Jem Bendell reflects on a year since the release of 'Breaking Together' by Good Works. 

You’ve had an amazing impact on millions of people around the world and you’ve changed the course and direction of people’s lives, including mine, for which I’m grateful. Knowing all this, how does this all not impact your ego in a huge way???

Thank you so much for your work Jem. I work in education and your honesty and compassion helps me greatly.

Thank you for this report and yes it is a difficult passage from an understanding and ramification to say ‘one more time from the top’ as anyone familiar with music understands. It may not be the song that is as important as its being played on; I will play it again and ‘one more time from the top’. ☘

Thanks.

Take your time with your break away from the avalanche of terrible info, and research. Deeply hope the work with music helps your heart, and mind. Thank you for your work sir, I greatly appreciate, and respect you.

Mind blowing that temperatures have jumped half a degree Celsius in a year… a process that in the past took about 500 years or more… time to batten down the hatches📝

I appreciate your work Jeremy! Thank you to both of you.

Thank you

I'm afraid too many people let power go to their heads once it's in their hands. This has happened too many times on the Left in different contexts over the past century or so. Compassionate, caring cooperative leadership is key, not top down diktat and dogmatic entrenchment.

Joe Brewer's design school for earth regenerators is collapse aware and accepting, while working on bioregional learning centres, which appears to be in total alignment with what you are saying.

I agree but I think in addition to preparing for the collapse there must be positive examples of new forms of social and political organization. My PhD dissertation explored this question of are humans capable of doing something different? My answer lies in your country’s modern matriarchies described in “Women at the Center, Life in a Modern Matriarchy” by Peggy Reeves Sunday. So that while we build villages around local food production, leadership and control of resources must shift into the hands of women and consensus governing. And continue through matrilineal structures which ensure community well being.

Shifting then moving the assemblage point of the zombie.

I am so glad I struggle with all of this being autistic. I literally dont gaf about peoples feelings. I care about being truthful and acting. I care about aligning MY life so that my very actions by definition promote the 'feelings' that all this neurotypical mumbo jumbo that has infected activism is all about. My truth is you can all keep talking this hippy shizzle till your heart stops from lack of food and it will not make a difference in this paradigm. I even consider extinction rebellion and its 'perfect' activism formula to be self manifested controlled opposition. the elites don't need to shut them down, they castrate themselves. The science of James Hansen is bang on the money and aligns PERFECTLY with the formula of Svante of 1856. We have set the thermostat to +10 and the amoc is collapsing now and everything is going to burn, drown or starve. There is no stopping it.

No ‘BAU’? ‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. - those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ? “The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders - at least within the western empire - have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ? However? 'We' are 'saved'. With the usual caveats? {but not from global heating}? “Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory Reserves totaling 511bn barrels of oil - about 10 times the North Sea’s entire 50-year output - have been reported to Moscow by Russian research ships, according to evidence given to the Commons Environment Audit Committee (EAC) last week. ”?

Anyone know the name of the anti imperialist movement Jem mentioned gail bradbrook was involved in?

finally im hearing words worth orating in this universe of bullshit