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Rupert Read

Emeritus Prof. Rupert Read is co-founder of the Climate Majority Project, which seeks to activate the silent majority, and whose report on Strategic Adaptation is out this Spring. Before moving on from academia, he worked mainly on the Precautionary Principle and the risks of financialising nature.

Articles by Rupert Read

Analysis
uk/The Elections that Turned Climate into a Defining Political Fault Line
ByRupert Read
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Reform and Green victories set the stage for big climate battles in the years ahead.
Opinion
uk/Why We Need to Talk About Adaptation
ByRupert Read
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The volume of 'net zero' messaging — a concept that can sometimes feel very abstract —must be recalibrated to foreground the vital conversation about immediate impacts and resilience.
Opinion
The Coming Climate Uncertainty Conundrum
ByRupert Read
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It's time to prepare for the 'Chaoscene.'
Credit: Pete Linforth via Pixabay
Opinion
The True Power of the Climate Movement Is Now to Admit Our Own Powerlessness
ByRupert Read
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Contending with our historic climate failures is the way to release hopelessness and save our future, argues the co-director of the Climate Majority Project.
Opinion
This Hopeless COP Is the Most Hopeful in Years
ByRupert Read
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Now it’s so obvious that the system is failing, progress is finally possible.
Credit: Adam Victor.
Opinion
The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority
ByRupert Read
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Citizens can handle the truth on climate, when they see something meaningful they can do about it together. 
Protesters at the Big One in London. Credit: Extinction Rebellion.