OM DENNE EPISODE
In 2018 Professor Jem Bendell published an academic paper that went viral; pretty weird for a piece of scholarly writing. The topic? Societal collapse caused by runaway climate change. The timeline? Soon. Deep Adaptation presented a frank, delusion-free framework for facing the end of the world as we know it, sparked a movement, and copped a lot of flack.
I wanted to chat with Jem not so much about the grim facts but about how, “as that collapse guy”*, he is filling his life with meaning at the eleventh hour. And it turns out, that includes becoming a farmer, writing folk songs and considering having kids.
*Jem happily identifies as a doomster
🎙️ In this convo
Experiencing climate change first hand as a farmer in Bali
How to act on knowledge about collapse and climate?
Making the leap towards your values (with the help of a global pandemic)
Why the wellness community is full of shit
Farming fails
Picking up music at 48 and writing comedy rock
Faulty beliefs we have about our creative gifts
Living fully at the eleventh hour
Letting go of status and security
Why it’s all ok when everything’s not ok
Kirtan and ecospirituality practices
Jem’s evolving views about how collapse will unfold
Bringing kids into this world, yay or nay?
The Deep Adaptation framework
Becoming NURTURANT
How to help others through the grief
Jem’s simple pleasures
Oracle cards for cynics
🧙♀️LINKY POOS
[paper] Deep Adaptation ~ Jem Bendell
[book] Breaking Together ~ Jem Bendell
Jem’s collapse-aware oracle cards
Songbird credit: Australia Outback Birds by EduFigueres License: Attribution 4.0
