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‘This civilization as we know it is finished’
Ian Sinclair speaks to Professor RUPERT READ about his new book Why Climate Breakdown Matters and its apocalyptic predictions

PROFESSOR Rupert Read has devoted a huge amount of his life to green politics – as a Green Party member, councillor, parliamentary candidate and spokesperson, as an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, and in 2019 as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, appearing on BBC Question Time.
With his new book Why Climate Breakdown Matters (reviewed in the Morning Star on Monday October 24) just out, Ian Sinclair asked Read about why he thinks this civilisation is finished, the importance of telling the truth about the climate crisis and where the green movement goes from here.
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