Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (“SAFER”) with Rupert Read

Tuesday November 26th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm

This event is now fully booked. To join the waiting list email events@kairos.london

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. Meanwhile, in many 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’.

As we break through the 1.5 degrees guardrail, with devastating hurricanes across the Atlantic, deadly flooding in Spain and unprecedented rainfall here in the UK - and after what will almost certainly be another failed COP - Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project, will argue it’s time to shift our focus to preparedness.

With its new campaign Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience, "SAFER", the CMP 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? 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?

The evening will include a break for a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Event starts at 7pm.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter. Food complimentary.

Before requesting a discounted ticket, please consider sincerely: Are you struggling to meet your basic needs? Would you have to make a genuine sacrifice to buy a full priced ticket? Do you have reduced earnings through a lifestyle choice or because you’re dedicating your time to unpaid work relating to the climate and nature crises?