Love and ecological collapse: Joseph Jones hears Rupert Read give this year’s Salter Lecture

‘There is nothing humans need more than meaning.’

'There will be tears, and dark nights. There will be impossible heartbreak… and magnificent joy.’ | Photo: Rupert Read

The question ahead of this year’s Salter Lecture – ‘The Horrible, Wonderful Truth About Climate’ – was not whether Friends would find its subject matter important, but whether anything new could be said on an issue that already unites most Quakers – often to the point of exhaustion. In finding Rupert Read, the Quaker Socialist Society, which organises the lecture, secured a clear ‘yes’.

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