Rupert Read

🚨 BREAKING!: Huge news:
The Government has quietly published [link below] on its website, without any fanfare, the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on
'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY'
that it suppressed last October. It has presumably done this at this point (in the middle of an international crisis) to try to bury the story. : this is a huge story. Just consider the report's title, for starters... the report warns of multiple likely ecosystem >collapses< that will have dire implications for our national security, and that require serious strategic adaptation at minimum. The report also sets out how these collapses if they are allowed to occur will significantly increase migration-pressure: "as development gains begin to reverse", a phrase that should make any human shudder in anguish. There is much more...
But it doesn't end there: what they have published very much appears to be >only part of a larger piece of work<: there is no detail at all in what they have published on the geo-regional analyses; the connections from those regional analyses to the national security threats consequently facing Britain are not detailed; the "Key Judgements" of the report are not properly explained. It is fairly obvious what has happened here: they are trying to slip this report out, in response to FOIs; but they have done so in a form that holds back much of the most disturbing content - the content that WE as citizens need to know if we are to know how to protect ourselves, what we are potentially going to have to adapt TO.
We must continue to press for the full report to be released...
But in the meantime there is much here to digest and reflect on, to put it mildly.
Kudos to those who got this out I the public domain, via FOI request. Kudos to those who commissioned and who carried out the report too; do READ this version of it (it's only short!), and let's take it from there...
Please share widely!
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

BREAKING HUGE NEWS:
The contents of a secret U.K. Govt report on Britain’s ‘critical systems’ and their grave vulnerability have just now been made public by the TIMES, for the very first time.

The report was stark in its findings, incl crucially:

“Britain’s food security…could be “at strategic risk of catastrophic failure” by 2030”.

Food was only one of the critical systems analysed in the report and found to be at risk of collapse from the end of the decade, >unless< collectively we change course to a safer, more resilient path.

READ:
https://thetimes.com/article/381266e2-4282-4b0b-ab68-c2beb36fe75c?shareToken=9866f130f6bcc1b627d973b510a762ad

Please share onwards …
#Safer

BREAKING: This national security assessment, now being broadcast for the first time after the Government tried to hush it up, makes clear what many have sensed for some time: #climate - and #nature - breakdown presents serious and escalating risks to #UK homes, food systems, health, public services, national security and the wider economy.

You will want to watch this: ‘In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal’ on #PFAS and the breaching of the novel entities planetary boundary: as it is hitting one British town.

🗓️ March 22nd.
📺️ ITV1, 10.20pm.

https://rupertsreads.substack.com/p/in-our-blood-the-forever-chemicals?r=12mt3l&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

NEW: "Tragically, we now appear to be in a new era of might-based societies."

My latest short explains the brutal way in which the far-Right enjoys lording it over underdogs and what WE need to do in response. Watch now.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SZedGVFXvzk

This revelatory news report by ITV (well done them), revealing what is in the FULL (still officially suppressed) intelligence services’ national security assessment on “Ecosystem collapse and national security” (actual title!), is an epochal shift. Not just because it very helpful and very worryingly points up our vulnerability, via worst case >scenarios<; not just because it thereby points clearly to our need for shared inner processing of these difficult realities; but crucially because of who has said it.

The messenger makes the message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59DZiPdsOc8

BREAKING: The insight in this ITV piece that is most politically revelatory IMO is that the full version of the report says that nature-damage could end up costing approximately 12% of GDP by 2030 relative to what there could have been without that damage…This is a devastating revelation, in relation to a Government that is trashing nature, and is obsessed with GDP-growth!! In my view, this is most likely why the Govt still tries to suppress the full version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59DZiPdsOc8

"Current adaptation efforts are described as “insufficient, largely incremental, often coming too late, and … not yet commensurate with the scale, pace and complexity of increasing climate risks.”

Read my latest joint article with @CarolineLucas 👇

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-02-25/the-eu-confirms-its-time-for-strategic-adaptation/

WATCH: You can tell a lot about what a culture values by its large buildings. Are they cathedrals? Palaces? Universities? Temples? Hospitals? Or are they shrines to consumerism and finance?

This civilisation is finished - but the question is how will we choose to navigate our path to what comes next?

Can we come together to create #thrutopias?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ibcxo4_9r7c

RE: @GreenRupertRead@climatejustice.social

In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal is out now. Do watch this major new ITV documentary.

https://www.itv.com/watch/in-our-blood-the-forever-chemicals-scandal-exposure/10a7502a0001B/10a7502a0001

"It only looks like sacrifice if you are thinking of people primarily as consumers. We ought to think of each other primarily as citizens..."

I was invited to be one of the witnesses on the BBC's #MoralMaze last night. We discussed standard of living versus quality of life and who should shoulder the burden in these troubled times, among other things. Well worth a listen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sr18

A shot from my major #SAFER talk at the Sustainable Communities Conference, hosted by Adrian Ramsay, in Diss last week. The event focused on two key themes: nature recovery and community energy.

More info on SAFER, a Climate Majority Project campaign for locally-led adaptation, via the link 👇

https://www.climatemajorityproject.com/campaign/safer

“I’ve argued for many years that post-growth is inevitable, desirable and essential.”

You don’t need to share my view but check out my new short where I explain why we still need a Plan B.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vndUu2MucOM

NEW: "...did he really believe what he had been saying? No, he admitted, he didn’t really believe quite a lot of it..."

My latest #Substack is about my day in the shade with Sir James Bevan, former Head of the Environment Agency. Read now.

https://rupertsreads.substack.com/p/how-those-at-the-top-land-us-in-the?r=rwlog&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

If you are pro-degrowth, then you need to read/see this. If you are pro-growth, then you need to read/see this. Above all, if you care about us being ready for potential societal destabilisation or indeed collapse, then you need to read/see this…

The new major report, on which I’m a co-author, on the case for a Plan B.

Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ID32Fon69Xu_ocbbWQhZF57IZ_dLiLUc/view

Launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5RXKrT4WM

NEW: "Enter, the Green Party, now in contention for power for the first time ever..."

Check out my new #Substack, hot on the heels of the result from the unheard-of (and massive) by-election victory for the #Greens this morning.

https://rupertsreads.substack.com/p/suddenly-who-our-next-prime-minister

For decades, we have been arguing about exactly what climate chaos will look like. Will we be able to solve these arguments while there is still time to act?

Join us on March 10 @ 8:30-9:45am GMT for the online launch of our latest report “We need a plan B: engaging with the realities of catastrophic climate risk” with authors Theo Cox, Liam Kavanagh and Rupert Read. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ejdwdsJA

Our new report explores how cascading environmental breakdown, underestimated systemic risks, and mounting evidence around climate tipping points demand serious preparation — even if they cannot be perfectly predicted (as most things in life).

>> It’s time for a serious shift:
- Beyond interminable arguments
- Embracing precaution and “no-regrets” action
- Developing a credible, attractive Plan B for national resilience, including
-- community adaptation
-- food + energy security
-- stronger local economies
-- resilient infrastructure
-- future-fit education
-- living by better values

Join us here: https://lnkd.in/ejdwdsJA

"...once we can see differently, we can live differently. When that shift spreads, individual change becomes cultural change."

This is the power of the arts. See my joint #LinkedIn post with Jess Carter on why they matter now more than ever.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/campaigning-culture-rupert-read-w2yxe/?trackingId=ZieOq5z6REO55tsoEDbVfA%3D%3D

Delighted to be invited to formally open a new #climate hub tomorrow (SAT 7th). Do come along from noon and show your support for the #Ipswich Umbella, at 5 Buttermarket, which will host talks, film screenings, group discussions, creative and educational workshops, energy transition guidance, a Repair Café, a refill station, a 'Library of Things' and a community noticeboard.

More details 👇

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25823110.ipswich-umbrella-climate-hub-open-buttermarket/