Co-Director, Climate Majority Project @CMP_voice | Emeritus Philosophy Prof. …I mute those who use AI to draft content. Find me more now @rupertread on Substack
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Is this you?
Are you afraid that the situation is worse than our leaders and media are willing to admit?
Are you worried that just recycling isn't going to cut it?
Are you the kind of person that doesn't want to lie in roads or get arrested?
Do you want to take action against climate change?
Then you're part of the @CMP_voice
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"Our governments are not responding sufficiently to the alarm that has been raised. And if you are feeling that way my message to you is you're not going mad, you're not alone. We are millions. We are legion."
- Rupert Read, BBC Radio 4
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Interested in our new Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with @CarolineLucas? Take a look at our launch video where we discuss why #climate politics should focus on adaptation, and how doing so can overcome polarisation and offer solutions that ensures wide public buy-in.
Get a copy of the report here: climatemajorityproject.com
youtube.com/watch?v=Px_02snT…
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Important conversations that connect climate collapse, data centres, ecocide and human rights cannot be ignored. We need more honest public debate, accountability and action that puts people, communities and the planet before corporate profit.
I was on Ed Vaizey’s review of the week on @TimesRadio. We talked the American verdict on data centres, what MI5 have let slip about #climate collapse, the downsides of #Airbnb, why I don’t care about smokey bacon crisps, genocide and ecocide and much more (including even Wittgenstein vs Post-Modernism): LISTEN/WATCH.
youtu.be/ESmLROjLzyo?is=DXvy…
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Great support from @labourlewis for our @CMP_voice Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with @CarolineLucas. In recent years, right-populist dynamics have succeeded in making serious #climate action appear electorally toxic.
Get your copy here: climatemajorityproject.com
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"AI is just as big a threat as fossil fuels to everything we hold dear..."
I talked to Ed Vaizey on @TimesRadio about a number of issues, including the lack of government policy on AI.
Full epiosde: youtube.com/watch?v=ESmLROjL…
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Fucking scoundrels.
Spoke to an Anthropic employee today. They have a near-100% p(doom), but they think the only chance of survival is that they're somehow completely wrong about alignment and it turns out to be solvable, and the only way to get there is by accelerating capabilities as fast as possible. They were much more confident that humanity would never have the political will to do what needs to be done to stop ASI development than that alignment would be solved, even though they think alignment will almost certainly not be solved
They have not called their elected representatives to inform them that this is what they believe
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Pete Buttigieg, the lib’s lib, talking effortlessly about the political applications of Antonio Gramsci - and turning around an implicit attack on him to criticise the American right.
Mayor Pete, I wasn’t familiar with your game.
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“Being Jewish and being a Zionist are two different things.”
@ZackPolanski was furious when responding to a motion tabled by the Tories in the London Assembly that “strongly condemns” the motion passed at Green party conference declaring that Zionism is racism.
The Green leader and London Assembly member explained the historical basis by which Zionism can be said to be a colonial project, and asked how it can be that those calling out a genocide can be decried as racist, but those committing the genocide literally get away with murder.
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This man is so wonderful! Amazing moral clarity
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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Fantastic to have @mattgolding, filmmaker, storyteller and co-creator of the hit podcast, Screw This, Let’s Try Something Else, support our new #Climate Popularism report, which I co-authored with Caroline Lucas. Get your free copy via the link.
climatemajorityproject.com
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I'll be interviewing best-selling author, journalist and podcaster, Sarah Wilson, for our latest @CMP_voice breakfast #webinar on November 11th. We'll be talking about mobilising the collapse-concerned majority.
Reserve your spot via the link.
tickettailor.com/events/clim…
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.@antonioguterres has shown great leadership, telling CoP27 the blunt truth: that we are on a "highway to climate hell". But what does that hell look like? What does that highway feel like? >And<: What would it look like to change paths?
Look no further: youtube.com/watch?v=vi166hJv…
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Do you want to know the truth?: There are some surprising rewards to climate-honesty...
Out now!: My new book, timed to coincide with #COP27 (which is still not really confronting climate reality), and available for FREE download at 249897.e-junkie.com/product/… .
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'It's more about left-wing politics, big state, high tax, control of the individual's life, the environment is being used as a tool to achieve that.'
@Nigel_Farage speaks to the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Rupert Read.
🖥 GB News on YouTube bit.ly/3vAYaw0
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I said the motion was bad strategy - which I still believe, but hey, it's done now! - but that Zionism is racist both in theory and practice. You could have included that instead of lying; but I guess you'd build up less of a following if you stopped trying to turn the left against each other. Doing the CIA's job for free!
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This thread is well worth reading
I was concerned about the interview in advance. @Tom___Scott has captured some of the points in it well below.
I am hoping that it does act to bring people together - party needs that. And to reinforce denouncing Israel; and climate action
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There's a significant possibility that tomorrow and in the following days, we'll see things that have rarely or never happened before in a modern Western democracy. Fingers crossed that it doesn't. 👇
EXCLUSIVE: Dems have been privately wargaming election meddling scenarios Trump could unleash. ACLU went through 25 different possibilities. Protect Democracy had a session with Senate+House Dems (one member played Bill Pulte). CAP did one with Dana Nessel, Rob Bonta, and Shenna Bellows.
Massive effort to get ahead of the chaos. @Lauren_V_Egan has the deets
thebulwark.com/p/inside-the-…
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European supermarkets hit by freezer hacking ft.trib.al/0CCoIp6
