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This Civilisation Is Finished by Rupert Read and Samuel Alexander
Persuasive and passionate primer about the climate emergency
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EMBODYING the honesty, alarm and radicalism of Extinction Rebellion (XR), This Civilisation Is Finished is short and discursive.
It consists of email exchanges and Skype conversations between Dr Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and key figure in XR, and Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute in Melbourne.
“Civilisation is going down. It will not last,” is Read’s stark analysis of humanity’s future. “We will most likely see 3-4 degrees of global over-heat at a minimum and that is not compatible with civilisation as we know it.”
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