From the intro to a new podcast episode about the climate crisis...
We’re on the edge of so many tipping points, it’s hard to know where to start. But paralysis isn’t useful and we need to talk to the people who are still moving forward – and who have ideas of how we can carry more and more people with us.
So, what can we do to unite the overwhelming majority of people who understand that we’re at the edge of the cliff and want to do something, but don’t know what or how?
Professor Rupert Read is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. With a degree from Oxford and a doctorate from Rutger’s, he has a polished academic pedigree. But it’s as an activist, thought-leader, and fearless advocate for truth that he really stands out. Rupert’s books ‘This Civilisation is Finished’, ‘Parents For a Future’, and most recently ‘Do you want to know the Truth’ are all hard-hitting examinations of exactly where we are and how we could move forward in ways that will at least begin to acknowledge the truths of the meta crisis.
It’s not all writing, though. Rupert, was one of the core founders of Extinction Rebellion and has been arrested for his actions on behalf of our future, and is now one of the key thinkers behind the Climate Majority Project...