
Earth-defender. Emeritus Prof of Philosophy UEA. Also at @greenrupertread, my much larger POLITICAL/PUBLIC account, with much more frequent posting.
Norwich, England
Joined March 2008
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Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
"It's time to speak from the heart as well as the head..."
Love this quote from Jenn Nadel, co-founder of the Global Compassion Coalition, in response to our new @CMP_voice #Climate Popularism report, which is out now. You can read it via the link.
climatemajorityproject.com
Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
Poor Valencia.
>Again!
Climate decline is pitiless.
Strategic adaptation, nature-restoration and determined climate mitigation are urgent.
Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
"At the heart of the report is a proposal for a 'People's Plan for Climate Resilience', built through local citizens' assemblies that feed into a national process of investing earlier in measures that reduce climate risks before crises hits."
@BusinessGreen covered my our Climate Popularism report.
businessgreen.com/news/45374…
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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:
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Couldn't make the breakfast launch of our new #Climate Popularism report on Thursday? You can now watch a recording of the event, hosted by Jon Alexander. Hear from me and my co-author, Caroline Lucas, about why this is so important.
youtube.com/watch?v=Px_02snT…
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"...fit not just for today but for troubled times ahead." - @jonathonporritt, author and campaigner.
We've had some great feedback on our @CMP_voice #Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. You can read it via the link below.
climatemajorityproject.com
Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
"...Caroline Lucas and the green philosopher Rupert Read make the case for “eco-popularism” rather than eco-populism: a way of thinking that doesn’t try to hotwire its way into people’s emotional circuitry with invigorating binaries, but, rather, describes actions that would genuinely change lives for the better, and therefore be popular."
Guardian columnist, Zoe Williams, mentions our new report in her latest piece.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
This kind of thing should simply be banned. That would be an incredibly cheap, effective way of improving our society.
Nuclear's revolving doors exposed by @PrivateEyeNews "...Austin is now working for the company she was previously negotiating with as a civil servant. Those negotiations went rather well for Sizewell C's private shareholders...the taxpayer who will pick up the bill if costs grow"
Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
New in The Guardian: "The party’s former leader Caroline Lucas and the longstanding Green activist Rupert Read are about to publish a mini-manifesto titled Climate Popularism: a guide to “breaking the grip of rightwing populism through a new politics of crisis resilience”, to be formally launched on 15 October." 🧵
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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TOMORROW (15th): Join me and @CarolineLucas for the online breakfast launch of our #Climate Popularism report. Make yourself some toast, grab a coffee and come discuss how we can forge a positive, sustainable future and make our communities safer. More details via the link.
rupertsreads.substack.com/p/…
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Heads-up.
Welcome to the future:
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigeration systems across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls.
According to BFMTV, the attack began overnight from Sunday into Monday, targeting older versions of refrigeration-control software supplied by Danish company Danfoss.
The attackers allegedly exploited the systems’ defrosting function, forcing refrigeration equipment to heat continuously instead of keeping products cold. Temperatures were reportedly set as high as 50°C, destroying entire stocks of food within hours.
Several major supermarket chains have been affected, including Intermarché, Super U and E.Leclerc. Metro stores and independent businesses, including butcher shops also have been impacted.
Around 150 Intermarché stores are reportedly affected, according to industry sources cited by BFMTV. The full number of affected locations remains unclear.
The financial damage is already significant. In Haguenau, Alsace, an Intermarché store reportedly lost its entire frozen-food stock, worth approximately €50,000. A nearby Super U allegedly had to discard both fresh and frozen products, with losses estimated at €220,000. An E.Leclerc store in the same town was also affected, although its losses had not yet been calculated.
The combined losses reported at the Intermarché and Super U stores in Haguenau alone amount to around €270,000. Nationwide damage could reach several million euros.
Intermarché reportedly confirmed the incident in an internal communication, warning that several stores had suffered losses of frozen products. Coopérative U also acknowledged the attack and established crisis teams to assist affected stores and coordinate with refrigeration specialists.
Technical investigations are ongoing, and the full extent of the damage has yet to be established.
Authorities and companies are still working to determine the full circumstances of the attack. The identity of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.
Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
UPDATE, after the result… It was great to be in Holborn and St Pancras yesterday, helping out on election-day on the ground. The camaraderie was real. But camaraderie / our comfort-zone is of course not enough. Our vote, admittedly with the unique (to this constituency) help of Andrew Feinstein, went well forward, but the Labour margin of victory was still comfortable, despite our Leader throwing everything at this. Our comfort-zone is ofc only the start: >Greens must get better at appealing well >beyond< our base.< At reaching all the way to the majority who are deeply concerned about the everything-crisis that the Labour Government are still not addressing with any seriousness.
It’s time to start thinking about a strategic reset. It’s time to remind people why we exist. To place issues like climate impacts and their impact on cost of living front and centre. And to work to depolarise rather than to play into culture wars.
I’m in Kings Cross (by the old gasworks, by the canal, to be precise), with my Green rosette on, because today is ofc the day! Here to try to help Zack Polanski get elected as MP for Holborn and St Pancras… #VoteGreen
#Zack4MP
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New lows this morning for the Today programme:
Simon Jack in the last hour managing to combine being utterly vapid (eg on the Celebrity Traitors, with a content-free matey segment featuring Rajan), getting things completely wrong (eg 100% misunderstanding what the Trade Envoy who he had on was saying), calling in effect for the law to be broken (by suggesting that perhaps the UAE should be allowed to be above the law, because they are such big investors in the U.K.), and slanting history in a false and thoroughly right-wing direction (by making the ludicrous claim that inequality has gone down in the last 40 years).
Mostly terrible guests.
Ignoring all the real massive issues facing the world.
Honestly, despicably bad.
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I’ll be live on #BBC Radio 4 tonight at 9pm for an episode of Free Thinking, with Peter Stanford, Carmody Grey and Jakub Kowalewski. We will be discussing whether the morality of #StFrancis has lessons for us today, 800 years after his death.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003248…
Prof. Rupert Read retweeted
This.
The central message of the intelligence services’ suppressed National Security Assessment:
The UK has no strategic food reserves, imports more than 40 percent of its food, and grows most of the rest in parts of the country most prone to serious drought in the years and decades to come
We are not - to say the least - in a good place
theguardian.com/business/202…
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"Every major ecosystem, that we depend on for our own survival, is on a pathway to collapse."
Watch @CarolineLucas on BBC #QuestionTime talking about the suppressed National Security Assessment (NSA). We MUST continue to push for the UK Government to release the full report.
#climate #ukgovernment #dobetter
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Extinction Rebellion activists stage a loud 'Cacerolazo' noise protest in central London, banging pots and pans to demand the UK government release its full, unredacted National Security Assessment on global ecosystem collapse and climate risks.
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"If you include sea travel,... air travel... [and] the carbon in the products that we buy from abroad. Emissions have barely fallen since 1990 so can we please nail this myth that Britain is a leader on climate, We're just not", @GreenRupertRead.
Extinction Rebellion protests in London
#politicslive - 1215 on BBC2 most weekdays (1115 on Wednesdays if there is a PMQs) with Jo Coburn and Andrew Neil live from Westminster
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This is the REDACTED version of the UK government report on ecosystem collapse. They refuse to release the full version. Imagine how bad that must be. No wonder @ChrisGPackham is pissed off and demanding better.
assets.publishing.service.go…
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This felt like a trip down memory lane. I teamed up with @XRebellionUK, which I helped launch back in the day, to call for the suppressed National Security Assessment to be released in full. We need to know what we are preparing for! Watch.
#loveandrage #london #climate #NSA



















