“To keep the world insurable, the climate crisis needs to be rapidly slowed”.

Illuminem.com

December 20, 2023

https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/an-interview-with-prof-rupert-read-to-keep-the-world-insurable-the-climate-crisis-needs-to-be-rapidly-slowed.

In this incisive interview Prof. Rupert Read shares outstanding insights into how #insurance can make or break the #environment.

“Insurers are powerful #enablers and defacto #gatekeepers to many highly extractive and destructive industries. They are party to not only the risks these industries face but also to those they created”, he recently told me.

Interestingly, a forthcoming book – ‘The Climate Majority Project’ – co-edited by him, devotes one full chapter to insurance.

For most of his life, Rupert has been committed to the cause of the environment. He recently gave up his full-time teaching role for the #ClimateMajorityProject (CMP).

“I was a spokesperson and political strategist for Extinction Rebellion and a spokesperson, national parliamentary candidate, European parliamentary candidate and councillor for the Green Party of England and Wales. I also formerly chaired the ecological think tank Green House. These have been steps on my path to the Project I now find myself co-leading”, he explains.

“Everywhere and everyone is now on the climate frontline. As a result, we need action, not just activists”, reminds Rupert.