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Rupert Read
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Co-Director @climatemajority.bsky.social | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy | Author, WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS and TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION | Home-grown dissident | Free thinker | Earthling.
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Rupert Read is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and the founder and current director of the Climate Majority Project. He is the author of several books on Wittgenstein, philosophy, and/or climate change, most recently Why Climate Breakdown Matters, Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos, and Do You Want to Know the Truth? Until 2023, Read was a reader in philosophy at the University of East Anglia where he was awarded – as Principal Investigator – Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding for two projects on "natural capital". His other major recent academic focus has been on the precautionary principle, having contributed substantially to work co-authored with Nassim Nicholas Taleb on applying the principle to questions of genetic modification of organisms. In further work, Read has theorised the utility of the precautionary principle in a wide range of areas, including: climate change, the environment, as well as financial and technology sectors. He previously worked as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. .. more

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The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:

“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
(link below)

Well said!

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We owe our children the Truth. Things are not going to be ok. Their adult years will not be lived in the luxury of ever expanding prosperity. The future will be harder than the past.

If we can't shield them from climate collapse, we must arm them to adapt.

If you are hit hard psychologically by the impact of this climate/economic-news, then this new little film of ours is for YOU: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRWG...
The Hardest Lesson | A film from the Climate Majority Project
YouTube video by Climate Majority Project
www.youtube.com

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This is the UK security assessment that the government tried to bury: ecosystem collapse is a national security threat.

Read how you can turn knowledge into action, addressed by Caroline Lucas & Rupert Read:
resilience.org/stories/2026...

#ClimateCrisis #NationalSecurity #Adaptation #Resilience
It's ecological breakdown that should put us on a war-footing: official
Admissions of extreme, eco-caused national security threats foreground importance of climate adaptation to bring much needed urgency and agency.
resilience.org

If you are hit hard psychologically by the impact of this hard climate/economic-news, then this new little film of ours is for YOU:

youtu.be/4H-5qwm3jjM?...

It’s called THE HARDEST LESSON. And IMO, it’s a work of art…
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

Latest!: Caroline Lucas and I set out the state of play, and drawing out political implications vis a vis the essential response required to the news about the suppressed report: ie strategic climate adaptation becoming a real >priority<… READ: www.resilience.org/stories/2026... (And… pass it on…)

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"It all leads to this moment."

Get involved in Gorton and Denton and help us elect the fifth Green Party MP ⤵️

NEW: "Every one of us has a right to know the full, unexpurgated version of what is in this security assessment..."

I co-wrote this with @carolinelucas.bsky.social to help you understand the implications for you of the Government’s suppressed security report 👇

www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
It's ecological breakdown that should put us on a war-footing: official
Admissions of extreme, eco-caused national security threats foreground importance of climate adaptation to bring much needed urgency and agency.
www.resilience.org
Writing with @rupertread.bsky.social about just how devastating the Government- suppressed security report is, particularly its conclusions about our food insecurity. Ministers should be helping to build our resilience to these threats, not burying the report that contains them 👇
It's ecological breakdown that should put us on a war-footing: official
Admissions of extreme, eco-caused national security threats foreground importance of climate adaptation to bring much needed urgency and agency.
www.resilience.org
This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

Latest update: A joint piece with @carolinelucas.bsky.social explaining what this means for you: www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

NEW: "This is a report which, unlike predecessors, can’t be waved away as ‘overstatement’ from ‘usual suspects’..."

I co-wrote this with @carolinelucas.bsky.social to help you understand the implications of the Government’s suppressed security assessment:

www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
It's ecological breakdown that should put us on a war-footing: official
Admissions of extreme, eco-caused national security threats foreground importance of climate adaptation to bring much needed urgency and agency.
www.resilience.org

"Economic inequality has reached obscene levels; our society is more unequal than the Roman Empire was."

I was asked to comment on the activists aiming to "redistribute " M&S food to the needy. See my full comment below.

tinyurl.com/y6wnd4z2

Forced migration is of course not good for anyone, especially the migrants/refugees themselves. So we need to wake people up about this and design effective responses.
If we don’t, then Reform etc will own the terrain!

As you’ll know if u know my work, I am extremely concerned to address root causes: see eg the essential structure of this report: usercontent.one/wp/climatema... . What you solely emphasised in your post is what the ship has sailed for, sadly. You want to actually reach people?: Start w. Adaptation.
usercontent.one
Ever played the board game Pandemic?

I think it contains a surprisingly good lesson for tackling the #climate crisis, especially in a moment of rising far-right politics.

Here's why🧵

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I used to be a secondary school teacher. 3 of our feeder primaries were flooded. It was months before the children could return. Many of our students’ homes were flooded too. Adults often put it on students as if it’s their responsibility to respond to climate change but it’s not, it’s ours.

No one trains teachers for this part of the job.
🎬 We at the @climatemajority.bsky.social have just launched The Hardest Lesson - a short film about what it’s really like to teach during a climate crisis.
Not the facts.
The feelings.
The silence.
The responsibility
Watch now 👇🏼
We ask teachers to hold the emotional weight of the future —
often without the language, support, or permission to be honest.
Today, Climate Courage Schools is launching The Hardest Lesson, a short film about that quiet pressure inside the classroom. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-5...
The Hardest Lesson | Climate Majority Project
YouTube video by Climate Majority Project
www.youtube.com

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We ask teachers to hold the emotional weight of the future —
often without the language, support, or permission to be honest.
Today, Climate Courage Schools is launching The Hardest Lesson, a short film about that quiet pressure inside the classroom. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-5...
The Hardest Lesson | Climate Majority Project
YouTube video by Climate Majority Project
www.youtube.com

Well, feel free to take up concerns about the report’s content or angles with the JIC and Defra. I am just the messenger.
:)
But I’m afraid that it’s way too late to focus only on route causes now, as you suggest. Of course such focus matters; but we also need to brace for impacts now.
#Safer

Indeed, the methodology is not entirely clear: because as I’ve been explaining (see open.substack.com/pub/rupertsr... ), what is published is NOT the complete report!
Tho the basic structural methodology of the report comes from the JIC, and the content comes mostly from DEFRA.
“This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”
- Govt source close to this suppressed official security assessment
open.substack.com

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Everyone in Ireland should be extremely concerned that the Government wants to remove the only legislative mechanism preventing our defence forces from fighting in EU/NATO conflicts at a time when such conflicts have never seemed more likely.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Cabinet set to dismantle triple lock as it amends laws over deploying Irish troops
Ministers are expected to approve a series of amendments to new laws which would dismantle Ireland’s triple lock system
www.irishexaminer.com

"...the real scandal is that citizens have been left not knowing exactly what horrors we are likely to have to endure in the coming years."

Read more 👇

www.instagram.com/p/DT9tjV0E77...

It was actually sneaked out on a Wednesday: deliberately hidden under the Greenland furore.

Citizens are still being systematically deceived by UK ‘leaders’ about the sheer desperateness of the #climate and ecological situation we are in. Please *READ* and *SHARE* this article.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/a-su...
A suppressed warning finally appears: ecosystem collapse as a national security threat
A government report on the national security implications of ecosystem collapse is finally out, and it’s even more shocking than feared
eastangliabylines.co.uk

Listen: Great to be on the @meercool.bsky.social #podcast, with my co-director Liam Kavanagh, to discuss @CMP_voice and why adaptation must be central to #climate action.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn-s...
MEER Podcast - 12. Building a Climate-Ready Majority with Rupert Read & Liam Kavanagh
In this episode of The MEER Podcast, we are joined by Rupert Read and Liam Kavanagh, co-directors of the Climate Majority Project and authors of the SAFER report. Together, they explore why climate…
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Unbelievably dire decision.
It has only one upside: @TheGreenParty is now the only real option to stop Reform in this by-election.
Watch this space: This will likely be the 1st by-election EVER in which the Greens throw everything at it…
**** Labour’s NEC blocks Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton by-election**^^

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**** Labour’s NEC blocks Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton by-election**^^
Latest developments in this crucial story summarised: eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/a-su...
Please share!