So what? So this: we get lots of our veg from Holland. Much of that will not be grown, without heated greenhouses. Take this seriously. Do what you can (with your neighbourhood etc) to prepare. And learn the bitter message: a fossil-dependent economy is dangerously OUT OF DATE.

So what? So this: we get lots of our veg from Holland. Much of that will not be grown, without heated greenhouses. Take this seriously. Do what you can (with your neighbourhood etc) to prepare. And learn the bitter message: a fossil-dependent economy is dangerously OUT OF DATE.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

This is wondrous — when whales give birth they are attended by a group of other whales, who then take turns holding the newborn up to the surface so he or she can breathe. In the birth described below, Rounder was especially helped by Lady Oracle, her own mother. 🥹

"...it’s possible for us to actually preserve, and indeed enhance, our quality of life if what we do is look to the actual ways people get meaning and joy and purpose." I was on #BBC Radio 4's the Moral Maze talking about duty and sacrifice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmZv...

"...chronic pressures on Britain’s food supply, such as worsening droughts and floods, could combine with geopolitical crises to produce shocks to the food system." A secret Govt report on Britain’s ‘critical systems’ has been revealed - and it's bad! www.thetimes.com/article/3812...

The gap continues to narrow… >>Bets on: How long til a poll puts the Green Party in FIRST place? >>Please drop a Reply with your best guess below. >Whoever is closest when it happens gets a free copy of ‘Letters to the Earth’ book :) #VoteGreen ((Nb If you make multiple guesses u r disqualified.))

Another food crisis report that was buried 🤦 This new one comes thanks to the fantastic work of @rupertread.bsky.social and @ben-cooke.bsky.social in The Times this week. A quick thread 🧵: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Most people are concerned about climate, but don’t speak up. Let’s find our voice. Join @CarolineLucas, @liamckavanagh, Wim Vermeulen and @PhoebeTickell, for the launch of Mobilising Silent Majorities. March 31 | 17:30–19:00 GMT | Online Free tickets: shorturl.at/w2Wpe

Love the direction of travel…

Yes!:

UK FOOD SYSTEMS FACE COLLAPSE BY 2030. The contents of a secret government report on Britain’s critical systems and their grave vulnerability have been made public, for the very first time.

TODAY. Come on down.

Very much enjoyed my session with Liz Gadd and Zoe Sprigings at #Anthropy last night exploring practical ways to take people with us, especially those most affected, moving beyond rhetoric to real world #climate resilience and adaptation.

The report was stark in its findings, incl crucially: “Britain’s food security…“at strategic risk of catastrophic failure”. Food was one of the critical systems & found to be at risk of collapse from 2030, unless we change course to a safer, more resilient path. www.thetimes.com/article/3812...

This is quite a chilling piece by @rupertread.bsky.social. For me, a bewildering line therein is: "half of Britain’s wheat harvest is at present fed to livestock". Crikey. rupertsreads.substack.com/p/our-nation...

For those at #Anthropy, my session this evening (on getting real on climate adaptation) has moved location: it’s now in DISCOVERY. event.anthropy.uk/event/anthro...

New blog: "Given deep uncertainty about the scale and nature of coming #climate impacts, prudent preparedness is not optional – it is a matter of survival." Isn’t it time we had a Plan B? 👇 rupertread.net/blog/2026/is...

1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect. I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now. This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵

This is so important in the #UK - and not the same report on ecosystem collapse that was recently quietly released, after being equally quietly withdrawn last year. If like most of us, you don't subscribe to the @thetimes.com, the public-interest text is at rupertsreads.substack.com/p/our-nation...

“This is a dark day for Britain” howls Reform’s Zia Yusuf on the govt’s decision to immediately ban crypto and cap foreign donations to political parties. Almost as if he doesn’t give a shit about democracy or patriotism and cares much more about money, no matter how dirty and corrupt it is. (Times)

Re-upping this, because it’s sooooooo pertinent now as the Iran crisis starts to grip us vice-like… It’s insane that we remain so fossil-dependent. Whereas the more we ramp up renewables, retrofit and energy-dependence reduction and energy-WASTE reduction, the better off we are:

Re-upping this, because it’s sooooooo pertinent now as the Iran crisis starts to grip us vice-like… It’s insane that we remain so fossil-dependent. Whereas the more we ramp up renewables, retrofit and energy-dependence reduction and energy-WASTE reduction, the better off we are:

BREAKING: Huge news: The contents of a secret U.K. Govt report on Britain’s ‘critical systems’ and their grave vulnerability have just now been made public by the TIMES, for the very first time. Short impt THREAD…

BREAKING: Huge news: The contents of a secret U.K. Govt report on Britain’s ‘critical systems’ and their grave vulnerability have just now been made public by the TIMES, for the very first time. Short impt THREAD…

"On this one occasion, I think they have got something right." My reaction on #GBNews to the government's latest announcement on tackling illegal fly-tipping and waste dumping across the UK. Watch.

The Israeli minister is talking about annexing South Lebanon too.

Let me state a blunt warning here: These mobs of unconstrained settlers are intending to commit terrible ‘revenge’ today upon Palestinians, after the funeral of the settler tragically killed yesterday in a car crash. This risks being an anti-Palestinian pogrom.

I've spent years arguing we need to face #climate reality honestly. This paper argues a key step is adaptation. Co-authored with Cathy Rogers of @socchangelab.bsky.social. Read and tell me what you think. 🔗 www.socialchangelab.org/climate-adap...

In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal is out now. Do watch this major new ITV documentary. www.itv.com/watch/in-our...

Let me state a blunt warning here: These mobs of unconstrained settlers are intending to commit terrible ‘revenge’ today upon Palestinians, after the funeral of the settler tragically killed yesterday in a car crash. This risks being an anti-Palestinian pogrom.

Strikes intensify across Gaza as health officials say 680 Palestinians have been killed since October's 'ceasefire'.

Scientists warn our rainfall extremes are decades ahead of models. Prof Rupert Read asks a blunt question: considering this is already the mildest climate of our lives, why are politicians still downplaying the risks? eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Are we just consumers - or are we CITIZENS? I was on Radio 4's the #MoralMaze discussing the question of hardship and who should make sacrifices in these troubled times. Listen to a clip below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmZv...

The final report on last April's Spain/Portugal blackout is out. A few takeaways: - Lack of "inertia" due to too few fossil/nuclear generators - the thing anti-renewable pundits immediately blamed without evidence, then reporters breathlessly endlessly repeated - played essentially no role.

Stop thinking climate change means graphs and ice caps. Prof Rupert Read reframes it as something tangible: flooded businesses, devastated crops, anxious households – and choices we can still make to reduce harm. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

I’ve been looking forward today for a while - the #WaveneyValley #Sustainable Communities Conference led by my MP @adrianramsay.bsky.social and supported by wonderful people such as @rupertread.bsky.social. I reckon there is around 100 here at Diss’ Corn Hall.

Must watch! "Extreme optimism says don't worry, everything's going to be fine. Extreme doomism says there's nothing you can do. Both of them have an enormous kind of psychological attraction in that way. They let you off the hook." - Rupert Read www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-n...

The day Rupert Read met the ex-head of the Environment Agency Please take a look - utterly shocking, but not even a little bit surprising rupertsreads.substack.com/p/how-those-...

BREAKING: I’ve had a unique chance to pre-view this major new documentary appearing on ITV this Sunday night, on forever chemicals (PFAS etc). It is a moving and deeply-concerning human story. WATCH. www.itv.com/presscentre/...

"It only looks like sacrifice if you are thinking of people primarily as consumers. We ought to think of each other primarily as citizens..." I was invited to be one of the witnesses on the BBC's #MoralMaze last night. Well worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

As the oil and gas crisis drives the world economy towards another financial crash, green energy is the only viable future davidtoke.substack.com/p/as-the-oil...

"Given this war’s immense implications — for the #climate emergency and so much else — the question of why it was launched in the first place demands scrutiny..." A well-written article from Covering Climate Now - 'The Iran War Is Also a Climate War'. coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...

Unbelievable shite from Reform’s James Orr on #bbcQT: utterly ridiculous to pretend that decarbonisation is responsible for our lack of energy sovereignty now, when the truth is that it is our ongoing dependence on fossil that makes us so vulnerable now. By contrast, Caroline Lucas on it.

Caroline Lucas totally cuts through the cr*p re Iran and Trump/Netanyahu on #bbcQT: the uselessness of the other panellists thrown starkly into view…

"...it’s possible for us to actually preserve, and indeed enhance, our quality of life, if what we do is look at the actual ways people get meaning and joy and purpose." I was a witness on last night's edition of the BBC's #MoralMaze. If you missed it, listen now 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"Given this war’s immense implications — for the #climate emergency and so much else — the question of why it was launched in the first place demands scrutiny..." A well-written article from Covering Climate Now - 'The Iran War Is Also a Climate War'. coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...

It’s so clear now that this country has made a terrible series of decisions that left us exposed to this crisis. Where are our well-insulated homes? Our solar/battery-powered minibuses? And and and.

A long life well lived. Habermas mattered to me as a philosopher of deliberative democracy. See eg www.greenhousethinktank.org/static/2012/... . He will of course be much missed. RIP.

Last week, we launched We Need a Plan B, led by Theo Cox. The report argues that preparedness, not just prevention, must become central to climate action. With risks rising and progress stalling, betting everything on Plan A is itself a risk. 🎥 Watch the launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5R...