Jem Bendell (collapse “poster kid”, academic) wrote the paper that launched the “Deep Adaptation” movement and spawned Extinction Rebellion. That was in 2018. The paper argued that societal collapse was unavoidable and would happen in our lifetimes, probably before the end of the 2030s, and it went very, very viral.

The University of Cumbria Emeritus Professor and co-founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse has now released a new book, Breaking Together: A Freedom-Loving Response to Collapse,  which confirms the worst, but also provides, as per the subtitle, a path for a despairing soul to live beautifully beyond the doom.

This conversation is confronting and Jem’s honesty is brutal. He warns of food collapse in the next three years and that the economy could go (and our savings rendered worthless) any moment. But he also explains how we can use this reckoning to live a courageous, kind, noble life. For anyone on the collapse awareness journey, this is a crucial listen.

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You might want to follow my book serialisation on Substack where we are doing the collapse awareness journey together, one step at a time.

You can catch Jem in Sydney at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on 24-25 August, more details here.

Jem offers a couple of online courses a year, on the topic of Leading Through Collapse.

Here is the post he wrote about Talking to Relatives About Collapse we mentioned

Want to know more, you can engage with Jem via the following:

Find Emotional Support

Visit the Deep Adaptation Forum

Watch some of Jem’s talks

Read his key ideas on collapse

Read his book Breaking Together

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