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  • Debating the Pros and Cons of Deep Adaptation? Start Here with a New Edition of Original Paper

    Debating the Pros and Cons of Deep Adaptation? Start Here with a New Edition of Original Paper

    Two years after the original 2018 Deep Adaptation paper was released, an updated version is now available.  It is only one paper within an increasing field of academic scholarship on dangerous climate change and societal collapse. However, given that it is so widely referenced by proponents and critics, an updated version may be helpful.  This… Read more

  • The Creativity and Agency of Collapse-Anticipation

    The Creativity and Agency of Collapse-Anticipation

    The Deep Adaptation agenda, framework and Forum is offered for anyone with any level of anticipation or experience of societal collapse. Whether people consider such a breakdown to be possible, probable, inevitable or already occurring, there is clearly a need to hold the space open for creativity and action from that basis. Since its launch in… Read more

  • Letter to Deep Adaptation Advocate Volunteers about Misrepresentations of the Agenda and Movement

    Letter to Deep Adaptation Advocate Volunteers about Misrepresentations of the Agenda and Movement

    Update: You can read a detailed response to the criticisms in the Open Democracy essay here, and reflections on some lessons and a revised edition of the Deep Adaptation paper here.  A response from Transition Towns co-founder in the Ecologist to the criticism is here. Dear DA Advocates, I write to inform you about an… Read more

  • Why do modern humans oppress and destroy life on Earth? And what to do about it?

    Why do modern humans oppress and destroy life on Earth? And what to do about it?

    That modern humans have been oppressing and destroying life on Earth is the most obvious and salient observational fact of our time. I am interested in the deepest reasons for that, beneath the injuries from colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, anthropocentrism and such like. The core ‘why’ that is found within the collective psyche of modern humans,… Read more

  • The Collapse of Ideology and the End of Escape

    The Collapse of Ideology and the End of Escape

    An essay on the deeper causes and implications of climate-driven societal breakdown, by Professor Jem Bendell. (Long Read – 10,000 words) Introduction If you have begun to anticipate the climate-driven collapse of societies, what can you wish for? I have written elsewhere about the problems of being attached to hope, if that means we falsely… Read more

  • Learning to Lead Deep Adaptation – join a course

    Learning to Lead Deep Adaptation – join a course

    I am pleased to announce the University of Cumbria are now taking enrolments for two short academic courses on Deep Adaptation leadership. These are the only academic short courses on DA that I intend to teach over the next 12 months. One option is an online course, with times suitable from East Coast USA to… Read more

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