Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
In this thought-provoking conversation at Anthropy UK's annual gathering in March 2026, Professor Rupert Read pulls no punches. Opening with a challenge to what he calls the "toxic positivity" of imagining a shiny technological future — jetpacks, robotics and all — he argues that the more honest and urgent slogan for our times is "the future is collapse." Crucially, he draws on recently released government reports to back this up, including an internal assessment warning that Britain's food supply faces catastrophic failure by 2030, and a national security report titled Ecological Collapse and National Security — documents that the government's own intelligence services produced but actively tried to suppress. For Rupert, these revelations are not a cause for despair but a call to clear-eyed, honest reckoning: we cannot prepare for what is coming if we are not allowed to know what is coming.
Rupert then turns to what can actually be done, introducing the Climate Majority Project and its #SAFER programme as a framework for meaningful, grounded action. At the heart of his message is a powerful insight: community resilience and climate resilience are not separate concerns — they are two sides of the same coin. Building stronger, better-connected communities is the climate response, and it is one that speaks directly to people's lived experiences of cost of living, vulnerability, and everyday impact — far more effectively than abstract language about net zero targets or decarbonisation timelines.
His closing provocation is both simple and urgent: the time for talking is over. What is needed now is truthfulness about the scale of what we face, the collective awareness that we are far from alone in our fears, and above all, urgent action. As Rupert frames it, all three elements — truth, solidarity, and action — must work together. Remove any one of them, and nothing will change.
#SAFER campaign: ClimateMajorityProject.com/campaign/safer
#SAFER report: drive.google.com/file/d/1fs2GsTgBrWZj4ap6el7SLN0g_iYpZfSW/view
ITV TV: We uncovered the redacted climate report the government didn’t want you to see
youtube.com/watch?v=59DZiPdsOc8
Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ | The Times UK article https://archive.ph/Gn229
The Anthropy26 national gathering was held at The Eden Project in Cornwall, England, from March 25–27, 2026. anthropy.uk
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In this thought-provoking conversation at Anthropy UK's annual gathering in March 2026, Professor Rupert Read pulls no punches. Opening with a challenge to what he calls the "toxic positivity" of imagining a shiny technological future — jetpacks, robotics and all — he argues that the more honest and urgent slogan for our times is "the future is collapse." Crucially, he draws on recently released government reports to back this up, including an internal assessment warning that Britain's food supply faces catastrophic failure by 2030, and a national security report titled Ecological Collapse and National Security — documents that the government's own intelligence services produced but actively tried to suppress. For Rupert, these revelations are not a cause for despair but a call to clear-eyed, honest reckoning: we cannot prepare for what is coming if we are not allowed to know what is coming.
Rupert then turns to what can actually be done, introducing the Climate Majority Project and its #SAFER programme as a framework for meaningful, grounded action. At the heart of his message is a powerful insight: community resilience and climate resilience are not separate concerns — they are two sides of the same coin. Building stronger, better-connected communities is the climate response, and it is one that speaks directly to people's lived experiences of cost of living, vulnerability, and everyday impact — far more effectively than abstract language about net zero targets or decarbonisation timelines.
His closing provocation is both simple and urgent: the time for talking is over. What is needed now is truthfulness about the scale of what we face, the collective awareness that we are far from alone in our fears, and above all, urgent action. As Rupert frames it, all three elements — truth, solidarity, and action — must work together. Remove any one of them, and nothing will change.
#SAFER campaign: ClimateMajorityProject.com/campaign/safer
#SAFER report: drive.google.com/file/d/1fs2GsTgBrWZj4ap6el7SLN0g_iYpZfSW/view
ITV TV: We uncovered the redacted climate report the government didn’t want you to see
youtube.com/watch?v=59DZiPdsOc8
Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ | The Times UK article https://archive.ph/Gn229
The Anthropy26 national gathering was held at The Eden Project in Cornwall, England, from March 25–27, 2026. anthropy.uk
RupertRead.net
RupertRead.substack.com
twitter.com/GreenRupertRead
https://bsky.app/profile/rupertread.bsky.social
instagram.com/RupertRead
tiktok.com/@GreenRupertRead
facebook.com/GreenRupertRead
