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Climate Crisis

Do You Want to Know the Truth? by Rupert Read

November 22, 2022 MDRose 0

Book Review by Alison Teal Honesty is the key word for Rupert Read’s new book Do You Want to Know the Truth? Rarely is this book what one would consider ‘light’ reading. Collecting some of […]

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Joseph Eastoe and Rupert Read – A fair COP or a dirty COP: What we need and what we can expect from COP27

November 5, 2022 MDRose 0

There are, sadly, several reasons to be less optimistic for COP27 than we were for COP26, say Joseph Eastoe and Rupert Read of GreensCAN. The pair set out 11 tests that they believe COP27 – […]

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Rupert Read: Ready for the whole truth? The surprising rewards of facing up to climate breakdown

November 4, 2022 MDRose 0

On climate, we may like to think that there is a 100% contrast between a righteous ‘us’ on the one hand and the corrupt/failed/denialistic political and media class on the other. But this is actually […]

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Rupert Read – Out of the Ashes

November 4, 2022 MDRose 0

Watch the film! Is THIS civilisation finished? Looks like it. But what comes next? That’s where you come in… My new short film OUT OF THE ASHES, written by me & @frannyarmstrong and directed by […]

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Rupert Read – From climate grief to mass action: a natural development

October 6, 2022 MDRose 0

While many of us are shocked by the rapidly increasing  consequences of climate breakdown, it is critical that we organise to counter the economic interests that are responsible for this disaster. Rupert Read teaches Philosophy […]

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Rupert Read – The failed ideology of Davos

May 25, 2022 MDRose 0

You cannot continue with capitalism with incessant growth and all its externalities and stop climate breakdown. Rupert Read teaches Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK This week, Davos, Switzerland is hosting a networking event […]

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Rupert Read, Wolfgang Knorr – Stop saying ‘Climate emergency!’? (Until, collectively, we mean it?)

May 6, 2022 MDRose 0

The real emergency is precisely that collectively we don’t treat this situation as remotely anything like an emergency Rupert Read teaches Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK Wolfgang Knorr is a Senior Research […]

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Rupert Read, Marc Lopatin – Will the passing of 1.5 degrees see the end of cruel optimism?

April 7, 2022 MDRose 0

‘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 […]

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Rupert Read: The inconvenient truth about telling the truth about climate breakdown

March 18, 2022 MDRose 0

Telling the truth — and allowing oneself to hear it — can take real courage. Truth-telling is often inconvenient for speaker, hearers, all. But it is too late now to do anything less. Read Here […]

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Rupert Read – The Can Stops Now

November 12, 2021 MDRose 0

Rupert Read reports on the COPOUT in Glasgow Rupert Read teaches Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK There’s a phrase used in politics; ‘to kick the can down the road’. No doubt you’ve […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

May 8, 2026 0

Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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