Meeting the Coming World
The appeal of post-activism–a walk into the desert beyond the last swimming pool, is an escape from human centrality, an intention to tend the wounds we have inflicted on our world, on ourselves, by presuming humans alone are the drivers of social change.
I’ve been in a rage since before the financial collapse of 2008. Well, actually, a good deal longer than that.
I could be pushing myself into ‘activism,’ reaching out to interact in a larger process or to articulate a view of what is important, communicating with others and formulating strategies, a timeline of objectives. But all of that is falling away.
The basis of Jem Bendell’s original and revised paper on climate-induced societal collapse and Deep Adaptation was his review of current climate
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster.
Each of the 4Rs of Deep Adaptation, Resilience, Restoration, Relinquishing and Reconciliation is a searching journey from the world we
Jem Bendell has been criticized for promoting what some call “The Doomasphere,” –a dark vision of the future–though until now
If we have no fear, there is no thinking. No conceptual mind. And vice versa. No thinking, no fear. —Tsoknyi
Is Deep Adaptation simply scary talk? Unscientific hyperbole? Depressing fatalism? The irony of climate hyperbole is that while many people
This is a fresh and unique 34 minute video, produced by Jem Bendell, about a 13 year-old’s exploration of climate
Spontaneous Presence 