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Clare Farrell

@claretotty.bsky.social
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Textiles, clothing, environment, active citizen. @XRebellionUK

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What’s the most valuable currency for us today? Is it really money? I’ve learnt that trust and our relationships to each other are the real key to our survival. Please read and if you like, share around. Get in touch so we can do the work together. open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
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Money is synthetic trust; relationships are the real currency
About money as relationship and money as power; how money can keep you alive and how relationships can keep you more alive.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Would it be controversial to talk about research into a medicine that could save lives? So would it be controversial to talk about research into technologies that could help lower the extreme temperature of the planet? Here is my writing on geo-engineering this week. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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In a week of extreme heat, can we talk about geo-engineering?
This is a three-part post about meeting James Hansen, one of the most important living climate scientists. Part 2 and 3 to follow.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Politics as usual is being challenged by an upside down assembly in Islington. It was filled with amazing people dedicated to being accountable to enacting change. I’d love you to read and share, it means a lot to me. Thanks x substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Young people in Islington just turned my world upside down
How politics could work if we held spaces for people to listen and learn from each other.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I paid a visit to The New School of the Anthropocene a couple weeks ago with Brian Eno, to discuss how art and culture are a crucial part in the process if imagining new worlds. Go check out the full piece on my Substack! Clare x substack.com/@clarejfarre...
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Is creativity our instinct to help others feel?
A conversation with Brian Eno at the New School of the Anthropocene on art, design, and how to imagine the new worlds we want.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Final post from being on the panel to launch the Global Future Foundation’s new report on the psychology of populism
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is the second post taken from being on a panel on the psychology of populism. This one is about inhabiting and embodying a new story through action. Clare xx open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
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Inhabiting a new story
Prioritising the narrative, or taking action?
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My new article about Populism, and the Praxis of the non material world. We need a revolution of compassion, organised love and taking power back into our neighbourhoods to fight the rise of fascism. Thanks! x
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Big up @charliejgardner.bsky.social and the crew for another episode, biodiversity and social movements plus… green politics in the mainstream 👏🏻
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I've not posted for a while but I'm back :) & there's a whole bunch of conversations that I'd already had to help me think how we construct a new world, and will be sharing more of them soon. The next is with the brilliant, compassionate ordained deacon Simon Cross substack.com/@clarejfarre...
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Between the profoundly disruptive and the profoundly incremental
A Constructive Programme conversation with Simon Cross
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
When will [X climate impact] reach a tipping point? “We can say 20 to 30 years. It’s enough time that any normal politician can think: ‘Not my problem,’ but it’s not enough time for someone who’s aged any less than 60 to ignore it.” The temporal paradox of climate breakdown
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Relentless sun and ruthless populists: how the climate crisis will change the next 20 years
Former diplomat Arthur Snell says a heating planet is accelerating conflict and migration – and fostering a new age of empire. Democracies are dangerously unprepared, he warns
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A few weeks ago I gave the keynote speech at the Outdoor Arts UK conference, and I made a call to arms to artists to lead on the constructive resistance we need to build the new world that we need. Please watch and share around, thanks! x www.absurdintelligence.com/the-authorit...
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The Authority of the Streets
A call to arms for artists to lead the resistance.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨BREAKING NEWS! Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors. The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk. Read more here: healthforxr.com
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Yes it's necessary to prepare, but there's no adapting to a 3C world This is such a dangerous message
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‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating
Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I always really enjoy chatting to @claretotty.bsky.social but this one on solar geoengineering was particularly fascinating Scary though - what a situation to find ourselves in www.youtube.com/watch?v=c06f...
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I can’t quite believe we’re here but we are - as @charliejgardner.bsky.social says - fascinating conversation, tragic situation. I often just think what the actual fuck how could we get to this point?!
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"We need to address the causes of the causes." My conversation with Reverend Stephen G Wright was so helpful in the thinking I'm doing about how to shift frames on the climate: from carbon to systems. Please have a read and if you like it, share. Thanks! x clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/lets-addre...
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“Let’s address the causes of the causes”
A Constructive Programme conversation with Reverend Stephen G Wright
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Come join me tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more! I'm so looking forward to it :) Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I’m learning all the time about the art of bringing people together. Last weekend I was part of the team that ran Humanity Project’s national gathering, and it filled me with joy to be with such a down-to-earth, diverse, funny and loving group of people: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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The art of convening: a Humanity Project national gathering
I'm learning more and more about this practice of bringing people together.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Is the climate system more sensitive to CO2 than we thought? What were the impacts of this summer's heatwaves, and how can cities adapt? Will extreme weather shocks catalyse climate action? New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS7...
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
On the release of Roger Hallam from prison - a really good time to remind ourselves of the ongoing problem of police and media collusion. The work to build new institutions that serve the people and not the state continues. Please share if you can. Thanks dears! x substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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On Roger's release - my speech at the appeal for the Whole Truth Five
My friend Roger Hallam is out of prison, but the work to build new democratic institutions continues.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Fabulous piece Alanna! Totally agree x
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I want to ask you to reflect on a basic human experience of wanting to fit in, and how, in many parts of culture, why we don't grow out of those immature behaviours, and how action on climate has been caught up in this - including calls for Climate Justice clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
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Is Climate Justice possible? Part 3
Justice requires elder wisdom and a willingness to be vulnerable, not an immature willingness to fit in at any cost.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Last night I watched Mean Girls, and it made me realise quite a lot about climate justice. It's a teen comedy but it's good! It says a lot about human behaviour, consumerism, and how our sense of safety is woven with our sense of identity. Part 2 of 3: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
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Is Climate Justice possible? Part 2
Mean Girls and memetic desire have helped me understand what happens when you try to change someone's mind about justice.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Let me just say, I'm not trying to start a fight! Even if the algorithm wants it... but I do think there's an important conversation to have around where we're at with "climate justice" in a time of almost certain collapse. Wld love you to read and share x clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
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Is Climate Justice possible? Part 1
This post is in three parts, to take some time and depth to properly grapple with a complex and important issue in the climate and democracy movements.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Nothing makes sense any more when nonviolent dissent is made a false equivalence with erasing an entire people. Please share before Monday, when doing so could be illegal and end you up in prison. With love and support for @palaction.bsky.social 🇵🇸 open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
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Nothing makes sense any more - in solidarity with Palestine Action
Everything is out of proportion because it suits those who abuse power to keep it that way.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It took time to think about Vance’s speech in Munich on ‘the retreat of free speech’ but going via Timothy Snyder, Hannah Arendt and others I’m convinced that the imbalance of freedom can be rebalanced with the ‘right to be listened to’. Please share, thanks loves! x substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The imbalance of freedom: part 2
To regain our freedom, we have to act free and demand our right to be listened to
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
As friends of mine continue to get locked up for nonviolent resistance for fighting the climate disaster, it's our job to educate ourselves on both nonviolence and violence. There's no better place to begin than with Hannah Arendt. My thoughts. Please share! Tx open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
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Educating myself on violence
The 1969 book On Violence by Hannah Arendt is essential for those of us who advocate nonviolence as an approach to conflict and peace.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
What else is going on with the idea that we're an 'island of strangers'. Is it valid? Is this how people feel? Spoiler: it's not immigration, sorry Keir/Nige. Why do we feel isolated & alone. My friend Alanna @absurdintelligence.bsky.social gets into it: www.absurdintelligence.com/island-of-st...
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Island of strangers?
The outrage over echoes of Enoch are valid, but the deeper question remains: where *are* our communities?
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Most of us don't think much about why we're here. We've abandoned institutions that help us have those conversations about what being means. In the midst of a crisis that's existential AND exponential, to me it's catastrophic not to talk about why we 'are' clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/exponentia...
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Exponential x Existential = The Problem
Most of us don't have a sense of why we're here; that's stopping us from dealing with crisis.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Context needs to survive, or we won't. But in their lurch to hoard wealth and power, the super-rich and their political elites set out to destroy context, and so destroy us. Democracy dies with no context. So what can we do about it? My new post, please read + share <3 substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Context needs to survive, or we won’t
Without understanding the context of the world we’re in, the super-rich elite can govern us to our deaths without resistance
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social We discussed fatal wet bulb temperatures, the future of forests, what nature tells us about human migration, activist jail sentences and all sorts of similarly fun stuff
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Wet bulb disasters, importing trees, and prison update | NFAWIF | XRUK
YouTube video by Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I do this work because I believe in people, love people and trust people. If you reflect the goodness of humanity back at us, then you're the kind of person I want at our convention! Have a read: www.absurdintelligence.com/on-reflectin...
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On reflecting the goodness of humanity: an invitation
Are you ready to collaborate on how we decide our fate?
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to. So if we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond? My latest, please subscribe (freely) and share (also freely!) substack.com/home/post/p-...
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If we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond?
The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thanks Alex! 🙏
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our friend and collaborator David Bent, founder of Atelier of What’s Next, dismayed with Trump’s terrible mathematics and with the commentariat’s forgetfulness of the wider agenda, weighs in with some sound algebra of his own. www.absurdintelligence.com/trumps-tarif...
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Trump’s Tariffs on the X-Y Axis of Evil
Our friend and collaborator David Bent, founder of Atelier of What’s Next, dismayed like many with Trump’s terrible mathematics and with the commentariat’s forgetfulness of the wider agenda, weighs in...
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Citizen’s Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Thames Water executives citizen’s arrested at their offices this morning. It’s time someone held these criminals to account for the harm and disruption they are causing to our lives. Follow for updates. #CitizensArrest #ThamesWater
Environment, Pollution, Thames Water, CEO, Citizen's Arrest, Thames Water executives citizen's arrested for crimes of public nuisance. Woman in blue jacket seen leaving the offices of Thames Water in Reading UK Tuesday 18th March.
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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Is @channel4tv.bsky.social paying attention to this?
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Absurd Intelligence @absurdintelligence.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
One tactic of the fossil-fuel lobby is to denigrate activists/activism to weaken our challenges to their hoarding of wealth through status quo destructive projects. It's our job to counter that & rehabilitate activism. Great piece by @nualalam.bsky.social www.absurdintelligence.com/how-do-we-re...
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How do we rehabilitate activism?
There’s a clear strategy behind the character assassination of climate activists – it’s our job to counter it
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