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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This!
Looking forward to giving the initial plenary speech at this important event...
Join #ExtinctionRebellion to demand the publication of the full, unredacted version of the National Security Assessment, a plan to address the existential risks it highlights and to demand a UK-wide briefing on the Climate and Nature risks.
#London 12-14th September
Sad to hear the news of the death of my old Wittgenstein teacher at Balliol College (Oxford), the remarkable Tony Kenny.
RIP, old Master.
Green Leader names three such litmus test below, in fact: Gaza, PR, and taking wealth inequality seriously.
Crucial work:
This is correct.
[See bright-green.org/2024/06/19/…, from TWO YEARS ago, where I explained why.]
🚨 The Greens are FOUR points off Reform UK.
The real opposition to Reform is the Green Party. 💚
ALT Bar graph depicting the latest Westminster voting intention poll via Find Out Now. Dated from the twenty-sixth of March to the twenty-seventh of March, with percent changes from the eighteenth of March, has Reform UK on twenty four percent, down one point, the Greens on twenty percent, up one point, the Conservatives on eighteen percent, also up one point, Labour on sixteen percent, with no change. Finally the Liberal Democrats are on twelve percent, up one point.
Join Phoebe Tickell & Rupert Read for an immersive workshop. You will be astonished how deep you can go, in just 1 day. Together, we'll journey through Buddhist philosophy, radical acceptance and deep ecology - by way of powerful experiential exercises:
hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-pr…
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Rupert Read and Phoebe Tickell were mentored by Joanna Macy.
If you want to dive into what it means to be emotionally present in a time of looming collapse, then join us at beautiful Hawkwood near Stroud, on 27 March, to experience her living legacy:
hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-pr…
Asking for your help, followers… Please sign and share this vital petition! We’re almost at 5000 signatures… petition.parliament.uk/petit…
TY!!!
“There is a deep way in which a more communal orientation towards life is prevalent in eastern cultures. Without that context, practises of meditation and mindfulness come to seem merely like tools for individual self-development.”
Read more insight from me: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Very excited to support the #greensurge as @zackpolanski.bsky.social brings bold politics to the fore and @greenparty.org.uk membership continues to skyrocket.
thelondoneconomic.com/politi…
#greenparty #zactionism #ZackPolanski
It will be Greens vs Reform in the East Anglian Mayoral race...:
🗳️ NEW | Greens second in East of England📊
➡️REF: 34% (+5)
🟢GRN: 20% (+5)
🔵CON: 18% (-4)
🔴LAB: 14% (-1)
🟠LDEM: 13% (-5)
via @Moreincommon_ / 5-8 Sept
Chgs w/ 29 Aug-1 Sept.
Introducing 'green popularism' during a speech I made recently at an Ulverston Green Party event: youtu.be/przijS21ZLs
#greenpopularism #greenparty #climate
Love how strong this guy with the horned helmet was!
Fitting the part...
This is effing terrifying:
Theo Von: In that Big Beautiful Bill it says for a full 10 years, no state may enforce any law or regulation that regulates AI
Rep. @RoKhanna: If a state wants to pass a law saying you gotta have a truck driver on a truck, you can't do that. If your state wants to pass a law saying you can't have an algorithm that gets young girls addicted to content that makes them more likely to have eating disorders, can't do that
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A disastrous fringe idea, that is wildly unpopular:
Green Party leadership frontrunner Zack Polanski tells me the UK must now end its membership of NATO, because of Trump.
Polanski says that Trump's presidency means the "Age of NATO is over" and his party should now abandon its commitment to the alliance
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/08/g…
Very interesting piece.
Supports the argument I have been making for some time: that LLMs are likely on balance to be very bad for humanity; but that the risk of AGI has been much oversold:
“Signs are increasingly pointing to the saturation of AI intelligence at below domain-expert human level. [But it’s] false to say this is a failure, as some critics want to: if AI paused tomorrow, people would be figuring out applications for decades.” open.substack.com/pub/erikho…
An impressive piece... Underscores why admission of failure is essential if we want to actually get anywhere...
Repression of the #climatemovement is “the new green”:
A society that doesn't keep it's climate promises will have no choice but to repress the climate movement, in order to *verdräng*, to ignore its own failure. That's why we're getting our asses kicked.
steadyhq.com/de/friedlichesa…
