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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 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)

On this podcast with @charliejgardner.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social we discuss our new report on #climate popularism, and the need for #adaptation : retrofitting homes, greening cities, restoring #nature and growing food together. youtu.be/ntFeORWeYyI?... #climatecrisis

NEW: Check out the latest #AccidentalGods podcast where Jon Alexander fills in for host @mandascott.bsky.social. He takes a deep dive into our Climate Popularism report with me and my co-author, @carolinelucas.bsky.social. accidentalgods.life/climclimate-...

Book now: Join me in April for my popular 'Introduction to Spiritual Adaptation' short course at Glenthorne in the #LakeDistrict. Full details via the link. glenthorne.org/events-progr...

We recorded a special bonus episode of @macrodosepod.bsky.social to discuss our new #Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. Listen now. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Climate scientist Dr @charliejgardner.bsky.social discusses with @carolinelucas.bsky.social & @rupertread.bsky.social the kind of movement-building empowerment for societies worried that the cavalry isn't coming - #climatepopularism. Best yet, proactive governments out there can join in and help.

There's a hole at the heart of Burnham's politics - climate. Listen to Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read on our bonus latest episode, Climate Popularism pod.fo/e/6e1b08

Here's how the Greens should appeal to Reform voters. Listen to Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read on our bonus latest episode, Climate Popularism

Thanks to @labourlewis.bsky.social for supporting our new Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. This moment offers a rare and fleeting chance to repair the neglect and powerless-ness that have fuelled the populist right. Read it here: www.climatemajorityproject.com

🚨New episode of News from a World in Flux🚨 @charliejgardner.bsky.social talks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social about how to make taking climate action popular through adaptation. From the new Climate Popularism report by @climatemajority.bsky.social. youtu.be/ntFeORWeYyI

"We don't know what comes next because there has never been an #ElNiño as huge as this!" I went on TV to warn about this climate-driven El Niño. Watch. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Due to the Super El Niño, forecasters are warning of a stormier and wetter winter for the UK. I’ve asked the Minister how she is working across government to ensure preparedness for flooding risks this winter is stepped up to keep our communities safe.

😮 Comparing El Nino’s Current State: 2026 makes 1997 look like Child’s Play! Who lived in #Florida in 1997-1998? I was a whipper-snapper weatherman in #Tampa back then. It was a crazy winter…

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 @mandascott.bsky.social says, our new Climate Popularism report shares examples of how to do that. www.climatemajorityproject.com

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 @mandascott.bsky.social says, our new Climate Popularism report shares examples of how to do that. www.climatemajorityproject.com

"A new approach to politics dubbed '#climate popularism' could help reposition climate action..." Our new report is featured in @businessgreen.bsky.social. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537476...

Can a country defend itself without resilient water and ecological systems? Rupert Read discusses NATO Article 3 and whole-society resilience. @rupertread.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social Full GENN interview: https://youtu.be/LgS3M9MdGy0

A clip from the launch of the Climate Majority Project's new #Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. Do watch the full video where we delve into why adaptation is an incredibly powerful way to address climate breakdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_0...

'It must start where people are': 'Climate popularism' could break the grip of right-wing parties - a new report from @rupertread.bsky.social and me 👇 www.businessgreen.com/news/4537476...

Important and inspiring dialogue on the future of democracy, the climate, the planet and society with @rupertread.bsky.social, @carolinelucas.bsky.social and @jonalexander.bsky.social from Climate Majority Project perspectives… @climatemajority.bsky.social - pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=Px_0...

"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 @climatemajority.bsky.social #Climate Popularism report, which is out now. You can read it via the link. www.climatemajorityproject.com

Has the "Zionism Is Racism" motion helped the Green Party advance the cause of peace & justice for Palestinians? Ben Jamal, who was Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign for 10 years, is clearly not convinced, and for good reason, imo. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-g...

Watch: I went on telly to warn about this climate-driven #ElNiño. youtu.be/2C0y-Ru0j3c?...

"The fall of this civilisation is probably going to be a lot harder than the falls of most previous civilisations." I joined Jem Bendell, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Will Self and Michel Bauwens for a discussion on what we can learn from past civilisational collapses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wsW...

Please listen to @GreenRupertRead: "...We need to be prepared for worst scenarios. If you are not prepared for a worse case scenario and it occurs you will regret it..." youtu.be/HUoVHO6gEmM?...

What determines whether the ideas of progress give rise to, well, progress, or merely the substitution of the old? In 2025, Verdurin convened a conversation between author of "The Progress Trap" Ben Cobley, Spiked’s Fraser Myers, and environmental philosopher Rupert Read. Listen: buff.ly/hLPlWuc

NEW: If you couldn't make our breakfast webinar earlier this morning for the launch our #Climate Popularism report, check out the latest episode of the ClimateGENN #podcast, with @nickbreeze.genn.cc, where my co-author @carolinelucas.bsky.social and I discuss its contents. youtu.be/LgS3M9MdGy0?...

Interesting discussion with @carolinelucas.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social on their #Ecopopularism report. Some serious thinking on this green narrative. Whether it should be a Green Party platform or a deliberative practice is food for thought to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_0...

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_0...

‘proposals for change tend to be dismissed as either utopian or trivial’: we talk either about unattainable, dreamy futures or about incredibly boring incremental change. What’s missing is the middle ground’ Inspiring on #thrutopias from @rupertread.bsky.social and @climatemajority.bsky.social

Have you read the new Climate Popularism report by our co-chair @carolinelucas.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social? Zoe Williams has and explains its meaning for the future of British politics.

I’m halfway through reading this and I like what I hear so far.

"...fit not just for today but for troubled times ahead." - Jonathon Porritt, author and campaigner. We've had some great feedback on our @climatemajority.bsky.social #Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. Read it via the link. www.climatemajorityproject.com

Zoe Williams with a super enthusiastic, thoughtful, in-depth take on our #Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with @carolinelucas.bsky.social, explaining its meaning for the future of British politics 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Watch: A short video celebrating the release of our #Climate Popularism report. Like all @climatemajority.bsky.social reports, it is available for free via the website. www.climatemajorityproject.com

Why not insulate every home in Britain? Lower bills, warmer winters, cooler summers & new jobs. @carolinelucas.bsky.social makes case for practical climate action. @rupertread.bsky.social @climatemajority.bsky.social @nickbreeze.genn.cc https://genn.cc/climate-popularism-caroline-lucas-rupert-read/

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My latest #Substack is on our new #Climate Popularism report, where we lay out how we can produce truly universal, purpose-driven, positive politics that can address the central issues that the vast majority of the population are concerned about. rupertsreads.substack.com/p/new-report...

Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

OUT NOW: Check out our new @climatemajority.bsky.social report on Climate Popularism, which explores how to break the grip of right-wing populism through a new politics of crisis resilience. www.climatemajorityproject.com

Hey people the Climate Popularism Report by @rupertread.bsky.social of the @climatemajority.bsky.social and @carolinelucas.bsky.social of the @greenparty.org.uk is out today Essential Reading! assets.climatemajorityproject.com/Climate%20po...

Download our latest report: assets.climatemajorityproject.com/Climate%20po...

This is "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." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@carolinelucas.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social Superb webinar! Thank you