Biodiversity: Targets and lies
By Victor Anderson, Rupert Read, Resilience.org
Target-setting is very different from implementation and achievement. Voluntary agreements are very different from ones which are legally binding and enforced.
Earth vs. Futurism
By Rupert Read, Emerge
Longtermism is a lullaby sung to the tune of tired fantasies of human exceptionalism. It is anaesthesia for the age of consequences.
Do You Want to Know the Truth?
By Rupert Read, Samuel Alexander, Resilience.org
Do you really want to know the truth; are you really willing to let it in, to be changed by it? My hope is to demonstrate that the answer must, simply must, be: Yes.
Is Climate Breakdown a White Swan?
By Rupert Read, Resilience.org
So, gaze into the eyes of the White Swan; and act like you have never have before.
The failed ideology of Davos
By Rupert Read, Resilience.org
The bottom-line is that SDG 8, requiring the pursuit of ‘economic growth’, actually undermines all the other SDGs. Growth is not a good thing. It is not necessary. And it will soon in any case be ending.
Stop saying ‘Climate emergency!’? (Until, collectively, we mean it?)
By Rupert Read, Wolfgang Knorr, Resilience.org
Because the so-called ‘emergency’ isn’t going to solve it for us. Moreover, it isn’t going to get ‘solved’ as such at all. The start of the new beginning we need, is to admit that we have failed. And then seek, everywhere, and together, a real way forward.
Will the passing of 1.5 degrees see the end of cruel optimism?
By Rupert Read, Marc Lopatin, Resilence.org
‘The public gets what the public wants’ sang a young Paul Weller on the 1979 hit Going Underground. It’s a lyric that doubles as our one-line summary of this week’s major report by the world’s leading climate scientists.
Into the light
By Rupert Read, Resilience.org
I am confident that this civilisation is coming to an end. It will be replaced by a civilisation, in all likelihood, that is much better at grounding itself in the Earth and much more attuned to that natural world.