Co-Director, Climate Majority Project @CMP_voice | Emeritus Philosophy Prof. …I mute people who compose using AI. Find me more often now @rupertread on Substack
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Is THIS civilisation finished? Looks like it. But what comes next? That’s where you come in…
My new short film OUT OF THE ASHES, written by me & @frannyarmstrong and directed by @ageofstupid animation director Martyn Pick.
Please watch and RT!
#Climate #Cop27 #RealityCheck
Great to be invited on the @ClimateGENN #podcast to discuss our new #Climate Popularism report. Among other things, we look at the gap between public concern about climate change and the way climate policy is communicated.
genn.cc/climate-popularism-c…
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Imagine what life would be like today if the majority had been apathetic in WW2! Let's not allow the unthinkable- a future determined by climate stupidity. History shows the critical need for a strategic, adaptive approach to defend ourselves from collapse
youtube.com/watch?v=-pMPAZnY…
This is now where we are at.
Thanks, AI.
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Check out darkmountainproject.substack… to understand more about what the alternative might look like.
Helpful prompt about what to do if the internet goes down due to a global cyberattack/AI swarm.
This seems less insane with every passing day.
I also bought myself the SAS Survival Guide, which is essentially a bush manual for almost every imaginable outcome.
Money
- Keep cash at home, about two to four weeks of essentials, in small bills.
- Write down your bank, credit card and insurance account details and phone numbers on paper.
Information and contacts
- Print a contact list with family, close friends, neighbors, doctors and the kids’ school.
- Agree on a family meeting point and plan in case phones are down, such as “if we can’t reach each other, meet at X by Y time.”
- Export and print or save offline anything business-critical.
- Download offline maps
- Keep paper copies of passports, IDs, insurance cards and prescriptions.
Communication
- Get a battery or hand-crank AM/FM/NOAA radio, which will be your main news source.
- Consider a pair of walkie-talkies or GMRS radios for the family.
- Keep a landline-style backup in mind. Most “landlines” now run over the internet, so don’t count on yours.
Power
- Keep power banks charged, plus a solar charger or a larger portable power station.
- Have flashlights, headlamps and spare batteries.
Water and food (aim for 2 weeks)
- Store about 1 gallon of water per person per day. In a high-rise this matters most, because building water pumps need electricity.
- Stock shelf-stable food the kids will actually eat, plus a manual can opener.
- Keep a camping stove with fuel for outdoor or ventilated use only, or no-cook foods.
Health
- Keep at least a 30-day supply of any prescriptions.
- Have a first aid kit, OTC basics like pain relievers in children’s doses, and hygiene supplies.
Home and offline life
- Learn how to manually open anything electronic, such as smart locks and the building’s garage or entry.
- Keep a paper copy of the building’s emergency procedures and super’s number.
- Download offline entertainment and learning material for the kids: books, games, art supplies.
- Get to know a few neighbors, since local community becomes your network fast.
Digital hygiene (helps before and after)
- Back up photos and documents to an external drive kept offline.
- Use strong, unique passwords with 2FA, and keep printed recovery codes for key accounts.
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they’re calling it “Black October” and i don’t think people realize how serious this is
in the last 48 hours there have been over 27 major cybersecurity incidents. not in a month. not in a week. in 48 hours
any ONE of these would normally be the biggest story of the year
PHP: critical vulnerability in the software running 80% of the web. severity 9.2 out of 10
Node.js: high-severity flaw letting attackers take over servers remotely. affects versions 22, 24, and 26
Java: also compromised. three of the most used programming languages on earth hit at the same time
GitLab: a perfect 10 out of 10 severity hole in every version since 2014
Railway: hosting platform compromised. API keys for OpenAI, Claude, Stripe potentially exposed
Signal: a bug that could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker’s keys and planted backdoors on websites
LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
and that’s not even half the list
thousands of AI agent swarms are reportedly scanning and attacking vulnerable servers right now. automated. around the clock
security researchers are saying this might be the early stages of a global cyber incident that nobody fully understands yet
if you run a website, use cloud services, store API keys on hosting platforms, or use any software built on PHP, Node.js, or Java you are potentially affected
update everything. rotate your API keys. change your passwords on critical services. enable 2FA everywhere you haven’t already
this is not a normal week on the internet. this is something different
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Up here in the English Peak District it is pretty wet, hence the reservoirs
But this is what Ladybower looks like now - nearly two-thirds of the way through Autumn
This bodes very badly for summer 2027
Standpipes in the street would be no surprise
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c64g…
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And here it is in print in this week’s mag! Pick up a copy
🟢 I've written this week's @NewStatesman Politics Column on the Greens' pledge to 'replace Labour' which, though fitting for the moment, was clearly unsustainable.
The problem with this promise might not have been its ambition, but the assumption that the Greens were ready to fulfil it. Events over the past three weeks - the fall out from the Zionism is Racism motion and the Holborn and St Pancras by-election - could all be seen as evidence of that.
And now, exclusive polling by @Moreincommon_ and shared with the NS shows Polanski's personal approval his personal net approval rating has hit a low of -35 per cent and one in four people now think the party has a serious anti-Semitism problem. Some polls have the Greens on 7 per cent, lower than before Polanski was elected.
So, where does the party go next? With Andy Burnham as prime minister, Polanski & the Greens' strategy can no longer be exclusively about criticising an unpopular Labour government - it will need to be about convincing voters they are a realistic alternative. There are figures within the party who are beginning to do this thinking. As several sources told me, for the first time Green factions are likely to form.
Read more online & in this week's magazine:
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I’m so disappointed.
Last year, Andy Burnham stood alongside Massive Attack and called the #FossilFuelTreaty a “lifeline.”
He urged governments to end coal, oil and gas expansion and hold polluters accountable.
Yesterday, his government approved a new North Sea gas field. 🧵
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I wrote to the Government with cross-party MPs last night opposing this decision.
Rosebank and Jackdaw won’t cut bills they'll just boost profits of fossil fuel giants.
If every country pursues its own deluded self interest the costs of climate breakdown will be unbearable.
Energy Secretary @Miatsf has agreed that the regulator can grant consent for gas to be produced at the licensed Jackdaw field.
Gas from Jackdaw is expected to start reaching British homes and businesses as early as the end of this month.
ALT Jackdaw gas field gets green light to begin production
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You can see how close things are below, using an MRP. On the left is the same result as the model in the Standard report - no Green gains in London.
On the right, roughly one in six current Labour voters in London switch to the Greens - and the Greens win ten seats, named below.
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This is a much needed initiative - been very striking over last 12 months that the English left intellectual infrastructure is too oriented on Labour and its Your Party spin out. If Greens aspire to build mass party they need also some spaces to develop thinking.
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It’ll go higher… big driver is fossil fuel prices but that has yet to fully pass through everywhere. And we should expect food prices to start picking up into the new year as El Niño and some poor harvests start to play out.
CPI at highest annual rate since October 2025.
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.5% in the 12 months to September 2026, up from 3.1% the previous month.
Read more➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/inflation…
ALT Rotated bar chart showing transport, particularly motor fuels, made the largest upward contribution to the change in CPI annual inflation.
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Two years ago - alongside @ZackPolanski, Carne Ross & other Green colleagues - I heard an early version of CLIMATE POPULARISM
Glad to see how @CarolineLucas & @GreenRupertRead have brought this new climate agenda to fruition.
WATCH youtu.be/Px_02snTrkg
#EcoPopulism
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AS FEARED: "The world’s clouds are changing. They are covering less overall area and are dimming, with the effect that they reflect less solar radiation back into space. This increase in solar absorption is a major cause of the accelerating warming we are now experiencing."
ALT To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.
Great piece by Tom Harris on cloud feedback
The world's cloud cover is reducing, which makes the planet hotter
This may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600ppm
Very, very, scary
substack.com/home/post/p-220…
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🟢 I've written this week's @NewStatesman Politics Column on the Greens' pledge to 'replace Labour' which, though fitting for the moment, was clearly unsustainable.
The problem with this promise might not have been its ambition, but the assumption that the Greens were ready to fulfil it. Events over the past three weeks - the fall out from the Zionism is Racism motion and the Holborn and St Pancras by-election - could all be seen as evidence of that.
And now, exclusive polling by @Moreincommon_ and shared with the NS shows Polanski's personal approval his personal net approval rating has hit a low of -35 per cent and one in four people now think the party has a serious anti-Semitism problem. Some polls have the Greens on 7 per cent, lower than before Polanski was elected.
So, where does the party go next? With Andy Burnham as prime minister, Polanski & the Greens' strategy can no longer be exclusively about criticising an unpopular Labour government - it will need to be about convincing voters they are a realistic alternative. There are figures within the party who are beginning to do this thinking. As several sources told me, for the first time Green factions are likely to form.
Read more online & in this week's magazine:
We need a #Thrutopian attitude to our current plight - a way of getting through the awful situation we are in. As author, podcaster and Thrutopian teacher Manda Scott says, our new Climate Popularism report shares examples of how to do that. Do give it a read.
climatemajorityproject.com
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Shaming that our Foreign Secretary had truck with Israel's stab at shutting down his country's East Jerusalem consulate, but things could have turned out a lot worse. Had the Brits shut up shop entirely in illegally occupied-by-Israel East Jerusalem - which is what Bibi's bullyboys demanded - Jewish settlers would have stolen the consulate in a flash, the British owned site declared eternally Israel's and evicted British consular refugees refused any right to return. As it is - crucially - Bibi has conceded that a handful of British staff remain at the consulate's barricades and that Britain keeps the land deeds, and settler bulldozers remain at bay. At least until he wins the upcoming election.
Sadly, the insane level of falsehood and nastiness in this tweet is pretty representative of the responses received by myself, Peter T, Caroline etc over this issue.
I wonder if the people writing these vicious things actually believe that they are helping their cause? The only way they can is if they believe that bullying works.
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It’s pretty safe to say that when one has alienated the likes of Aaron Bastani, George Monbiot and Peter Tatchell (not to mention Caroline Lucas, & all the Green MPs elected in 2024), as the ‘Zionism is Racism’ has succeeded (sic) in doing, then one has lost the public debate:
