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Rupert Read

  • Co-Director, Climate Majority Project, Climate Majority Project
  • Contributor, Freelance
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Co-Director, Climate Majority Project @CMP_voice | Emeritus Philosophy Prof. …I mute people who compose using AI. Find me more often now @rupertread on Substack
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Escalating Climate and Geopolitical Shocks Force a Choice: Build Resilience or Be Shaped by Crisis

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By Rupert Read
| ZNetwork
As we enter what is likely the worst El Niño event in history, amid geopolitical turmoil that would have put our systems under grave pressure even on its own, consideration of how we can adapt and survive is urgent. It is in that context that I assert this: Adaptation needs to grow up. To mature it cannot remain a technocratic exercise in flood defences and heatwave plans. It has to become a project of national (and local and international) resilience.
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Escalating climate and geopolitical shocks force a choice: build resilience or be shaped by crisis

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By Rupert Read
| Countercurrents
Aerial views of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast. Image (via Rawpixel) As we enter what is likely the worst El Niño event in history, amid geopolitical turmoil that would have put our systems under grave pressure even on its own, consideration of how we can adapt and survive is urgent. It is in that context that I assert this: Adaptation needs to grow up. To mature it cannot remain a technocratic exercise in flood defences and heatwave plans.
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Well-Adapted?: How what we need is STRATEGIC adaptation, to what may be coming

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By Rupert Read
| Climate Majority Project
Responding to The Fourth Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk By Ed Jarvis and Rupert Read of the CMP’s ‘SAFER’ campaign.
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