The New Moderate Flank

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In 2018 we started something with Extinction Rebellion and the School Climate Strikes which over the next 12 months or so played out in a way that had a dramatic effect on public opinion around the world. In countries like the UK consciousness was raised on climate and to some extent nature and ecology to an extent that it never had been before. So what next do you carry on doing the same kind of thing as just stop oil has done? Is there also crucially a place for saying actually what we need to do is to exploit the achievement of the radical flank?" "The greatest compliment we can pay now to what we accomplished in Extinction Rebellion," says XR, 'is to enable a far larger

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