#deep-adaptation — Public Fediverse posts

#SkylarWilson: Our dominant #human presence is now #endangering the life of the #Earth. We're now being asked to #letgo of much of what we've grown attached to in the modern era, which we will experience as so many little #deaths. #ClimateGrief #DeepAdaptation
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth bit.ly/4hkaVA6

Watch Prof Jem Bendell reveal why saving forests and oceans is the frontline of climate action. Deep insights, urgent solutions, and a call for global collaboration—don’t miss this essential video for our future! #ClimateAction #DeepAdaptation https://youtu.be/PW9qYpm2xaE

Compassion is radical realism.
When another’s suffering spills over, our task is not to punish but to help.

#lifeboatacademy #livingthequestions #deepadaptation #soilandsoul #thichnhathanh

Compassion is radical realism.
When another’s suffering spills over, our task is not to punish but to help.

#lifeboatacademy #livingthequestions #deepadaptation #soilandsoul #thichnhathanh

The Story That Should Not Have Been:

This was not how the human story was meant to end..
Not with melting glaciers and rising walls.
Not with billionaires escaping upward while the oceans crept in.
Not with the silence of forests drowned out by the hum of devices..

We began with bare feet and open hands,
curious, uncertain, staring into the dark with fire in our eyes..
We learned to grow, gather, and grieve.
We built homes, songs, and systems.
We touched the moon.

And then....we touched nothing.
Nothing real.
Just numbers on screens and dopamine loops,
algorithms tighter than the bonds between neighbours.

We called it progress.
We made gods of GDP and efficiency.
We grew the economy like it was a crop,
and burned the soil beneath it.

We built machines that outpaced our wisdom.
Tools without elders.
Profit without pause.
Comfort without community.

The Earth groaned,
and we handed out loyalty cards.
The sky cracked,
and we installed air-conditioning.
We did not adapt... we monetised the crisis.

Democracy?
We sold that, too.
Votes drowned in money.
Truth fragmented by code.
Fear rebranded as policy.
The strongmen did not seize power.
We gave it to them...for stability, for screens, for noise.

Inequality?
Designed, not accidental.
A system where five men own more than half the world.
While billions hustle for rent,
they own the future, the data, the air.

Let us not pretend everyone chose this.
Some resisted.
Some warned.
Many were silenced,
while the architects of collapse called it freedom
and moved their assets offshore.

And now...
the insects are gone.
The water is plastic.
The children are anxious,
and the gods are corporations.

So we ask..
Is this how it ends?
The great arc of human becoming..
from toolmakers to terraformers to a footnote in a geology textbook?

It did not have to be this way.
The warnings were clear.
The crossroads came again and again,
and still, we pressed the accelerator.

But even now..
if there is a fragment of clarity left,
if there is one ember unextinguished....
let it burn for this:

Not a return to what was,
but a return to what matters.
Not endless expansion,
but rooted kinship.
Not empire,
but ecosystem.
Not more,
but enough.

Let it be said that we stood at the edge...
saw clearly,
named the failure,
and turned.
Not to be saved..
but to begin again.

#CollapseAware
#ClimateCrisis
#SystemChange
#DeepAdaptation
#ClimateJustice
#Anthropocene
#EcoGrief
#PostCapitalism

The Story That Should Not Have Been:

This was not how the human story was meant to end..
Not with melting glaciers and rising walls.
Not with billionaires escaping upward while the oceans crept in.
Not with the silence of forests drowned out by the hum of devices..

We began with bare feet and open hands,
curious, uncertain, staring into the dark with fire in our eyes..
We learned to grow, gather, and grieve.
We built homes, songs, and systems.
We touched the moon.

And then....we touched nothing.
Nothing real.
Just numbers on screens and dopamine loops,
algorithms tighter than the bonds between neighbours.

We called it progress.
We made gods of GDP and efficiency.
We grew the economy like it was a crop,
and burned the soil beneath it.

We built machines that outpaced our wisdom.
Tools without elders.
Profit without pause.
Comfort without community.

The Earth groaned,
and we handed out loyalty cards.
The sky cracked,
and we installed air-conditioning.
We did not adapt... we monetised the crisis.

Democracy?
We sold that, too.
Votes drowned in money.
Truth fragmented by code.
Fear rebranded as policy.
The strongmen did not seize power.
We gave it to them...for stability, for screens, for noise.

Inequality?
Designed, not accidental.
A system where five men own more than half the world.
While billions hustle for rent,
they own the future, the data, the air.

Let us not pretend everyone chose this.
Some resisted.
Some warned.
Many were silenced,
while the architects of collapse called it freedom
and moved their assets offshore.

And now...
the insects are gone.
The water is plastic.
The children are anxious,
and the gods are corporations.

So we ask..
Is this how it ends?
The great arc of human becoming..
from toolmakers to terraformers to a footnote in a geology textbook?

It did not have to be this way.
The warnings were clear.
The crossroads came again and again,
and still, we pressed the accelerator.

But even now..
if there is a fragment of clarity left,
if there is one ember unextinguished....
let it burn for this:

Not a return to what was,
but a return to what matters.
Not endless expansion,
but rooted kinship.
Not empire,
but ecosystem.
Not more,
but enough.

Let it be said that we stood at the edge...
saw clearly,
named the failure,
and turned.
Not to be saved..
but to begin again.

#CollapseAware
#ClimateCrisis
#SystemChange
#DeepAdaptation
#ClimateJustice
#Anthropocene
#EcoGrief
#PostCapitalism

Sharing & Caring...

https://teamup.com/ksgwdbu1oxnhu8npdi/events/1867903624

#deepadaptation #climatechange #collapse #society #community #resilience #wisdom

@breadandcircuses please can you retoot this from @GreenRupertRead he's not got many followers on here so boosts appreciated #ClimateCrisis #ClimateMajority #DeepAdaptation #EmergencyResilience
#ClimateAction #permaculture https://rupertread.net/writings/2025/why-its-time-for-a-new-climate-movement-strategic-adaptation-for-emergency-resilience/

@breadandcircuses please can you retoot this from @GreenRupertRead he's not got many followers on here so boosts appreciated #ClimateCrisis #ClimateMajority #DeepAdaptation #EmergencyResilience
#ClimateAction #permaculture https://rupertread.net/writings/2025/why-its-time-for-a-new-climate-movement-strategic-adaptation-for-emergency-resilience/

Well, it’s almost 7:30 AM, I’m nauseated, so I’ve been doing some light reading.

And it appears that there are more people who also said “fuck it” to systems in play going on in the world right now and are also rolling with the punches while trying to build better ways of doing things. One of those people is English professor Jem Bendell. I’m not sure yet if I agree with everything he’s doing/believes in (but then again, do you ever?) because I’m still exploring and contemplating all that he has to say, but he did publish a fascinating piece on his site back in February 2024 about deep adaptation to climate crisis, massive social change, and collapse, and how sometimes saying fuck it and making a huge life change in light of all of that is the least risky option.

Given everything that’s going on politically here in the States, I think it’s well worth the read and to do some thinking about, even if you don’t agree with most or all of what he says.

Cool shit.

-Allēna

#chronicIllness #ClimateChange #CripplePunk #DeepAdaptation #HopePunk #LightReading #USPol

Well, it’s almost 7:30 AM, I’m nauseated, so I’ve been doing some light reading.

And it appears that there are more people who also said “fuck it” to systems in play going on in the world right now and are also rolling with the punches while trying to build better ways of doing things. One of those people is English professor Jem Bendell. I’m not sure yet if I agree with everything he’s doing/believes in (but then again, do you ever?) because I’m still exploring and contemplating all that he has to say, but he did publish a fascinating piece on his site back in February 2024 about deep adaptation to climate crisis, massive social change, and collapse, and how sometimes saying fuck it and making a huge life change in light of all of that is the least risky option.

Given everything that’s going on politically here in the States, I think it’s well worth the read and to do some thinking about, even if you don’t agree with most or all of what he says.

Cool shit.

-Allēna

#chronicIllness #ClimateChange #CripplePunk #DeepAdaptation #HopePunk #LightReading #USPol

Guten Abend an Jede*n, herzliche Einladung einen Abend vor dem Valentinstag zusammen zu sein und darüber ins Gespräch zu kommen, was LIEBE sein kann und ausmacht. #Hope #ActOnClimate @erzbistumberlin #DeepAdaptation #Peace
@christians4future @christianrebellion #VoteForClimate @parents4future @Berlin4Future @Aiti @Edith_Wit @c4f_hh @klimastreik

@ManyRoads

#solarpunk #anarchy #deepadaptation
#permaculture

@benroyce @violetmadder @KathyLK @bitsnpieces @the5thColumnist @mloxton

@ManyRoads

#solarpunk #anarchy #deepadaptation
#permaculture

@benroyce @violetmadder @KathyLK @bitsnpieces @the5thColumnist @mloxton

Liebe Neujahrsmitgestaltende in 2025, alles erdenklich Gute und von Herzen seiende in Einheit und Respekt für ein Miteinander. #ActOnClimate
@DSBKonsistorium #Hope
@parents4future #DeepAdaptation
@religionpeace #ActOnPeace @Edith_Wit @christians4future @erzbistumberlin @teachers4fde @Berlin4Future @christianrebellion @c4f_hh

"The Scientific Pain of #ClimateChange by Jem Bendell: https://braveneweurope.com/jem-bendell-the-scientific-pain-of-climate-change-shifting-narratives-of-acceptance-and-avoidance-in-climatology #deepadaptation

"The Scientific Pain of #ClimateChange by Jem Bendell: https://braveneweurope.com/jem-bendell-the-scientific-pain-of-climate-change-shifting-narratives-of-acceptance-and-avoidance-in-climatology #deepadaptation

Gott erhöht die Niedrigen und hilft den Betrübten empor. (Hiob 5,11) Eine Welt, eine Mitwelt - lasst es wirken. #ActOnClimate #Hope
@DSBKonsistorium #DeepAdaptation #Humanity
@erzbistumberlin #OurotherMother #LeaveNoOneBehind
@parents4future @[email protected] @christians4future @Edith_Wit @c4f_hh @christianrebellion @fff @teachers4fde

Kleines Feedback unserer Klimaandacht in St. Nikolai, Oranienburg: Danke an eine wachsende Gemeinschaft, deren Worte und Erleben weitertragen wird. #Humanity #DeepAdaptation #BecauseWeLoveOurChildren #COP29 @christianrebellion @christians4future @Berlin4Future @parents4future @c4f_hh @Aiti @Edith_Wit

Kleines Feedback unserer Klimaandacht in St. Nikolai, Oranienburg: Danke an eine wachsende Gemeinschaft, deren Worte und Erleben weitertragen wird. #Humanity #DeepAdaptation #BecauseWeLoveOurChildren #COP29 @christianrebellion @christians4future @Berlin4Future @parents4future @c4f_hh @Aiti @Edith_Wit

Herzliche Einladung an Alle, uns in persona kennenzulernen. http://christians4future.de
#Humanity #DeepAdaptation #ActOnClimate
@christianrebellion @christians4future @c4f_hh @Berlin4Future @parents4future
@Berlin4F @Aiti @fff @erzbistumberlin @DSBKonsistorium

@cy @clintruin @breadandcircuses

Unfortunately the crisis is way too advanced for legislation to help in time. Research #DeepAdaptation and #ExtinctionRebellion for scale, scope.

You might find some comfort in Joanna Macy's work Active Hope as you get into this more.

@cy @clintruin @breadandcircuses

Unfortunately the crisis is way too advanced for legislation to help in time. Research #DeepAdaptation and #ExtinctionRebellion for scale, scope.

You might find some comfort in Joanna Macy's work Active Hope as you get into this more.

Coming soon to a country near you: The not-so-subtle shift to #Adaptation ?

Sometime back, Bloomberg Green posted an article about #Singapore spending $170 million to build climate defenses for a luxury store mall. Located in “a natural depression,” the area was once home to nutmeg plantations and pepper farms, and like all the Elm Streets in America where elm trees no longer reside, it is dystopicly named “Orchard Road.”

#DeepAdaptation #Reflections #GaianWay

https://gaianism.org/coming-soon-to-a-country-near-you-the-not-so-subtle-shift-to-adaptation/

@bridgetmck @breadandcircuses

#DeepAdaptation
Grief
Planting trees, shrubs, herbs, roots, vines for food, medicine, fiber, fuel, as many hours per day as can.
Tending the sick, wounded, broken.
Triage. Hospice.
Finding out what stuff we are made of.

@bridgetmck @breadandcircuses

#DeepAdaptation
Grief
Planting trees, shrubs, herbs, roots, vines for food, medicine, fiber, fuel, as many hours per day as can.
Tending the sick, wounded, broken.
Triage. Hospice.
Finding out what stuff we are made of.

@NorCalWineLady @breadandcircuses
Excellent question. So many possible answers, but we are going to have to fundamentally change how we do pretty much everything, world wide. Discuss actions locally everywhere. Lots of disagreements about what it will take, what is realistic. Some say #DeepAdaptation means we can't stop it now, only adapt to collapse. #Degrowth or #Post-Growth involving reductions and eliminations in whole industries. #Regeneration efforts to heal ecosystems. 1/?

@NorCalWineLady @breadandcircuses
Excellent question. So many possible answers, but we are going to have to fundamentally change how we do pretty much everything, world wide. Discuss actions locally everywhere. Lots of disagreements about what it will take, what is realistic. Some say #DeepAdaptation means we can't stop it now, only adapt to collapse. #Degrowth or #Post-Growth involving reductions and eliminations in whole industries. #Regeneration efforts to heal ecosystems. 1/?

@natureworks @breadandcircuses another excellent blog on #DeepAdaptation there too with his report on a conference in #Hungary https://felixderosen.substack.com/p/deep-adaptation-and-the-right-to

@natureworks @breadandcircuses another excellent blog on #DeepAdaptation there too with his report on a conference in #Hungary https://felixderosen.substack.com/p/deep-adaptation-and-the-right-to

Lots of the same choices that can help mitigate climate catastrophe and environmental injustice are also good for you in the short term, and good practice for climate adaptation:

- eating less (or no) meat
- riding a bicycle
- learning to maintain and mend your things
- reducing your exposure to advertising
- helping your neighbors
- tending plants
- telling me i'm cool and wise and handsome
- using free open source software
- joining a tool library

#degrowth #deepAdaptation #climate

Lots of the same choices that can help mitigate climate catastrophe and environmental injustice are also good for you in the short term, and good practice for climate adaptation:

- eating less (or no) meat
- riding a bicycle
- learning to maintain and mend your things
- reducing your exposure to advertising
- helping your neighbors
- tending plants
- telling me i'm cool and wise and handsome
- using free open source software
- joining a tool library

#degrowth #deepAdaptation #climate

Indeed, capitalism has wrought its own demise and given us the chance to undertake the construction of a new society on the ruins of the old one. It is we who have built the world that the capitalists and their servants have appropriated. It is we who will build the next one – from the remains of the previous one. As we are not afraid of ruins.

Indeed, capitalism has wrought its own demise and given us the chance to undertake the construction of a new society on the ruins of the old one. It is we who have built the world that the capitalists and their servants have appropriated. It is we who will build the next one – from the remains of the previous one. As we are not afraid of ruins.

Now that we are building a new community, and when we have less and less timespace left for doing stupid things, I invite you – Dear Reader – to talk about decent means leading to decent ends, which TePeWu is now setting for itself.
As we free ourselves from the pervasive state-capitalist culture and from the reactivity trap of the traditional anti-system approach, we need a new space of meaning for all our activities. And the rest – solvitur ambulando.

Now that we are building a new community, and when we have less and less timespace left for doing stupid things, I invite you – Dear Reader – to talk about decent means leading to decent ends, which TePeWu is now setting for itself.
As we free ourselves from the pervasive state-capitalist culture and from the reactivity trap of the traditional anti-system approach, we need a new space of meaning for all our activities. And the rest – solvitur ambulando.

...despair is not a luxury, it is more a laxative for purging our bullshit. There is a place beyond despair where we can begin again but, trying to avoid despair, people often don’t allow themselves to reach it.

Jem Bendell, Breaking Together

...despair is not a luxury, it is more a laxative for purging our bullshit. There is a place beyond despair where we can begin again but, trying to avoid despair, people often don’t allow themselves to reach it.

Jem Bendell, Breaking Together

The most important thing.

https://petroskowo.pl/display/810fc51c-1565-855d-a41a-b85831740420

The most important thing.

https://petroskowo.pl/display/810fc51c-1565-855d-a41a-b85831740420

@peterdutoit

To put this in its real context we have to say that 'our futures are fu(ked'.

Deep Adaptation is the only action we can take now.
DA is 100% free from obstruction by any person or authority, it is ours to do, if we choose to.

#deepadaptation

Breaking Together encourages us to think about collapse in ways that are profound, possibility-expanding and startlingly original. Bendell’s “post-doom” perspective has the potential to change individual lives, upend organisational strategies and give birth to whole new social movements.

Bendell advocates for an ideal of “ecofreedom”. This moves beyond obvious ideas, such as reconnecting with nature, to encompass supporting youth climate activism and decolonial, resource-preserving movements in the Global South.

The post-doom approach also calls for embracing a “positive disintegration” of self and values, to refocus one’s mind, and entire existence, on things that really matter.

Our current predicament largely stems from wrong ideas about the separation between people, as well as between people and the planet. These ideas have been used for centuries to justify exploitation and oppression. Our current predicament is the result of them and the power structures they have led to.

The DA Forum actively seeks to replace these mistaken narratives with more connected and loving responses, and with better ways of relating to people and the other-than-human world. We welcome all who come here seeking these peaceful and loving responses, and actively discourage community members from promoting non-loving or violent views.

#future #deepadaptation

Let's suppose that you had some disease that would kill you in a few short years. Would you prefer the doctor to tell you that, or would you rather not know until near the end?

If you're the kind of person who would rather know, then you should read this article. If you'd rather live as long as you could without knowing of your condition, then you definitely should not.

https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

@stevelord I'm new to the idea of #DeepAdaptation but had already come across #ActiveHope which I've found hugely helpful in the face of #ClimateCrisis and other things. The Active Hope process is 7 questions on hopes, fears and more but leads you to take action on something positive. Lots of useful info and free training resources here https://www.activehope.info/

Interview by Lucy Jones with Jem Bendell, originator of Deep Adaptation. Touches on an area which interests me: how it feels for us human beings to confront the realities of climate change, what we're able to hear, what we block out.

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jem-bendell-deep-adaptation-climate-change-interview-2023

#ClimateChange #feelings #DeepAdaptation