Non-governmental organisations have constantly colluded with governments and corporations to conceal the scale of the catastrophe, and to push solutions that will not solve it. That’s true of everyone I talk to too.īendell chooses to think that social collapse is inevitable, catastrophe probable and extinction possible. That’s my guess too.Ī second truth: scientists have, for many reasons, been under constant pressure to downplay the dangers and extent of climate change, and not to scare the mob.
We don’t know and can’t know how bad, or how quickly this will happen.Įveryone that Bendell speaks with bases their predictions on their political beliefs. Things are going to get very bad within the lifetime of some of us now living. Here I want to develop one thing that Bendell talks about: social collapse.īut first, for those who have not read his research paper, there are three key truths Bendell tells.įirstly, climate change has been moving much faster than scientists predicted. A huge number of people - 350,000 and counting - have downloaded Jem Bendell’s paper Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy.
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