Photo shows people listening to Liam Kavanagh of the CMP speak while sitting next to Rupert Read. The text, a quote from Rupert's column, reads: “....while many working class people are involved in that movement, it is also generally true that disproportionately many of the faces you see at protests, organising meetings or being interviewed on TV are (like me) from a largely white middle class background.”

NEW: "Is there even such a thing as working class in 2026?"

That's one of the questions we asked during a year-long project looking at class and the #climate movement. Check out my latest column for the full story.

www.edp24.co.uk/news/2600431...

New blog: Today (Monday) is the last day you can register to vote in time for next month's elections across Britain. Politics still matters – and we have a role to play in shaping it. Read more 👇

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Love it!
#southparkvibes ;)

Love it!
#southparkvibes ;)

UEA project asks how climate action can be made more working class Rupert Read reports on a year-long, UEA-funded project to explore the class background of the climate change movement.

It’s always good to see work on class and climate activism: www.edp24.co.uk/news/2600431...

Do we need a back-up plan? Too damn right we do.

Speaking as someone who spent some years (2014-2022) involved in wartime strategic defence planning I can say that it is standard practice to make contingency plans, including for worst case scenarios.

The report 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1ID32...

You should read this excellent post by founder of XR

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Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan ‘just in case’ things do go catastrophically wrong?…. By Rupert Read, Theo Cox, Liam Kavanagh

"...the most productive path forward lies not in endless contention in the hope of honing a decisive winning argument, but in pursuing a more attainable consensus around what an adaptive response to the worst case scenario looks like."

Time for a Plan B👇

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I think it’s more complicated than that.
My view is that many left leaning policies fall naturally out of taking the emergency seriously. Not as ideological commitments, merely as pragmatic common-sense. Like in WWII.
That’s the way to go, to actually win.

Well said.

We need an urgent return to the cross party consensus on climate. These matters are immensely complex & not fit for one size fits all answers. Even with broad cooperation they remine fiendishly difficult. Fragmentation of progressive voices leads inevitably to failure. No party has all the answers!

True words

With Ed Gillespie, Juliette Harkin and Cathy Rowett after a good, hard afternoon’s campaigning together for the Greens in South Norfolk :)

It should be @vladvexler.bsky.social tagged.

Without pluralism within the climate movement, we risk handing the future to the far right The climate crisis demands urgency, not ideological uniformity. In an already fragmented movement, requiring adherence to specific positions on issues beyond climate action deepens division and opens...

"This ideological gatekeeping undermines the very purpose of a movement that should be uniting us against a shared threat."

New joint article with Follows you on our growing concern about the direction of the #climate movement. Read now 👇

www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

Truth, Community & Urgent Action: Prof. Rupert Read at Anthropy UK 2026 | Audio Only In this thought-provoking conversation at Anthropy UK's annual gathering in March 2026, Professor Rupert Read pulls no punches. Opening with a challenge to what he calls the "toxic positivity" of…

The theme of my talk at Anthropy recently was partly inspired by a disturbing AI-powered robot I encountered while at the Future Dome, which "showcased" emerging technologies, robotics, VR and drones.

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For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Letters Letters: Responding to an article by the PM, Caroline Lucas says he must be clearer about climate risks, Molly Scott Cato says we must reverse Brexit and Dr Victor Ajuwon applauds Labour’s directness....

Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇

Without pluralism within the climate movement, we risk handing the future to the far right The climate crisis demands urgency, not ideological uniformity. In an already fragmented movement, requiring adherence to specific positions on issues beyond climate action deepens division and opens ...

Our warning about eco-fascism in the 2030s, and why the climate movement needs pluralism rather than hyper-identity politics.

@rupertread.bsky.social joins me as co-author. We disagree on some issues. That is itself part of the pluralism we are advocating.

www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

Don’t worry, we definitely won’t!!

Without pluralism within the climate movement, we risk handing the future to the far right The climate crisis demands urgency, not ideological uniformity. In an already fragmented movement, requiring adherence to specific positions on issues beyond climate action deepens division and opens ...

Does the climate movement need to be a broader church? Interesting piece from @vladvexler.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social
#Climate #ClimateCrisis

TY! Yes.

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

It’s existential. I mean, it’s about whether we and our children live or die - and it’s about HOW we live, how we choose to exist. What culture we choose to project.
An ideologically-narrow ‘woke’ culture, that excludes, or a positive and genuinely invitational welcome.

SAFER Strategic Adaptation for Emergency Resilience

We need to seize this period when we still have a time advantage, to get serious about depolarisation, to be genuinely invitational about winning people into climate action, and to make strategic-transformative adaptation the main attractor.

www.climatemajorityproject.com/campaign/safer

At present, the far Right is confused on #climate, uncertain whether or not to get serious about defensive-reactive climate adaptation. That confusion is unlikely to last.

SAFER Strategic Adaptation for Emergency Resilience

🧵A key point, in this joint article with @vladvexler.bsky.social, is that while genuine eco-fascism is at present virtually non-existent, that situation could change substantially within a few years.

www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

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East Anglians!: Come join me this Saturday to help get the splendid Ed Gillespie elected a Green County Councillor in the Harleston area: meet at Swan pub from 1.30pm and join in an arvo of canvassing and leafletting.
(Or go in the morning, to campaign alongside Adrian Ramsay and Rachel Millward!)