TV documentary on collapse readiness 

If you look at one of the early comments replied to by Jem, it is RU-vid that has applied these. I think ' Documentary ' videos have it done as an algorithm feature.

Well stated. I first realized our situation in the late 60's and have been observing it worsening ever since. I like what you said "Action is the antidote to despair, my action is personal and one to one, Hope is illusionary, acceptance is Peace." A quote from Sting goes "Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one." And there are no magic wands. Peace my Friend, Namaste

Nothing can be done. A resistance needs secure comms. That will never happen.

We were dragged. Old family trees were very important to us, but plants did not glow in the dark.

Thank you. I've been doing this for seven years, and still in reality people are not receptive to hearing the truth.

Thank you so much for the sacrifice and bravery xx

We will be unable to deny it in a few short years. Just a shame they wasted decades of time when we could have made it less bad.

A lot of people are faced with the truth, and when they are faced with it, they bully and shamed the people who are talking about it from making them uncomfortable. And their knee-jerk reaction is shaming. Talk about collapse and you’re an unhinged conspiracy theorist and a doomer with mental health problems. Problem is most people _don’t want to hear the truth_ and will actively avoid it, and try and prevent other people from speaking on it. The normalcy bias is so strong, and it’s frankly suicidal.

We have heard the message loudly for 65 years+. We need people that DO things to mitigate the stress and help the recovery, not pander to affluent arts majors.

Welp, that long comment I left under yours disappeared but I’m still getting notifications. Weird. People also deny the truth, and don’t want to hear it.

True. It is rare that any of this makes it into the mainstream, or even onto popular podcasts. Then we face 'visibility filtering' by bigtech for being too alarmist for their corporate-funded 'fact checkers'. Something I mentioned in the concluding of a project to warn policy makers: jembendell.com/2024/07/03/no-more-warnings-needed-an-intransigent-managerial-class-must-be-sidestepped/

Make anything up. JFC. These people are lost

Have a positive attitude! I'm positive dangerous climate change is here NOW!

hope that a civilisation living unsustainably can carry on living the same life but somehow in a sustainable way, people hope for the impossible. it also really helps if you are completely uneducated on the topic, which would appear to be most people.

Future generations. For what we can accomplish in securing them their future

The Green New Deal is a first step in bringing humans together in cooperation for each others health and well being. There may be others, but bringing humans together to care about more than our individual "success" is core

Yeah, no one wants to talk about it with me either. I'll say something about it but they never engage in the topic.

In 76, they said it was an ice age that was coming. In the 80s, it was hole in the ozone . Then I think they discovered there always was a hole in the ozone. Then global warming, but that didn't describe what was happening, so now it's climate change. Co2 is .04 % of the atmosphere. The only thing people agree with is that a cleaner world makes sense. These climate models are not absolute. I see a lot of green new deal through the comments. What would that really accomplish . Like Carl Sagan said, if you can't get China and India on board with such a plan it wouldn't work. And they're busy pulling there population out of poverty so they will do what they have to do. The world isn't ending in 10 years because of climate change.

Why is it the people who give climate hysteria also give transgender hysteria or right wing racists hysteria ....covid hysteria. Are they correct. ? Or hysterical 🤔

@@Whowhatwherewhen5 First, 7 million people died of COVID and Republicans died at higher rates then Dems, so the GOP shouldn't have pooh-poohed it. Second, racism has been a real plague on society for 500 years, and although it's much better, it still isn't fixed, so that's not "hysteria" either. Meanwhile, thousands of research studies and intensifying climate disasters prove that the climate crisis is real and threatens our future, so calling that "hysteria" just signals that you don't know the science. Take care.

The Bodhi tree was/is a type of banyan tree that drops these little fruits, sort of figs the size of peas. My mom used to hate 'em and always bitch about them. It makes me laugh that the tree my mother disliked so much is the actual bodhi tree.

Yep, in the book I talk about positive pessimism. In a recent talk in Hungary, I went further to recognize the full power of sacred pessimism. jembendell.com/2024/04/29/sacred-pessimism-a-talk-to-mark-5-years-of-a-new-movement/

‘I hated that camp’ caught me off guard and made me chuckle 😂

Gotta admit, I smashed that like button before even watching 🤣

Saw what you did there.

@@Bolanboogie10 yeah, low hanging fruit.

Same. I am terrified for the kind of world my kids and their children will experience. It's happening now and I'm sick over it. If last summer didn't get people's attention I don't know what will. They all think their air conditioners will keep them safe and it's business as usual. It's totally bonkers.

Its 125 in NV

Looks like summer to me

133 degrees 7/9

For everyone who's not a Yank, 124/125 in Freedom Eagle Units is 51C.

@@cabalavatar official proffesional weather station measuring air temperature?

Totally agree with your frustration. It’s not that hard, to commit to a learning process. Especially when it’s a topic that has everything to do with every aspect of life lol Reading and listening and then discerning a bit, to weed out what’s maybe only partially true or warped and distorted info, and then quite simply arrive at such a sane, grounded and undebatable understanding of collapse. Most minds alive today could manage this. And they don’t and won’t. Purely choice.

My father was up front with me when I asked him if man-made climate change was real. "Yes." was his answer. When I asked what can be done about it, "Not much." This was 40 years ago.

@@therealdesidaru he should write a book, really has a way with words.

It's not his fault, it's by design. Ever notice that even the leftest, most progressive news outlets just... don't really talk about climate change? There's no effort - at all - going on in society to try and inoculate against denial, right-wing propaganda or conspiracy theories. And that's because the rich own the media. They have an agenda to just... tone it down. Your dad is a victim of intentionally bad education.

Yep, the corporate corrupting of the scientific process, its communication and application, has led to many people distrusting authority on matters that involve science so they are then mislead by opportunists on social media, or disengage. I have had to accept that this distortion of knowledge and communication is itself an aspect of societal collapse and I will continue to share insights from rational, diligent, systemic and salient analysis without the likelihood it either makes a significant impact at scale in society or reaches all the people most important to me. It is why I gave a whole chapter to the topic of 'critical wisdom' soundcloud.com/jem-bendell/freedom-to-know-critical

it’s a shame in that cave awaits a huge fuck-off bear that tears everyone to shreds

Eh?

Pandora's box. What was left behind (hope) was the curse.

Better late than never for sure. Realizing how destructive a typical act like shopping or vehicular travel is surely is an initial part of waking up. Of course that doesn't mean it will end just because it is non sustainable. Soon enough (an eventuality) folks will find collapse will rob them of the fantasy of escape into consumerism and holding on to the status quo. It will be too late to find the personal center that had required attention for many years. So start now. Sit on the floor till it hurts. That may be the beginning of activism.

Meat and dairy? Grow up. Stop driving for pleasure. Stop running your AC to 65 when it's 100 out. Pick up someone else's trash. Everyone wants everyone else to do the work but they themselves don't budge. No one wants to make any sacrifices. Especially Westerners and especially USA citizens

RU-vid blocking comments again

Increase you meat intake if it's not the daily recommended amount, we feed more crop waste than feed we grow for them and the little bit we do grow specifically for them, is not going to replace all that we get and crop based is all around profit and increased turnover. Eat the fat, beef or lamb is mostly grass fed on non arable land, so it's the cleanest food available and most environmentally friendly. Stop eating crop foods that are destroying the planet and eat less, overall.

A small percent of an eight billionth of 6 percent of the issue doesnt doesn't do much. Blaming individuals is literally fossil fuel marketing. If we don't entirely shut down the top 100 polluters who represent over 70% of the issue there's almost no point whatsoever to individual efforts (many of which are not actually having any meaningful impact and in some cases are exacerbating the problem. Even those you mentioned. Yes, we should be examining a "less" economy. Less need for pointless jobs and businesses. Less need for massive commuting. Less need for industrial plastics and fossil fuels and mining. But we should be examining these issues as a collective society. Not as individuals. And we should be demanding such societal efforts and condemning anyone who pretends individual actions amount to much. As he said in the film, most people are dependent on the societal structure. Asking that person not to depend on it is completely unrealistic.

It’s supposed to hit Texas on Monday. Not past tense yet.

I sincerely hope people grasp the fact that there are those that want to play god are diddling with the weather right now as is increasingly now being admitted. Enough said

Word up brotha

It’s been burning up here 😢

So what exactly are you doing in Seattle to change things?

​@@LilyGazouNot judging would be a good start for you.

Yes. Be both helping people into the lifeboats and fiddling 🎻 away while we sink.❤

I live in a compact city In a mixed-use neighborhood where I can walk to just about everything. When I go to the suburbs which are so sprawling and wasteful and so car dependent, that’s when I feel disgust. I guess we’re all disgusted by something.

Yes, wonderfully clear, the good and the bad.

Thank you. I hope you get to convene people for wonderful connection and expression via a new venue!

Glad you enjoyed it

Well...stop eating plants,cause they are also feeling beings. The fact that you are not able to feel their emotions just shows you are not as conscious of life as you believe yourself to be.

@@pepeespanol3312 What do the animals you eat, eat before you eat them? Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO Animal agriculture uses 83% of farmland and only provides 18% of calories. When we switch to a plant based food system, we can restore/reforest 76% of farmland AND be able to feed everyone. -J. Poore, Oxford, journal Science If you believe you are conscious of life or care about plants or believe you're intelligent, do you think contributing to the leading causes of plant deaths is hypocritical? FYI - Plants, unlike us animals, do not have a brain or nervous system to experience pain or emotions. But even if we pretend they do, those that kill animals are responsible for all the plants those animals killed, including the forests killed to grow those plants.

@@leviahimsa First,l don't eat animals. Second:: agriculture is the main reason for life decline. To provide you all the vegies you need,million after million of animals and plants are poisoned every day to keep your crops "" healthy" and productive.I grow my own food,so,l know what l am talking. After harvesting,before anything gets to your table,transportation is needed.Thousands of miles of roads and railways,with all the destruction and pollution they entail.Plus,trucks,trains and ships

I'm a uk beef farmer, I can see what I'm doing I can see the wrong in it. But, like every normal being I'm stuck in a cycle that needs me to earn money and there is no money left to change path. I have an agreement with myself thst when this doom loop ends I'm becoming self sufficient vegetarian

@@user-jc4xe5cs4t I really admire your sharing and principles of changing the cycle. It's so important that we support farmers like you - they provide sustenance for so many. 🙏 The TransFARMation Project by Mercy For Animals offers help to change the cycle and continue to provide for themselves and our communities as we continue to grow. 🌎

Take that question and many others u will have to the community at www.deepadaptation.info

Exactly what we should be asking.

I would like to hear more about the rituals too in detail if possible - I would like to implement them in my life.

@@LizabettRusso 👋 there are 2 books I can recommend for further reading. Root and Ritual by Becca Piastrelli and Rituals for Life by Isla McCleod. One American and one British

Speaking of rituals, how about that Extinction Rebellion protest? Singing, like they were in a church singing hymns, and getting arrested, like they were doing something worthwhile. Bunch of idiots.

@@davidjohnzenocollins I think they hope to raise awareness by peaceful protest rather than the oft destructive and disruptive attention sought by Stop Oil. Perhaps it’s a way for them to feel part of a collective voice… I’m not a member I’m just thinking how people choose a response that feels right to them.

Yeah and who feeds and houses the people who don't work? Know a lot of welfare communities where people live healthy, happy lives? No? We already need everyone who's willing to work to do so now to pay for all the retirees and people who don't.

@@alanj9978 good grief...If you read my post you sure as hell managed NOT to understand what I said.

We would need some significant genetic mutations for that

We would need some significant genetic mutations for that

Remember: exponential growth not only means exponential growth in energy consumption, but also exponential growth in environmental harms. The global industrial civilization in its last year will cause more damage on the environment than the last five years before, the last five yeas before will cause more damage on the environment than the last twenty years before that and so on ...

Yes, and I can see it all around me. UK

@@juliebarks3195 And yet all we hear from politicians is 'growth, growth, growth' and 'have more babies'! Groan...

@@russtaylor2122 omg yea the people demanding a baby bubble. 🫧

@@playinglifeoneasy9226the newcomers are having the babies. The most common name?

"Dreary England" is supposed to get dryer with a slowing Amoc and with that the thermal equator is supposed to move south towards Bali, so that would become hotter.

Polar reflectivity is a bit different than just the color. Unfortunately, we could paint every surface we can find but the impact would be local. Your home would cool differently for example... but in terms of the reflectivity... the heat reflected in such cases is just reflected into the atmosphere. And the thermal equilibrium of the planet doesn't change. The poles do a lot more than just reflect light and do so on a massive scale. Not to say we shouldn't think about such solutions. We should. But this one also comes with problems of its own for rather minimal localized effect.

Exactly

It is interesting that we don’t hear more about this. I’m beginning to wonder if the lack of discussion on this is purposeful and not just a coincidence.

Climate disruption is pushing up food prices around the world. People who care about poorer people care about that reality. x.com/jembendell/status/1808491851277906167

@@jembendell your out of touch as hell, shut up.

@@jembendell and youtube censored my reply. all I can say is youtube stop recommending this c $ r a-p to me. thanks.

Printing money is what's driving up food prices. Co2 is .04 precedent of the atmosphere. Even if all your molded are 100% correct, which they're not , nuclear is the only answer. At least Bill Gates knows this. Oil is dirty, and scarcity is a problem, and if other technologies replace it... good. Listen to people regarding the logistics and reality that go with your "solutions" to these issues. All the comments I read are from left minded people with the " others are the problem" solution to everything. Then it becomes political, and that's the motivating factor.

@@Jadstar1 enjoy the hot house effect

Personally I think it was a good thing to at least mention privilege, and the fact that Jem was able to move to Bali, which is literally one of the most desirable places to live in the whole world (remember the movie Eat, Pray, Love?). Not everybody is able to do that.

He hasn’t gone there for a knees up. He’s developing a school for regenerative farming, he’s helping people that really want/need the help. I’m not saying he’s doing it completely selflessly either, the way of life there could be a big influencing factor in his decision but so what? He’s tried informing The West for years to no avail. I imagine directly helping those in need who appreciate it is far more rewarding. I just see calling him privileged undermines his efforts considering the amount he’s already contributed and continues to do so. On the other hand I could be reading too much into it.

​@@umalaurenbowman7276 Not everybody is able to come up the way my husband and I have either, but it wasn't our privilege that got us here. In fact, I'd say being discriminated against was part of our struggle. People say I'm privileged to own 40 acres, but I worked 2 jobs for 20 years to get here. My husband and I pooled our resources by communicating and making compromises, I studied and learned how to buy a fixer upper, pay extra on the principal, minimize all other bills, no cable, no subscriptions, no clothes, no restaurants, no vacations, even no trash service at one point. When we sold, we were homeless for 6 weeks waiting to close on our new property, which still needed heating, plumbing, and insulation before winter. Every last penny was used to purchase our new place. We had to get groceries on our credit cards. Our car was robbed and our shoes stolen. We were locked in our storage unit by employees who didn't like our pale skin color, my husband's bald head, and my dreadlocks. We've been at our property 9 months and still haven't paid off the credit card, and my shoes are barely existing, water and thorns come up through the holes in the bottom. There was not much privilege in my story, more oppression if you ask me. But sure, call it privileged when a white person gets something amazing that they've worked hard for.

Thx for engaging in the issues raised. I chose Bali as it suits my personal needs, while also enabling me to create something (the regen farm school) that I could never do in a more expensive country. That is because I reached a point where I wanted to enact my ideas not just spread them. By working at the level of farming, I am learning more clearly why the systems remain as they are... the economics is terrible for anything at the base of a supply chain, which makes internalizing environmental and social costs impossible for most. Therefore the farm and school cant charge our participants, and we rely on donations to offer what we do and to develop further with accommodation for our paid student interns. chuffed.org/project/bekandze

@@jembendell Sounds good

My friend lived to 105. Farming to the end.

you're so close to working it out.. no, the pretty women that all the men cater too, will *finally* care we do what they want including destroying the planet

Wrong, the cold is a lot more dangerous to humans, you have been put into a fear state.

​@@ChrisInToonexactly.

The wealthy already have their bunkers and islands set up and stocked. They really don’t want more humans.

MCB was in my 2018 paper and is in my book

I totally agree, stop listening to all these "guru's" and get as independent as possibly. Prepare while we can. If everyone was living with independent power, water, food, transportation etc, and there was a collapse, it would bearly effect the independent. But the independent have to work together, for safety and security against the unprepared.

Why do these people keep telling the rest of us what they are doing and why…it doesn’t matter….the end is near and it’s later than you think

The stupid and selfish will ruin the world for the intelligent and altruistic. There are too many of them brainwashed and indoctrinated by the false construct of ultra consumerism perpetuated by corporate greed.

Late Stage Capitalism is inevitable collapse

I have no control of that. This video is not monetised by me but by youtube for the producers of the featured music.

Watch on odysee?

There are many ways to respond as there are people in the world. Don't copy me. I always said the opposite. That's why I founded www.deepadaptation.net for people to discuss with each other and find their own best way to live with this awareness. Good luck!

The plants can't grow without the animal manure hon. They also can't grow without co2

@@lynnelee4390 plants CAN grow without animal manure. Nature has proven this... and for Co2 - the devil's on the dosage.

@@lynnelee4390 Why do you believe that? I live on a veganic permaculture farm in a rural part of a third world country. We use living mulch (Butón de Oro / Mexican Sunflower) that is much more powerful than chicken manure, and we also complete the nutrient cycles with humanure. We can grow plants without exploiting other animals. Do you think animal abuse is wrong? 925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion unnaturally bred animals on farms are given enough human edible food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota

@@lynnelee4390 algae is our only hope to sequester all the extra co2. Oil and coal are from algae. Algae can sequester 100 gigatons of co2 per year - if only algae is focused on.

The reality is that 76% is inarable land, meaning we don't do anything to it but we get a return. People, and I did when vegan, have to stop thinking it's just calories that need replacing. It is not. Like the gelatine that holds together your toilet paper or the activated carbon to filter your water or sugar, it's more than calories that need replacing. 83 minus 76 is 6%, so that would mean 6% of the land gives three times the calories, or another crop in its place would have to, arable land and what it can grow is 24% of the land, that we douse in pesticides and synthetic fertilisers and have literally destroyed the soil and turned it into dirt, so that it flies away in the wind, while we suck dry aquifers. "Agriculture" is the leading cause because humans that live there use it to live, if using the FAO : The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognizes the critical role of livestock in supporting livelihoods, especially for poor communities. Here are some key points: Livestock and Livelihoods: Livestock production is essential for around 60 percent of rural households in developing countries. These households include smallholder farmers, agro-pastoralists, and pastoralists. Approximately 1.7 billion poor people depend on livestock for their livelihoods. 70 percent of those employed in the livestock sector are women. In summary, FAO works to enhance animal production systems sustainably, improve the quality of animal products, and uplift the livelihoods of poor communities while meeting consumer needs. Livestock contributes significantly to global food security and economic well-being, benefiting millions of people worldwide. So in affect it helps low income families to have animals, for you to say that "animal agiculture" is the main cause probably means all of our consumption in the modern world and this is categorically false, take soy for example. 92 percent of human usable soy is used for humans, 7% whole bean for animals and 1% of the oil, they take 99% of the waste, like all seed oils and other crops have waste. Humans take 6% of whole bean but 87% is processed into oil, which is in everything, either that or palm oil. Animals get fed more crop waste than what is grown for them and if in USA it's around one third of the corn crop. One crop, so no, it does not matter if animals are on land we can't do anything too, having other animals on it, wild ones isn't really going to change much environmentally. The one third of one crop and 8% of soy is not going to replace all the calories, or the rest of the inedible parts either that we use all of. The irony now is the more crop based people there are, the cheaper it is to raise animals, caged ones too.

Although the imperialist uniparty drives the world towards the cliff, whatever the person "in charge", no? In my book I use sociological data to conclude we should expect more stupid politics as an aspect and accelerator of collapse.

I don't see a managed transition, but a collapse, and I don't recommend we make predictions about how much that will take away, where and when, from modern life. But yes, precisely, I don't have hopes for modern urban living. I go into great detail in the book.

​@@jembendell I don't see a large-scale managed transition either. I'm concerned about the small-scale, neighborhood sized here and now and the near future, for those millions living in cities. How can we make life less agonizing, even more beautiful and meaningful, for so many of us in the meantime? How can we encourage and strengthen the community bonds between people, who are the only real means of support through the tough times ahead? How can we make the best and most sustainable use of existing infrastructure?