Jem Bendell | What Could Possibly Go Right?

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Dr. Jem Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership with the University of Cumbria and Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum. He works as a researcher, educator, and advisor on social and organizational change, with over 25 years experience in sustainable development initiatives in over 20 countries. In 2018, he authored the viral Deep Adaptation paper, downloaded around a million times.
Jem addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- That “people are changing their lives because of their anticipation of collapse, to relate more openly and wanting to do what's right, come what may.”
- That “holding space for each other and our difficult emotions has led to a new quality of engagement.”
- That Deep Adaptation invites people into a different way of talking about crisis response and emotions - fostering compassion, curiosity, and respect.
- That sustainable development may be a delusion, but we can ready ourselves for societal disruption to help others with our skills and networks.
Resources
- Auroville intentional community, southern India auroville.org/
- Book: “How Everything Can Collapse” by Momentum Institute politybooks.com/bookdetail/?i...
- Paper: Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell jembendell.com/2019/05/15/dee...
- International Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse jembendell.com/2021/03/05/lau...
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Connect with Jem
Website: jembendell.com & deepadaptation.info
Twitter: jembendell
Facebook group: groups/deepadaptation
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29 мар 2021

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@aliquot 2 года назад

I have certainly been through the stages of climate grief as I learned of the possible climate tragedy to come. But when one comes through to the acceptance part, there is a clarity that comes that compels one to act. I’m in such a stage and actually now planning for a major career shift more in line with my values and in the direction of helping people become resilient through whatever may come

@doviejames Год назад

I appreciate this very much. I've been going thru a very similar process for the last decade after 30 of previous environmental activism. Shedding old dreams and the identity they upheld.... lots of greiving but also emerging into something clearer and more real. The only part that seems exotic to me is the idea that this process puts you in contact with others who are in a similar place.... perhaps it has for professor Bendell, who is an academic and has worked in very related fields. But for a construction worker like me it has been nothing but alienating and increasingly surreal, out in the "real" world there are very few people who have the background knowledge and the emotional fortitude to admit to themselves what is happening and what it'll bring and they don't appreciate anyone undermining their increasingly tenuous hold on normativity.

@pascalw.paradis8954 2 года назад

10 minutes in ,,,, good god let him talk. ❤️❤️🌎❤️❤️

@christinearmington Год назад

Yep. Came to say that. Technically 8:30

@elisabethdevyt8256 Год назад

A great talk. Fragile honest human real truth. Thank you both. I was stunned by the essay "Deep Adaptation". But it was clear the Belgians, my own friends, my family were not ready to accept, to grieve for CC. They disrespecyed my studies while I was grieving in silence with alone but as figures as you both. "Elisabeth, you may NOT talk about CC to the children. The children of my brother (who died also my mother and father). They are now 22 and 23 years old. They deny a 100% climate change. There is because of this such a distance between family-members. I broke up with my friend. His livelyhood is dependent of the climate growing gardenplants in 5ha greenhouses. It's hot and humid. But when I said that cattle 'emmits' a powerful greenhouse-gas, he found it hilarious. He clings to family-tradition. Cows are necessary for our daily diet and they eat daily meat of half a cow in their deepfreeze. I tried to expkain the process of methabe-release in the Arctic because of the melting. I said it is a ticking timebomb. They laughed. My friend and his family. "So the earth is going to fart. We will no hear or smell it. You're funny with your urban ideas. You are from time. You do not understand Nature. I was so hurted, I went home and never saw them again. Will the CC lead to divorces too? Next to violence, rage whatever. Because our standard media are too cowardly to mention once the climate change and it's consecuences? I in a second stage of grieve. Alienating from my own family community and country.

@Bee_Bill287 Год назад

When I looked at the data a few years back, it was like shit and WTF. I then started to get my house ready to go off grid, designed my own solar off grid system and it was at that point I realized green energy won't work, so I scraped the idea and accepted near term human extinction, now I just spend as much time as I can with my family and wait for it to begin in my white privileged world and at the same time hope it won't be that bad up till the end.

@pseudonamed 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing

@drrbrt 3 года назад

Loving response is what got us here. If Capitalists had lost the cold war the brakes would have been thrown on unnecessary production. Dead billionaires is the answer