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  • Six Months of the Deep Adaptation Forum

    Six Months of the Deep Adaptation Forum

    A review of some of what the Deep Adaptation Forum is doing 6 months after launch in March 2019. … Continue reading Six Months of the Deep Adaptation Forum → Read more

  • Glocalising DA – launching Deep Adaptation Groups Network

    Glocalising DA – launching Deep Adaptation Groups Network

    Today a new initiative is launched to support people coming together to help each other as we face the unravelling of normal life in the face of the climate crisis. Twelve local or language-specific initiatives, that are using Facebook to convene dialogue, have joined forces with the rapidly growing and global Positive Deep Adaptation group… Read more

  • Source a Spokesperson on Deep Adaptation

    Source a Spokesperson on Deep Adaptation

    Click here for the updated version of this page The concept of Deep Adaptation to impending societal breakdown due to climate disruption is spreading around the world. It was first coined in a speech by Professor Jem Bendell in December 2016, but spread rapidly since his Deep Adaptation Paper went viral. The topic is vast,… Read more

  • A Quick Message to Lefty Intellectuals about Deep Adaptation

    A Quick Message to Lefty Intellectuals about Deep Adaptation

    I’d love to see serious discussion about what kind of economic and social justice policies are needed to reduce harm in the face of societal collapse from climate chaos. Currently, I haven’t seen much. So, in the hope of getting more decent left-wing engagement with our predicament, here is a quick invitation. Deep Adaptation is… Read more

  • Climate scientist speaks about letting down humanity and what to do about it

    Climate scientist speaks about letting down humanity and what to do about it

    Interview with climate scientist Dr Wolfgang Knorr by Professor Jem Bendell, July 2019. Preamble: In June 2019 I met with Dr Wolfgang Knorr, a climate scientist with Lund University. With his dozens of peer reviewed climate papers generating thousands of citations, it is clear he has spent decades at the heart of the climate science… Read more

  • Which experts would you recommend to present to a Citizens’ Assembly?

    Which experts would you recommend to present to a Citizens’ Assembly?

    In response to the growing recognition we are within a climate emergency and that our existing modes of politics have not been delivering policy programmes that address the nature, scale or urgency of our predicament, the idea of Citizens’ Assemblies is growing. It is one of the key demands of Extinction Rebellion. Such assemblies can… Read more

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