by making action climate popular. By starting with where people are: not in abstractions, but in collaborative agency. On climate impacts and in cost of living - which are >the same fight<.
#Safer
October 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A wonderful big day out with Eastern Green Party Mayoral candidate Caroline Topping and a hundred other Greens in north Ipswich.
October 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
"The ‘good’ guys are all on their own, out for themselves without being able to trust a single soul."

Are you watching The Celebrity #Traitors? Here's why I won't watch be watching the programme ever again.

#CelebrityTraitors

rupertread.net/writings/202...
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"I’ve just returned from our largest-ever #GreenParty Conference – and the excitement was palpable."

We now stand at a crossroads. Read my thoughts on which way the Party should be turning 👇

rupertsreads.substack.com/p/from-elect...
October 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Delighted to be featured in this series on 'Thrutopian Resilience' by Chris Johnstone. Do check it out via the link below.

collegeofwellbeing.com/thrutopian-r...
October 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It was a pleasure to interview Asad Rehman, new chief executive of Friends of the Earth UK, about his take on climate adaptation, for @climatemajority.bsky.social forthcoming report 'We need to talk about adaptation'. Watch this space for the results!

#gpconf #adaptation #safer
October 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is the Red Line For Palestine demonstration that I just took part in a at #gpconf. 1000 people holding up a phenomenally long red silken banner.

#redlineforpalestine #GreenPartyConference #solidarity
October 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Earlier today, I chaired a panel on climate emergency resilience with Bob Ward and Anna Hollyman at @GreenPartyConf where Bob poignantly remarked:

"The alternative to adaptation is suffering"

#safer #greenparty #panel #ClimateSolutions #gpconf
October 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Beautiful to hear and see Green Deputy Leader Mothin Ali’s voice cracking as he relates his personal family experiences with poverty and the poverty he sees as a Councillor. #gpconf
October 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Watching Zack Polanski’s Leader’s Speech at Green Party Conference in Bournemouth.
#gpconf
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
On my way to #GPConf (to chair a panel on climate adaptation):
October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Looking forward to chairing this panel on #adaptation at the #GreenParty Autumn Conference in Bournemouth on Saturday (Oct 4th).
September 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Oh dear… look whose name is missing from the signatures here…
‘Your Party’ are clearly absolutely riven by factional dispute. The Zarah vs Jeremy fight has just gone viral.

It’s true People’s Front of Judea vs Judean People’s Front stuff.
(At the worst possible time for the actual Palestine.)
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Watch: "Imagine the future that you would actually run towards, something that makes your heart sing."

We joined Nathalie Nahai to talk about our Transformative Adaptation book, in which @mandascott.bsky.social calls for people to imagine 'thrutopias'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ic7...
September 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
DIARY DATE: I’ll be taking part in a very interesting and relevant debate on ‘Steering Humanity through #AI & #Climate Risk’ on November 22 from 2:30 to 4pm at The Forum in #Norwich.

You can find out further details and booking information here: actionnetwork.org/events/steer...
September 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM