Dr. Rupert Read is Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project, co-editor of Deep Adaptation, and co-author of Transformative Adaptation.
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The EU confirms: it’s time for STRATEGIC adaptation
Deep as we now are, tragically, in the age of consequences, only a more deeply deliberately transformative effort at responding smartly to the damage that is here and preparing for the unpredictably worse damage that is to come has any chance of being sufficient.
February 25, 2026
It’s ecological breakdown that should put us on a war-footing: official
Admissions of extreme, eco-caused national security threats foreground importance of climate adaptation to bring much needed urgency and agency.
January 27, 2026
The end of 2025 must be the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’
We should admit that widely-mandated climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality – and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to get serious about making happen.
December 29, 2025
Adaptation Isn’t Backing Down – It’s Stepping Up
COP30 is underway. It’s being called the ‘Adaptation COP’—the moment when the world finally faces the need to live within a changed climate. But let’s be honest: humanity isn’t preparing for crisis anymore. We’re already living through it.
November 12, 2025
Depolarisation and adaptation create serious change together
Adaptation is a chance to gather almost everybody around the table. The hard facts can be laid out on that table for all to see and, around it, the possibility of a future can be negotiated. Please let’s invite everybody who is operating in good faith to sit at it.
August 4, 2025
Joanna Macy: a personal tribute from Rupert Read
An unparalleled eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, systems theorist, and activist, Joanna dedicated her life to illuminating the interconnectedness of all life and empowering individuals and groups to confront the ecological and social crises of our time with courage and compassion.
July 22, 2025
