Finally, he challenged academics and policymakers to shift to a 'Deep Adaptation Agenda' of responses to climate change. With dark humor, he noted that his conclusions make his academic field of specialization, sustainability, unviable. The tone of the paper was personal, and has been described as autoethnographic. He shared his experience of coming to terms emotionally and existentially with the idea of collapse in his lifetime. In his view, these rendered published predictions of climate damage overly conservative.īendell then proposed the types of denial that prevent people from facing the likelihood of collapse. He challenged the practice of business as usual in government, industry, and academia, announcing “the end of the idea that we can either solve or cope with climate change.” He reviewed scientific research on climate change, stating that he emphasized recent unpublished results and factors such as tipping points. In the 2018 paper, Bendell asserted that “near term social collapse” (which he later called societal collapse ) due to climate change is inevitable. The paper has been translated into a number of languages. The original paper was addressed to the corporate and academic sustainability community but found a large general readership, being downloaded more than 600,000 times as of November 2019.
He has since offered that as opinion, rather than fact, in a second version of the paper in 2020. In the paper, Bendell stated that near term social collapse due to climate disruption was inevitable. Bendell then chose to self-publish through the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria. The paper was submitted to the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, but reviewers requested major revisions. The concept of Deep Adaptation was introduced in the 2018 paper " Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy" by University of Cumbria sustainability leadership professor Jem Bendell. The agenda includes values of nonviolence, compassion, curiosity and respect, with a framework for constructive action. The word “deep” indicates that strong measures are required to adapt to an unraveling of western industrial lifestyles.
These disruptions would likely or inevitably cause uneven societal collapse in the next few decades. It presumes that extreme weather events and other effects of climate change will increasingly disrupt food, water, shelter, power, and social and governmental systems.
Paper by Jem Bendell about climate breakdown and the need for 'deep adaptation.'ĭeep Adaptation is a concept, agenda, and international social movement.
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