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After Angry Acceptance: Fifteen Unhelpful Responses to Anticipating Collapse
Since I began to pay attention to how people respond to their anticipation of collapse, I have learned that the responses are far more diverse than I could have ever imagined before I stopped suppressing my own anticipation. After the Deep Adaptation paper came out I wrote about the myriad responses that seemed reasonable to… Read more
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Jem Bendell presents to Extinction Rebellion on honesty about disruptions ahead
Video and transcript of a talk to XR on the need to discuss disruption and adaptation within campaigning. … Continue reading Jem Bendell presents to Extinction Rebellion on honesty about disruptions ahead → Read more
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An Ode to Mauna Loa
An Ode to Mauna Loa: Breaking together with the living One At 421.21 ppmFeedback screams its piercing soundRising rates after lockdownWe’re falling downthe Long Mountain of Life We’ll turn away no moreAs the breaking of Lifereturns to our threshold. What was pretended now breaks apartBoth in us and aroundWe’re breaking together with the living One. Read more
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Facilitating wisdom not fascism – the #DeepAdaptation way
How might we help increasingly distressed societies avoid a descent into authoritarian and or fascist governments? This is a question on the minds and hearts of many people who anticipate further disruption, breakdown or even collapse of societies due to the direct and indirect impacts of environmental change. Even with the COVID-19 pandemic, we witness… Read more
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What Is It Too Late for? Poem to Mark the Scientist Rebellion
“Why We Rebel? Scientists have spent decades writing papers, advising government, briefing the press: all have failed. What is the point in documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we are not willing to do anything about it?” Scientist Rebellion, 2021 Some have called it a 4-day climate hunger strike. During my… Read more
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The Deep Adaptation Quarterly – March 2021
A concise summary of activities in a global movement of deep adaptation… Continue reading The Deep Adaptation Quarterly – March 2021 → Read more
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