Rupert's Read

Love me, love my blogs: I've been asked to put together a compilation of what I consider to be my best popularly-accessible articles of the last few years... Here it is! http://shiftinggrounds.org/2014/03/progress-beyond-the-growth-fetish/ http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2397606/lets_build_a_postgrowth_economy_that_works_for_the_99.html http://www.theecologist.org/campaigning/2221766/renationalise_our_railways.html http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=7957 https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/rupert-read/climate-how-ukip-and-tory-right-will-defeat-themselves http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=6662 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/nov/13/emergencytalk http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/how-ecologism-is-the-true-heir-of-both-socialism-and-conservatism/ http://greenwordsworkshop.org/node/34 https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/rupert-read/greens-ukip-of-left https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/rupert-read/guardians-of...

My major piece on the financial crisis, politics and economics, reprinted from the _EUROPEAN REVIEW_: http://theoxfordphilosopher.com/2014/08/25/economist-kings/

My recent letter in the GUARDIAN, on Piketty, in case you missed it: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/31/constant-growth-make-most-poorer My line here is supported by this new report from the world-experts on the political economy of post-growth, Peter Victor and Tim Jackson: http://www.prosperitas.org.uk/SIGMA#.U-yiiqPCcug

Post-Piketty, this should be a no-brainer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28459473

Check out my new ECOLOGIST magazine author page: http://www.theecologist.org/search.php?q=rupert+read&offset=0&submit=Go :-)   [My articles published in RESURGENCE however are not available here; and those printed in the print edition are not easily available anywhere online]

On political communications in the age of the limits to growth: http://www.greenhousethinktank.org/files/greenhouse/home/Post_growth_commonsense_inside.pdf Have a read!

I want to thank every single person who voted Green on May 22, here in the East. You have contributed to a movement that is growing, and will only continue to grow: for Green is the future, if there is to be a future at all. It is terrifying that a Party whose basis is victim-blaming and which denies the very reality of dangerous human-influenced climate chaos has done so well at these elections (and some of the Conservative Party here are no different, by the way). I blame the tiny handful of multi-millionaires who bankroll the Party that shall remain nameless, and the national media for giving them bucketloads of coverage while ignoring the rise of the Green Party in the opinion polls during the campaign. I hope that once people realise what the Party that shall remain nameless actually stands for they will turn away from it in disgust, and turn to the Green Party, which offers a positive alternative to the old, failed parties. As for me: I am ...