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  • The Spiritual Invitation of Climate Chaos

    The Spiritual Invitation of Climate Chaos

    What is the role of religion and spirituality in helping humanity respond to the tragic situation we face with rapid climate change?… Continue reading The Spiritual Invitation of Climate Chaos → Read more

  • Leadership for Deep Adaptation

    Leadership for Deep Adaptation

    As I am a Professor in the field of leadership research and education, it is reasonable for people to ask me “what does leadership on deep adaptation to climate chaos look like?” My first response is in the negative – that we do not need more of the kind of leadership that has been promoted… Read more

  • The Deep Adaptation Crowdfund – Let’s grow the DA community together

    The Deep Adaptation Crowdfund – Let’s grow the DA community together

    “Deep Adaptation is offering an oasis of meaning in a desert of denial. We sincerely hope it does not dry up – but that it helps many more oases to grow around the globe.” Initially bewildered about how to respond to the likely collapse of society due to climate chaos, many thousands of people are… Read more

  • Deep Adaptation Quarterly – Oct 2019

    Deep Adaptation Quarterly – Oct 2019

    Every three months, this newsletter will summarise some of the most important activities that are associated with the Deep Adaptation Forum. Did you have a conversation recently with someone about your outlook on life and society, and how things are changing for you? If they seemed interested, then you could consider forwarding them this newsletter,… Read more

  • Nature Doesn’t Do Deals – why we rise on climate

    Nature Doesn’t Do Deals – why we rise on climate

    It is easy to pick holes in it. We can question tactics, timing, scope or messaging. But climate activism works. Over the past year, non-violent activism has increased awareness of climate change, so that many politicians now refer to it as the emergency that it is. Yet within a toxic economic system that requires us… Read more

  • Please Don’t Shut up Mr Franzen – breaking the taboo on our climate tragedy

    Please Don’t Shut up Mr Franzen – breaking the taboo on our climate tragedy

    The New Yorker missed out on publishing one of the biggest stories of the year in 2017, when their neighbourhood competitor, the New York Magazine, published David Wallace-Wells’ article on whether the world would become too hot for humans. Not to be outdone, they published a piece on a similar topic two years later, by… Read more

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