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Should we discuss our anticipation of collapse?
This is the foreword to “The Responsibility of Communicating Difficult Truths About Climate Influenced Societal Disruption and Collapse: An Introduction to Psychological Research” which provides a synthesis of some relevant peer-reviewed literature within the field of psychology. An audio of this foreword is available. Professor Jem Bendell, University of Cumbria, UK. Your anxiety or even… Read more
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Why make time to feel when there is a world to save?
My steps with integrating international development and deep adaptation. Guest post by Dr Malika Virah Sawmy. It’s heart breaking to witness how intentions are real and absolutely beautiful in international development. Everyone wants a more beautiful and fairer world. But the issue is how we manifest those intentions. How do we manifest the more beautiful… Read more
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As non-violence is non-negotiable we must have tough conversations
The commitment to nonviolence in climate activism and deep adaptation is a central principle and we must criticise anyone who suggests otherwise. The risks of tolerating any deviation from this principle are too great & therefore we have no choice but to risk painful reactions, even from colleagues, when confronting it. Trying to reduce harm… Read more
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Discuss #DeepAdaptation with experts in 2021
My Deep Adaptation Q&As are back for 2021. In these discussions, a guest shares their own perspective on what matters to them as we consider, or respond to, societal disruption and collapse. The Deep Adaptation framework is for dialogue, without one right way of responding to our environmental predicament, or one source of knowledge on… Read more
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COVID and Climate Change – why XR must visit the WHO
New research confirms the role of climate change in making diseases like COVID-19, which come from wildlife, more likely, by direct and indirect effects, working in concert with other environmental damage. Yep, shocking. I use the words “more likely” and “like” in that sentence, reflecting scientific method and norm for communicating conclusions. In hypercomplex systems… Read more
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Taking Climate Adaptation to Heart – talks by Jem Bendell
If you are currently trying to make better sense of societal disruptions and your future in a climate-disturbed world, then I believe ‘Deep Adaptation’ to be of use to you. It is the ethos and framework for a movement of people who consider the collapse of industrial consumer societies to be either probable, inevitable or… Read more
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