Is the Climate Armageddon a Part of the Moderate Flank?

6min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Hagen: We are currently a 19 terawatt global culture that at any given time the power usage around the planet is 19 terawatts. Simon Rishow has said we need to reduce that to five terawatts for the multipolar crisis to be less critical and that that involves radical change. Hagen: The immediate battle is to start to get large institutions and more institutions as well turning in the right direction so they can help people on their journey of transformation.

Rupert Read is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, but he is also a Green party activist, and a prolific speaker, media spokesperson and author advocating for a wholehearted, whole-culture response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency.

A long-term friend of the podcast, Rupert joins us today to talk about his new book: 'Do You Want to Know the Truth: The Surprising Rewards of Climate Honesty' and to announce the launch of a new movement, the Moderate Flank, which aims to bring together a moderate majority of people who care deeply about anthropogenic climate change, but don't want to engage in polarising actions. In this deeply honest, raw episode, Rupert makes a passionate case for an anti-polarising movement which can engage people from all walks of life and furnish them with the tools for change that will help us to adapt to the coming changes - and to ensure that politically, economically, culturally, we create a more just, equitable - and regenerative - society that we can leave to the generations that come after us.

Rupert's new book https://249897.e-junkie.com/product/1756224/Do-you-want-to-know-the-truth3F-The-surprising-rewards-of-climate-honesty

Rupert's Website https://rupertread.net/
Rupert's SubStack: https://rupertread.substack.com/
Rupert on Twitter https://twitter.com/GreenRupertRead
Moderate Flank: https://moderateflank.org