School Climate Strikes: Why Adults no Longer Have the Right to Object to their Children Taking Radical Action
By Rupert Read, The Conversation
A worldwide wave of school climate strikes, begun by the remarkable Greta Thunberg, has reached the UK. Some critics claim these activist-pupils are simply playing truant, but I disagree. Speaking as both a climate campaigner and an academic philosopher, I believe school walkouts are morally and politically justifiable.
Apollo-Earth: A Wake Up Call In Our Race against Time
By Rupert Read, Deepak Rughani, The Ecologist
There is a mission brewing and building, a mission that needs all hands that are ready: To bring the 'un-named movement' - the 'for-life' story of our time - to a tipping point. This needs to happen faster than the rate at which our planet is approaching fatal climatic tipping points
After Brexit and Trump: don’t Demonise; Localise!
By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rupert Read, The Ecologist
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era.