Rupert Read on Clubhouse

Bio

Philosophy Prof, author ‘PARENTS FOR A FUTURE: How loving our children can prevent climate collapse’ (www.parentsforafuture.org) 🌎. My other books include
A FILM-PHILOSOPHY OF ECOLOGY AND ENLIGHTENMENT,
THIS CIVILISATION IS FINISHED, and
WITTGENSTEIN’S LIBERATORY PHILOSOPHY.
Co-author, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Co-author, FACING UP TO CLIMATE REALITY.💨☀️🔥
Co-author (w. Nassim Taleb), “The precautionary principle”.
Co-editor (with Jem Bendell), DEEP ADAPTATION.

Public intellectual.🧠

I teach alongside the world’s leading climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (Norwich). 👨‍🎓
My philosophical expertise includes philosophy of the sciences, and philosophy of mental health.

Former U.K. Spokesman, Extinction Rebellion. 🗣. Author, EXTINCTION REBELLION: INSIGHTS FROM THE INSIDE.🐬🐋
Former elected Green Councillor. ✅💚
Co-founder, www.Greens-CAN.Earth . 🟢
Co-founder, www.transformative-adaptation.com .🦋

Quaker, Buddhist. Realist.
Now working on the eco-spirituality of/for our time 🙏

Www.RupertRead.net
My main Twitter account: Www.Twitter.com/GreenRupertRead . (The account linked to below is my personal/philosophical account.)

IPCC Expert Reviewer.

I work alongside wonderful philosophers, world-leading climate scientists, and epochal activists. I live to collaborate.👥

Sometimes journalist / columnist with the GUARDIAN,
INDEPENDENT,
NEW STATESMAN,
THE NEW EUROPEAN,
LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE,
BYLINE TIMES,
HUFFPO,
RESURGENCE, PERMACULTURE and more.

The greatest experience of my life has probably been helping to launch, strategise for and publically and politically liaise for Extinction Rebellion and working with Greta T and her team. If you want to get a sense of this, have a watch of some of my TV appearances: eg on BBC QuestionTime, or on the BBC Politics Live show, or on Channel 5 (Naomi Klein called my performance there “absolutely amazing”), or on the BBC Today programme.

I also totally love debating and discussing all things intellectual on the BBC ‘Freethinking’ programme. And of course here on CH...

Founder, ClubHouse ‘Climate movement strategy’ club. Join us! 👉🏻Click on the club-pic of my PARENTS FOR A FUTURE book, bottom left...

My newest book is TIMELINE OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, out April 2021. This critical history of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.K. is now available FREE as an ebook. 👉🏻Go to my pinned tweet to download it.👈🏻

My next book will be WHY DOES CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTER?, with Bloomsbury Press...