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Jem Bendell

Michael Dowd's recording of Jem Bendell's much discussed and vitally important paper, Deep Adaptation, and other important essays and posts written by Professor Bendell since the summer of 2018.

Jem Bendell - Deep Adaptation

TEXT: https://jembendell.com/2021/05/13/after-angry-acceptance-fifteen-unhelpful-responses-to-anticipating-collapse/

Jem Bendell - After Angry Acceptance - Fifteen Unhelpful Responses To Anticipating Collapse

Introduction to Deep Adaptation book - Jem Bendell and Rupert Read

TEXT: https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/it-really-doesnt-matter
Darren's "Expressive Egg" website: https://expressiveegg.org/

Darren Allen - It Really Doesn't Matter

Apr-May 2023 GQ (UK) article on Jem Bendell, "The doom seer of climate chaos"
TEXT: (1) https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jem-bendell-deep-adaptation-climate-change-interview-2023 
(2) https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-04-18/i-was-wrong-to-conclude-collapse-is-inevitable/ 
(3)https://www.facebook.com/jem.bendell/posts/pfbid02chYDvK6LS7hHJkLXG6tXbKMPYdWKxyTShzCptCcXMLcMGjf1zZvEB7MaeRHDa5tql?comment_id=160424359985846&notif_id=1681600882951054&notif_t=comment_mention&ref=notif

Jem Bendell - The Doom Seer Of Climate Chaos - GQ April - May 2023

Economic Collapse - Chpt 1 of "Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell (published May 9th 2023).

In Chapter 1 "Economic Collapse - a time of limits and contradictions" Professor Bendell provides a summary of the economic data and theory that supports the view that the collapse of industrial consumer societies has already begun. The chapter is narrated by Matthew Slater. The Chapter appears after a detailed introduction. To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Good Works (GW) believes that critical thought and open debate are some of the most important contributions to ensuring we are able to create a fairer, balanced and harmonious world for all living creatures. The views expressed in this book are those of the author and do not represent the views of Good Works or The Schumacher Institute.

Full audiobook:
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C8PHMP35/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-354993&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_354993_rh_us

Economic Collapse - Chpt 1 of Breaking Together

Introduction - recognising and responding to collapse, in "Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell (published May 9th 2023).

In this Introduction Professor Bendell outlines the full argument of the book. The chapter is narrated by Matthew Slater. 

Full audio book:
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C8PHMP35/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-354993&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_354993_rh_us

To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Good Works (GW) believes that critical thought and open debate are some of the most important contributions to ensuring we are able to create a fairer, balanced and harmonious world for all living creatures. The views expressed in this book are those of the author and do not represent the views of Good Works or The Schumacher Institute.

Breaking Together

Introduction

Introduction to Breaking Together by Jem Bendell

Food Collapse is Chapter 6 in "Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell (published May 9th 2023 by Good Works).

To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Follow this soundcloud account to receive notification as audios of chapters are released. 

To download a copy of this chapter:
https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6927/

Good Works (GW) believes that critical thought and open debate are some of the most important contributions to ensuring we are able to create a fairer, balanced and harmonious world for all living creatures. The views expressed in this book are those of the author and do not represent the views of Good Works or The Schumacher Institute.

Food collapse - Chapter 6 of Breaking Together

"Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell is published May 9th 2023. In Chapter 1 "Economic Collapse - a time of limits and contradictions" Professor Bendell provides a summary of the economic data and theory that supports the view that the collapse of industrial consumer societies has already begun. The chapter is narrated by Matthew Slater. To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Economic Collapse - Ch 1 of Breaking Together, by Jem Bendell

TEXT: https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H4n6g-fCD7qAiSVVd4mCLCAJvZAQxv55/view

Sam Hall - The Busy Workers Handbook To The Apocalypse

This chapter explains how energy systems have begun to degrade and the impossibility of maintaining current trajectories of energy consumption. It is a reality which undermines the 'ecomodern' story of maintaining consumer lifestyles through new technologies. Instead richer societies need to 'power down' - voluntarily or otherwise. 

Full audio book:
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Breaking-Together-Audiobook/B0C8PTD9ZL
(or search Breaking Together in audible/itunes/etc in your country)

To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Good Works (GW) believes that critical thought and open debate are some of the most important contributions to ensuring we are able to create a fairer, balanced and harmonious world for all living creatures. The views expressed in this book are those of the author and do not represent the views of Good Works or The Schumacher Institute.

Energy Collapse and Problems with Net Zero - Chpt 3 of Breaking Together

This is me, Jem, reading a chunk of my book, Breaking Together, to my Dad in the wonderful Rowcroft Hospice, in Torquay, UK.

It's from Chapter 2. You can order the book from the links on www.jembendell.com - including the full audiobook that is narrated by my friend Matthew Slater.

Rowcroft Hospice
https://rowcrofthospice.org.uk/get-involved/donate/make-a-donation/

Bits of Breaking Together #2 - When Growth Became God

Former Occupy Wall Street activist Karen Perry explains her list of 15 benefits of collapse acceptance, and the thinking behind them, with Professor Jem Bendell. 

These are explained in a 2 part essay. The first: 
https://jembendell.com/2023/09/21/the-benefits-of-collapse-acceptance-part-1/

The Benefits of Collapse Acceptance with Karen Perry - Jem Bendell's DA conversation #1

Sir John Pasha's vitally important and insightful analysis of the common patterns of the rise and fall of empires.

Glubb Pasha - The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival

TEXT: https://www.amazon.com/Immoderate-Greatness-Why-Civilizations-Fail/dp/1479243140
Truly a "must read"! 
ALSO SEE: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-ophuls-apologies-to-the-grandchildren
AND: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-ophuls-1
AND: http://thegreatstory.org/sustainability-audios.html#ophuls

Immoderate Greatness

William Ophuls - BOOK: Immoderate Greatness

TEXT: https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf ALSO SEE: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-03-17/deep-adaptation-post-sustainability-and-the-possibility-of-societal-collapse/ AS WELL AS: http://www.scientistswarning.org/deep-adaptation-a-map-for-navigating-climate-tragedy/
My recording of Jem Bendell's "must read" or "must listen to" paper, DEEP ADAPTATION: A MAP FOR NAVIGATING CLIMATE TRAGEDY.

Deep Adaptation, Jem Bendell (Dowd narration) - A Map For Navigating Climate Tragedy

TEXT: http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

Jem Bendell - Deep Adaptation 2020 - A Map For Navigating Climate Tragedy

AUTHORS: Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Gauthier Chapelle, Daniel Rodary / TEXT: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/deep-adaptation-opens-necessary-conversation-about-breakdown-civilisation/

Deep Adaptation Opens Up A Necessary Conversation About The Breakdown Of Civilisation

TEXT: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/criticise-deep-adaptation-start-here/

Jem Bendell - To Criticise Deep Adaptation, Start Here

Mooge

JMG - Stange Days Dawning - 3:3:21

Michael Dowd died October 2023. This soundcloud list is a substantial part of his legacy. Here he shares, via his voice, the major books, blogs, and other texts that instructed his own worldview shift into recognizing the multiple causes of the civilizational collapse underway and wisdom for moving into a postdoom perspective of clarity, calm, and compassionate love-in-action. As a Postdoom pastor, Michael aimed to support others in deeply adapting to abrupt climate change and societal and ecological breakdowns. Websites: https://www.postdoom.com and http://thegreatstory.org