Deep Adaptation - Jem Bendell & Toni Spencer

Subscribe to http://FacingFuture.TV - Professor Jem Bendell is author of Deep Adaptation, which summarizes climate science and trends to suggest that humanity faces inevitable societal collapse, probably within 10 years. Please watch the video all the way through as the mental, emotional and psychological support comes after the 'bad news' is presented and discussed. The presentation, to 300 people in Bristol, UK, was his first recorded lecture on the Deep Adaptation. Using a more informal format than a University lecture, the Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria, invites the audience to explore forms of action additional to cutting and drawing down carbon from the atmosphere - actions associated with personal and collective preparedness for coming disruption. Accompanying him was Toni Spencer, a facilitator who works on Deep Adaptation and Transition. After Jem's talk, Toni led the audience in a reflective process to explore feelings and ideas emerging. She also offered some poems and reflections during the process. Members of the Climate Psychology Alliance spoke from the floor, explaining their new initiative to provide therapeutic support to people working on or affected by this agenda. The event was organized by the local Constituency Labour Party and Momentum group, but made open to anyone with any political interest or none. To engage on this topic see http://www.deepadaptation.info We thank Emilio Mula for filming and editing, and Seeding Our Future (futurescanning.org) for support to make it possible. Professor Bendell is co-leading a retreat on Deep Adaptation in the UK in September 2019. For details... https://bit.ly/2N3YfQq You would do well to consider the prospects of Deep Adaptation, and what its implications are for you, your family, your work and your life. For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library