Rupert Read
British philosopher and environmental campaigner; former associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia, former Green Party spokesperson and Extinction Rebellion spokesperson, and co-director of the Climate Majority Project.
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Their wordsAdaptation is harder to polarise than mitigation, because its results can be seen locally, and relatively quickly, making it easier to judge what works.
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Their wordsBefore AI, reality and truth had a built-in advantage. That has now gone.
↗This Cyber-Security Flaw was Found, What About the Next One?rupertsreads.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsthe same will soon be true of AI as is true of carbon/climate: transformative/strategic and deep adaptations to it will be required to take centre-stage: and soon.
↗This Cyber-Security Flaw was Found, What About the Next One?rupertsreads.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThey don’t understand that this will NOT hold down the cost of home-heating, that it will NOT generate meaningful tax receipts (because we subsidise these rigs so much), and that a FAR better investment would have been in heat pumps and insulation.
↗Outrage and Heartbreak: My Reaction to Jackdaw Decisionrupertsreads.substack.com
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Their wordsMy opinion: #AI should be paused and probably stopped.
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Their wordsNuclear power is slow, dirty, vastly expensive, cannot run safely during heatwaves.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsthere may come a time in the future when that oil and gas is useful for some OTHER purpose than to burn. But when it’s gone, it’s gone forever.
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Their wordsThe simple truth is that it won’t do having water companies privately owned. As we go deeper into climate and ecological breakdown, their systematic profit-driven waste and neglect will cost more and more lives.