Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse

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External applications are just as crucial, especially when it comes to fostering real change in our relationships with one another and with nature. Despite being here today at an event on collapse, the person you are looking at is not actually that weird. Professor Jem Bendell skillfully and seamlessly integrates personal reflection and hard data from virtually every domain to provide a unique vision of catagenesis – the creative renewal of post collapse society. Incidentally the Carbon Conversations booklet was published in 2009 when atmospheric carbon concentration was 380ppm, Brown,Paul (2006) Global warning;the last chance for change (sic) was already dated and this afternoon atmospheric carbon is 420ppm. Dr Stella Nyambura Mbau, Loabowa Kenya“This book is part of a healing movement that extends beyond what we normally think of as ecological.

Bendell caused no small stir in 2018 when he published a paper claiming that the collapse of modern civilisation was “inevitable”, primarily as a consequence of climate change. That matters because I think we have entered an era of the collapsing of the culture and systems that denied that divinity. This is a great place for folks who might wish to make their own connections to, and exploration of, the body of work. That has meant I could develop a collapse-ready organic permaculture farm school – something that would require millions in finance to do in the West.

On the one hand, there are efforts to take our freedoms and money under the cover of climate actions. Speaking about the ecological wisdom of her Native American culture, Lyla June told me that “we weren’t just born this cool. Yes – history is devoid of many of the real initiators of solutions, because of their invisibility due to their lack of whiteness, straightness or maleness; which means the world is deprived of new solutions until they’re adopted by white males.

Unfortunately some people have been misled by the capabilities of ‘large language models’ to think that AI might even be ‘conscious.And it teaches us it is hard to explain precisely why because collapse is always the result of multiple interacting factors. The response from adults can be to gaslight them, by claiming their attitude or mental health is the problem, rather than the state of the world. All the above are forms of increasing control of us and our present societal set up serves only the globalists and not the common people. He has been a stalwart of the Deep Adaptation movement and online communities, serving as a volunteer moderator with the DA Facebook Group and also editing a few issues of the DA Review. Grassroots Planning: This action is also ecolibertarian, as it involves local solutions and community independence over global influences.