Prof. Rupert Read

The author of the quoted post isn’t a Reddit conspiracist. He’s head of Natural England! Strategic Adaptation is urgent. Some of the coming possible deaths could start within the next 12 months, given the confluence of the Hormuz farrago & the climate-fuelled ‘Godzilla’ El Niño.

WATCH: A very frank appraisal of where we are and what we can do about it, as we move through record-breaking #heatwaves into the coming off-the-charts El Niño event. This was my keynote speech at The Great Big Green Week in #StratforduponAvon. #GBGW youtu.be/ZAv4w-rwaN8

"...it’s a time when we find what we’re really made of.” I'm featured in latest edition of @themintmag (video and print) talking about how #climate breakdown is no longer an abstract danger parked safely in the future. Out now. themintmagazine.com/the-white-heat…

Heading to this year's Green Gathering? If so, do come to my talk on the first day (July 30th) at 4pm at the Speakers’ Forum. I’ll be discussing the contents of the two suppressed government reports on climate and nature. greengathering.org.uk

Here we go again. Another crunching heatwave begins tomorrow. As a food grower, I know only too well what this means. This is your climate on drugs. It keeps getting worse forever until we get off #fossilfuels.

What’s important to understand is that these incredibly dodgy donations have been making a huge difference to Reform’s level of political success. Money talks. Reform has wayyyyy more money coming in than the Green Party does; and quite simply that means that Reform can succeed in elections where the Greens cannot afford to. The recent Council elections are a big example. Here in rural East Anglia where I live, Reform pumped nationally paid-for direct-mail literature through the door constantly, creating an impression of relevance and professionalism despite Reform being non-existent on the ground here. It works: they became easily the largest Party in both Norfolk and and Suffolk on the county councils, despite being out-campaigned by the Greens on the streets, because they (Reform) simply flooded everyone’s doormats with paper. This is an underplayed reason why it is simply critical to…reform political giving further in this country to clamp down on the buying of politics by the ultra-rich, and of course to ensure that corruption is stamped out: share.google/yF32tyFLSQyp7s…

"One of the things we most need to do then - urgently - is to ‘scenario-plan’ our future, imaginatively but realistically." Here's what I came up with. The story begins seven years from now... #thrutopia #climate bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/a-climate-ma…

@Heccles94 How dare you say things like 'if you don't want to be in the Greens then don't' to our former Leader and first MP. This is extreme intolerance speaking, when you say things like that. This is the prelude to purges. This is poison. Please please let's not go there.

Caroline, I heard you speak once and you were amazing. I’ve always admired you. But please, if you don’t want to be in the Greens then don’t, but don’t keep trash talking your own party and leadership. We will not back down to Genocide, we will always care for the environment, and we will never apologise for being socialist.

Mayim Bialik saw a shirt that said: “Zionism is racism.” She said she felt fear. That is the privilege: Palestinians see their homes bombed. She sees a sentence on a shirt and makes herself the victim.

Two news items, one after the other; a piece about coping with the heatwave in our homes, followed immediately by a piece about growing pressure to drill more oil in the North Sea. No connection made between them at all. Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=IXIWFW…

Green Leader names three such litmus test below, in fact: Gaza, PR, and taking wealth inequality seriously.

"The man widely expected to be Britain’s next prime minister was billed to headline a rally in a south London park this morning. Andy Burnham never turned up. The crowd that gathered instead heard from the Green Party’s Zack Polanski." brixtonbuzz.com/2026/06/burnha…

"Greater food self-reliance, more nature-friendly farming, reduced waste, healthier diets and stronger local economies begin to look less like optional environmental policies and more like sensible - essential - measures of national preparedness." Take a look at my new piece for @buildresilience. resilience.org/stories/2026-0…

Have you heard of the #FlamingoRevolution taking place in #Albania? Mass, sustained protests against a Trump-family-linked development scheme that threatens the Vjosa-Narta area. As I told, Eastern Horizon TV, it gives me real hope.

Let's be crystal clear here. We are not paying £10m extra due to an unexpected heatwave. We are paying this because successive governments have failed to prepare for the impact of climate breakdown. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

I almost choked on my coffee. “Starmer has a strong green record”?! No, no, no; he has at best a half-decent record decarbonisation, he has a non-existent (=dire) record on climate >adaptation<, and he has a Truss-level terrible record on nature. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

A clip from a new #podcast, Heat! Camera! Action! hosted by Jules Pretty, on why we need a #ClimateMajority if we are going to get through this. Filmed in my garden. Watch the full episode via the link. youtube.com/watch?v=ez2diB…

I’m supposed to be heading to London midweek this week for, erm, London Climate Action Week. I have a (‘minor’) heart condition. Should I even go? Echoes of fifty years ago here… the long hot summer of 1976. But guess what the max temperature during that summer was? Just 35 degrees. This week is going to absolutely smash June temperature records across the U.K. . And we are only at the start on this global super El Niño event, the worst one ever. A strategy of adaptation, transformative (and deep) adaptation, is urgent. (Please share if you agree.)

Christ not alive... 40-45%! This is extreme mass extinction levels.

We live in worrying times. We are facing a confluence of threats and we should defend ourselves against ALL of them, as I suggested on #BBC Radio 5 Live. Listen to my full interview via the link. #ElNino #Climate #defence youtube.com/watch?v=9km5rF…