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Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (“SAFER”) with Rupert Read, 12th February 2026 (6.30pm for 7pm start)
We are deep into the danger zone and about to go much deeper. The meta-crisis - of which the climate crisis is merely the leading edge - is already upon us. It will increasingly define the rest of our lives and the lives of those who come after us.
While awareness of this is growing, it has yet to break through explicitly, though more and more people sense it. Meanwhile, in some crisis-aware circles the fantasy persists that we can still call a halt to climate breakdown: admitting that we need to get serious about adaptation is seen as tantamount to ‘giving up’. Rather than what it should be seen as: showing up. Showing up to do the needful work.
As we break through the 1.5 degrees guardrail, with recent weather chaos having included devastating hurricanes across the Atlantic, deadly flooding around the world, and unprecedented rainfall here in the UK - and after another basically-failed COP - Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project, will argue it’s time to shift our strategic focus to preparedness.
With its new campaign Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience, "SAFER", the Climate Majority Project is calling for an end to the delusion that our current civilisation has a future. By instead embracing a spirit of transformative and strategic adaptation we could, even now, co-create a new civilisation.
In this interactive session, Rupert will invite us to explore questions such as: What are the consequences of this realisation, including the practical implications for how we re-plan our lives? Is it possible to become collapse-aware without becoming a doomer? How can we give fear its full due without becoming its dupe? Could adaptation-awareness, and enactment, kick-start more effective mitigation/decarbonisation? How can all of us help with the society-wide process of coming to terms with reality? Can we start to plot a way through this process and reduce the barriers to awareness? In short, can we make adaptation accessible?
Rupert’s session will include a one-pot vegetarian supper and discussion.
Jacobs Well, Trinity Lane, York, YO1 6EL
Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk starts at 7pm.
Please note that most of our events take place in an upstairs space and we do not have a lift so our venue is not fully accessible. Please get in touch if you have accessibility issues via [email protected].
We are deep into the danger zone and about to go much deeper. The meta-crisis - of which the climate crisis is merely the leading edge - is already upon us. It will increasingly define the rest of our lives and the lives of those who come after us.
While awareness of this is growing, it has yet to break through explicitly, though more and more people sense it. Meanwhile, in some crisis-aware circles the fantasy persists that we can still call a halt to climate breakdown: admitting that we need to get serious about adaptation is seen as tantamount to ‘giving up’. Rather than what it should be seen as: showing up. Showing up to do the needful work.
As we break through the 1.5 degrees guardrail, with recent weather chaos having included devastating hurricanes across the Atlantic, deadly flooding around the world, and unprecedented rainfall here in the UK - and after another basically-failed COP - Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project, will argue it’s time to shift our strategic focus to preparedness.
With its new campaign Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience, "SAFER", the Climate Majority Project is calling for an end to the delusion that our current civilisation has a future. By instead embracing a spirit of transformative and strategic adaptation we could, even now, co-create a new civilisation.
In this interactive session, Rupert will invite us to explore questions such as: What are the consequences of this realisation, including the practical implications for how we re-plan our lives? Is it possible to become collapse-aware without becoming a doomer? How can we give fear its full due without becoming its dupe? Could adaptation-awareness, and enactment, kick-start more effective mitigation/decarbonisation? How can all of us help with the society-wide process of coming to terms with reality? Can we start to plot a way through this process and reduce the barriers to awareness? In short, can we make adaptation accessible?
Rupert’s session will include a one-pot vegetarian supper and discussion.
Jacobs Well, Trinity Lane, York, YO1 6EL
Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk starts at 7pm.
Please note that most of our events take place in an upstairs space and we do not have a lift so our venue is not fully accessible. Please get in touch if you have accessibility issues via [email protected].