Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel · 12 Aug 2020 · 286pp · 87,168 words
Jason Hickel * * * LESS IS MORE How Degrowth Will Save the World Table of Contents PREFACEBy Kofi Mawuli Klu and Rupert Read of XR INTRODUCTIONWelcome to the Anthropocene Part OneMore is Less ONECapitalism – A Creation Story TWORise of the Juggernaut THREEWill Technology Save Us? Part TwoLess is
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to continue to live on it? –Wendell Berry Preface A Vision Informed by Our Shared Vulnerablity, and by Our Solidarity By Kofi Mawuli Klu and Rupert Read of XR. Extinction Rebellion [XR] is sometimes criticised for having demands that are (too) hard to achieve. But it’s important to be clear about
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and far more sustainable world. Jason’s book interprets the world quite brilliantly. Join us now in changing it. Rebels for life, rebelling for life; Rupert Read and Kofi Mawuli Klu. England, April 2020. Introduction Welcome to the Anthropocene My heart is moved by all I cannot save. So much has been
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Mastini, Jason Hirsch, Federico de Maria, Peter Victor, Ann Pettifor, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Peter Lipman, Joan Martinez-Alier, Martin Kirk, Alnoor Ladha, Huzaifa Zoomkawala, Patrick Bond, Rupert Read, Fred Damon, Wende Marshall, The Rules team, my editors at the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and other outlets, where I first worked out many
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group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com. First published by William Heinemann in 2020 Copyright © Jason Hickel, 2020 Preface copyright © Rupert Read and Kofi Mawuli Klu 2020 The moral right of the author has been asserted Jacket design by Henry Petrides Images © Shutterstock ISBN: 978-1-473
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
by Scott Patterson · 5 Jun 2023 · 289pp · 95,046 words
, it was a ruin problem. It was just such problems that prompted Taleb, Bar-Yam, Norman, and another collaborator, the English philosopher and climate activist Rupert Read, in 2014, to write “The Precautionary Principle,” a preview of the January 2020 note that recommended dramatic, immediate action to stop the spread of Covid
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pandemic and its endless Covid variants, and more, his forecast—made more than two decades ago—seemed eerily accurate. CHAPTER 16 THIS CIVILIZATION IS FINISHED Rupert Read—dapper, trim, sandy-haired Green Party politician, Oxford-educated philosopher, spokesman for the activist environmental group Extinction Rebellion—breathed in the crisp Alpine air as
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unsustainable trajectory. Something will have to change at some point if the human race is going to survive.” Skeptics might dismiss so-called Cassandras like Rupert Read or Greta Thunberg screaming civilization is finished, but this was J.P. Freaking Morgan wringing its hands about existential risk and ruin problems. Read leaked
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change.” After she finished, Read took the microphone. “Greta Thunberg everybody!” he cheered. “What an incredible hero she is. Lighting the way for the future.” Rupert Read, however, was not optimistic about the future. The future terrified him. * * * As a child growing up in London, Read loved to travel outside the city
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we even think about designing for a future that we can’t imagine?” Taleb’s response drew directly on the work he’d done with Rupert Read as well as lessons from Antifragile. “If I am hit with a big stone I will be harmed a lot more than if I were
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this principle, let us apply it to life on earth,” he wrote. “This is the basis of the non-naïve Precautionary Principle that the philosopher Rupert Read and I are in the process of elaborating, with precise policy implications on the part of states and individuals. Everything flows—by theorems—from the
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wrote in the Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, “and might as well get good at it.” This was not a view Taleb—or Rupert Read—looked fondly upon. * * * In May 2013, Taleb and Read traveled to Hay-on-Wye, a sleepy market town in Wales, to attend a popular philosophy
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on the way, he warned. Hearing the testimony that day, one might imagine the Senators were being subjected to tongue-lashings by Greta Thunberg—or Rupert Read—not a retired grandfatherly Goldman Sachs quant and an executive at Europe’s largest money manager. The financial world, indeed, was waking up to the
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to do it.” Perhaps it’s too late, he said. Perhaps we have no choice but to roll the dice—the risk is exploding, fast. Rupert Read, for his part, argues that geoengineering is a bad bet made in bad faith. In his view, it’s a way to avoid facing up
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the outcome is certain—ruin. Avoid the dice—if that’s even an option anymore. CHAPTER 21 THE TIPPING POINT AND BEYOND In October 2021, Rupert Read stood to face a panel of magistrates in a London courtroom. He knew they’d find him guilty as charged. The previous year, he and
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the most difficult for our country in decades,” Mitsotakis said. “The climate crisis is affecting the whole planet.” Mitsotakis’s alarm wasn’t news to Rupert Read and Jem Bendell, a grim, no-nonsense professor of sustainability at the University of Cumbria. A few months before Lucifer struck Greece, the pair had
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AI, 5G and 6G, and the metaverse. All thanks to scientists and geologists like Lamont Leatherman—and the bonanza-chasing Wall Street financiers backing them. Rupert Read, unsurprisingly, was skeptical—with good reason. In his speech warning of the civilizational collapse, he said pinning our hopes on a total reordering of the
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our species can shrink those problems to almost nothing, while justifying almost anything that increases our odds of surviving long enough to spread beyond Earth.” Rupert Read thought longtermists, in a dark irony, could usher in the future apocalypse they were dead set on fending off. “The so-called ‘agents of doom
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from the storm. “My God.” There were some rare positive developments on the climate front that might have even encouraged die-hard pessimists such as Rupert Read—or Didier Sornette. In August, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin reversed his position on Biden’s climate bill and gave it the thumbs-up. Congress
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that would become Chaos Kings. This book would not have been possible without the cooperation of Mark Spitznagel, Nassim Taleb, and Brandon Yarckin. Thanks to Rupert Read, always encouraging and responsive, and Yaneer Bar-Yam, who patiently fielded my questions about complexity theory with insightful advice and guidance. Robert Litterman, an extremely
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” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3599179. CHAPTER 16: THIS CIVILIZATION IS FINISHED This chapter is based largely on multiple interviews with Rupert Read as well as video recordings of his speeches. “Any plan or policy of yours” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/greta-speech-our-house
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://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/02/ground-zero-of-lies-on-climate-artists-protest-at-london-thinktanks. “Our defense of necessity” https://writersrebel.com/rupert-reads-court-statement/. “It is time we consider the implications” https://lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf. The paper went viral https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbwpdb
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/commentary/ethical-implications-of-focusing-on-extinction-risk-by-peter-singer-2021-10. “The so-called ‘agents of doom’ ” https://www.abc.net.au/religion/rupert-read-the-dangers-of-longtermism/13977152. “The market is in a state of shock” https://www.morningstar.com.au/insights/stocks/219544/global-market-report-09
Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice
by Molly Scott Cato · 16 Dec 2008
Hopkins, Pete North, James Robertson, Helen Royall, Diana Schumacher and Tony Weekes, and from the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, Fi Macmillan, John Marjoram, Philip Booth, Rupert Read and Martin Whiteside. Special thanks to my gifted and talented daughter, Rosa, who has loaned me her laptop at times when she heartily wished to
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
by Paul Cooper · 31 Mar 2024 · 583pp · 174,033 words
, Kim MacQuarrie, Gordon F. McEwan, William H. Prescott, Irene Silverblatt, Stuart Stirling, Carl Lipo, Terry Hunt, Dan Bendrups, Robert Langdon, Katherine Routledge, John Francis Stimson, Rupert Read, Jem Bendell, David Skilton, Sven Lindqvist, Daniel Steel, Peter Wadhams, Joseph Tainter, Robert Macfarlane and Alan Weisman. Special thanks to the work of the Electronic
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, vol. 41, April 1896, pp. 237–276. —————. Worlds in the Making: The Evolution of the Universe. United States, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1908. Bendell, Jem and Rupert Read, editors. Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos. United Kingdom, Polity Press, 2021. Carrington, Damian. ‘“Insanity”: Petrostates Planning Huge Expansion of Fossil Fuels, Says
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 27 Nov 2012 · 651pp · 180,162 words
a moral philosopher. Marx was a philosopher. Kahneman and Simon are psychologist and cognitive scientist, respectively. The exception is, of course, Hayek. 3 The philosopher Rupert Read convinced me that Hayek harbored in fact a strain of naive rationalism, as did Popper, and presents convincing arguments that the two should not be
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger · 28 Jun 2020
climate change,” March 2, 2020. 103. Sonia Elks, “Suffering Eco-anxiety over Climate Change, Say Psychologists,” Reuters, September 19, 2019, https://www.reuters.com. 104. Rupert Read, “How I Talk with Children About Climate Breakdown,” YouTube (video), August 18, 2019, https://youtu.be/6Lt0jCDtYSY. 105. Zion Lights, interviewed by Andrew Neil, The
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 20 Feb 2018 · 306pp · 82,765 words
; Aaron Eliott; Jaffer Ali; Thomas Messina; Alexandru Panicci; Dan Coman; Nicholas Teague; Magued Iskander; Thibault Lécuyer; James Marsh; Arnie Schwarzvogel; Hayden Rei; John Mast-Finn; Rupert Read; Russell Roberts; Viktoria Martin; Ban Kanj Elsabeh; Vince Pomal; Graeme Michael Price; Karen Brennan; Jack Tohme; Marie-Christine Riachi; Jordan Thibodeau; Pietro Bonavita. I apologize