*[Enwl-eng] Is A Politics of Collapse Emerging?
enwl
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Mon May 15 23:17:05 MSK 2023
Друзья,
это сообщество активно думает о том, как пройти сквозь кризис.
Читайте, думайте о себе, обсуждайте.
О том, что кризис уже здесь напоминают сегодня: Министры финансов G7
предупредили о повышенной неопределенности в мировой экономике
https://www.interfax.ru/world/901453
Успехов,
Свет
“Это пророческая книга”, - заметил Сатиш Кумар, основатель колледжа
Шумахера, о моей новой книге "Объединяясь: свободолюбивый ответ на крах".
Соучредитель Extinction Rebellion Клэр Фаррелл сказала: “Если вы хотите
спасти часть мира, но ненавидите, когда вам указывают, что делать, эта книга
для вас”. Чарльз Эйзенштейн отметил, что книга является частью “движения за
исцеление”, более широкого, чем экологическое. Я был очень воодушевлен,
получив их предварительную поддержку, поскольку электронная книга заняла 1-е
место в списке бестселлеров Amazon в категории ‘Политическая свобода’. Вы
можете прочитать больше о книге в моем блоге и уже заказать ее здесь, если
вы используете Kindle.
с 10 июля книга будет доступна бесплатно в формате epub от Института
Шумахера. Эта дата знаменует 50-летие публикации книги Э. Ф. Шумахера
"Маленькое прекрасно". Я пришел к выводу, что этот классический текст
предлагает последовательный анализ, который экологи все чаще игнорировали по
мере того, как становились все более скомпрометированными и своекорыстными.В
этой редакционной статье я уделяю особое внимание своей книге отчасти
потому, что она стала результатом двухлетних напряженных исследований. Но
также и потому, что я хочу пригласить вас подумать о том, что может включать
в себя политика и повестка дня тех, кто предвидит коллапс, если вы еще этого
не сделали. Вы можете ознакомиться с кратким изложением идей, прослушав
бесплатную аудиозапись введения и главы 1 об экономическом коллапсе.
В этом выпуске DA Quarterly мы приводим резюме недавних публикаций и мнений,
которые указывают на то, что потенциальная политика коллапса становится
очевидной. Это указывает на то, что область готовности к коллапсу выходит за
рамки психологической поддержки, местной "подготовки" и самоанализа. Кроме
того, мы выделяем случаи цензуры со стороны Bigtech, что предполагает
аполитичную позицию в отношении коллапса - ожидание означало бы признание
того, что он будет маргинализирован в общественном дискурсе. Мы добавляем
новости с форума DA, который перешел на полностью добровольческую
инициативу. Поскольку он был разработан таким образом, чтобы не зависеть от
финансирования и выполнять свою функцию объединения людей вокруг темы
готовности к коллапсу и реагирования на него, я надеюсь, что он и впредь
будет служить местом встречи для людей, которые осознают это и могли бы
воспользоваться поддержкой в изучении того, что делать дальше.
От: Jem Bendell <jem.bendell at cumbria.ac.uk>
Date: пн, 15 мая 2023 г. в 11:12
Subject: Is A Politics of Collapse Emerging?
To: Sviatoslav <svetfrog at gmail.com>
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Issue 13, May 2023
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IN THIS ISSUE
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News from Deep Adaptation Forum
EDITORIAL
“This is a prophetic book,” remarked Satish
Kumar, founder of Schumacher College, about my new book: Breaking Together:
a freedom-loving response to collapse. Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion,
Clare Farrell, said “if you want to save some of the world, but hate being
told what to do, this book is for you.” Charles Eisenstein reflected that
the book is part of a “healing movement” wider than the ecological. I was
very encouraged to receive their advance endorsements, as the ebook went in
at #1 on the Amazon bestseller list in the ‘political freedom’ category. You
can read more about the book on my blog, and already order it here, if you
use Kindle.
Although the hardback is not cheap (being
aimed at organisations), the paperback is out on June 18th, and from July
10th the book will be free as an epub from the Schumacher Institute. That
date marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Small is Beautiful by
E. F. Schumacher. I have come to regard that classic text as offering a
coherent analysis that the environmental profession increasingly ignored as
it became more compromised and self-serving. That day I will participate in
an online Q&A with participants from the Deep Adaptation Leadership group on
LinkedIn. If interested in joining us, sign up here.
I am focusing on my book in this editorial
partly because it results from a hard two years of research. But also
because I want to invite you to consider what a policy and politics agenda
for collapse-anticipators could involve, if you haven’t done so already. You
can get a summary of the ideas via a free audio of the introduction and of
Chapter 1 on economic collapse.
I recently spoke with GQ Magazine about the
writing of this book. The research process was not fun for any of us
involved, because we were analysing so many interconnecting problems and
discovering the limitations of so many proposed solutions. However, the
second half of the book offers a positive way of making sense of this
situation and celebrates the people who are responding creatively and
courageously. I hope it will help more people move into a ‘post-doom’
mindset and experiment with different ways of living as a result. Some early
reviews of the book are indicating that kind of impact.
I will launch the paperback and audiobook of
Breaking Together in the UK in Glastonbury Town Hall on June 18th (with
speakers including Rachel Donald and Gail Bradbrook), and will also discuss
it at a movie premiere in Berlin on August 1st.
If you are interested in joining others
wanting to integrate these ideas into your own leadership, then I recommend
the only academic course I am teaching this year, online in November with my
University. To be updated on when the various book formats are out, and on
my presentations over the next 12 months (in Italy, Belgium, and Indonesia),
subscribe to my blog.
In this edition of the DA Quarterly, we
provide summaries of recent publications and opinions that indicate a
potential politics of collapse is becoming visible. That indicate the field
of collapse-readiness is developing beyond psychological support, local
'prepping', and self-analysis. In addition, we highlight instances of
censorship by Bigtech, which suggests an apolitical stance on
collapse-anticipation would mean accepting it will be marginalised in public
discourse. We append news from the DA Forum, which has switched to an
entirely volunteer-led initiative. As it was designed to not become
dependent on funding to serve its function of connecting people around the
theme of collapse-readiness and response, I hope it will continue to provide
a meeting place for people who come to this awareness and could use support
in exploring what to do next.
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Extinction Rebellion's The Big One. By Jessica
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As a window on the world of collapse, this
newsletter reflects on ways to find meaning, and to support the work and
healing of others.
OPINIONS
The debate continues on just how bad future
changes in climate will be, whatever is done to curb emissions and draw down
carbon. Sometimes an independent scholar can analyse the latest science in a
field that's not their own to provide an insightful overview. That can
happen when they seek salience amongst the noise from the volume of
publications, as well as understanding wider contexts that might be ignored
by specialists. This piece by Matt Colborn on catastrophic scenarios from
climate science demonstrates the power of such external analysis.
Sometimes someone takes the time to analyse
why mainstream climatologists working with the IPCC failed to get the
message out for decades, but now support fairytale technologies in order to
make it seem like modern civilisation can tame future climate change. One
such analysis came from Jackson Damian. The backlash from experts at top
universities was predictable, including their ‘shoot the messenger’
approach. At some point, serious climate activists will drop their deference
to scientists who seek to defend the status of the establishment that they
are wedded to.
Whenever someone allows the latest analysis of
our environmental predicament to impact them, an existential crisis is never
far away. For many people, reflecting on deeper questions of the nature and
meaning of life are part of the process of trying to find a way out of
despair. The organisation Media Lens published a blog on their co-editor’s
journey with despair. Unfortunately, the learnings and outputs from the
people engaged in Deep Adaptation were not cited - a sign of the continuing
need for people to discover each other when grappling with their
anticipation or experience of societal breakdown.
The need to meet and process emotions around
the environmental predicament remains, even if various vehicles to meet that
need come and go. An article in The Guardian, Singing to trees and
Indigenous wisdom: the UK festival aiming to prevent ecological collapse,
highlighted how there are increasing numbers of cultural gatherings in the
UK that show similarities with Deep Adaptation methodologies, such as
authentic relating and ecopsychology.
In her blog Hero Addiction, Anja Byg,
volunteer editor with the Deep Adaptation Forum, explores ‘the dark side of
our hero fixation’ and her own feelings of despair in the face of humanity’s
‘logic of overcoming and subduing.’ How can we move away from hero and
anti-hero stereotypes and expectations, and instead value stories of
community and collaboration, acceptance of failings and helplessness, and
wisdom in the face of something ‘too strong, too vast’? Anja doesn’t have
the answers (she’s no hero, she writes). And that’s okay.
The tactics of people involved in the last few
years of climate activism have been evolving in myriad ways. This was well
articulated by former finance lead of Extinction Rebellion, Andrew Medhurst,
in an article for Resilience, Life after Extinction (Rebellion): From
raising the alarm to starting a farm. He explained that although XR has
stuck almost entirely to an emissions-cutting agenda, its founding members
are choosing new paths that incorporate their anticipation of societal
collapse. It leads some to talk of the potential for revolution as systems
break down, others to focus on community resilience, others to concentrate
on international solidarity, and others to do all of those and more.
For years many climate activists have avoided
being too specific about their politics. That has meant they have served as
external pressure that venture capitalists then benefit from as they drive
their ecomodern agendas through governments around the world. The backlash
to the resultant policies is growing. For instance, the Post Carbon
Institute has increased the volume on its criticism of the corporate hijack
of environmentalism in How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental
Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex.
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. entering the US
presidential race, some additional attention is being paid to a traditional
environmentalist theme that has otherwise waned in recent years. It is the
critique of the alignment, or even merger, of the interests of large
corporations and institutions of government. RFK Jr. has been known for not
only legally challenging corporate abuse of power regarding environmental
concerns, but also for health concerns, which meant he was cast by corporate
media as a radical and illegitimate voice during the pandemic. In May, the
NGO he founded published a call for a return to a freedom-loving
environmentalism, that recognises current corporatism is accelerating
societal collapse.
With that critique in mind, the big elephant
in the room we need to talk about is capitalism. Or perhaps
‘necrocapitalism.’ The term was coined by Scholars' Warning signatory
Professor Bobby Banerjee, in 2008, when describing contemporary forms of
organisational accumulation that involve dispossession and subjugation. Now,
a contemporary blogger on societal collapse, George Tsakraklides, mentions
the term when exploring why humanity has been unable to avert collapse. A
vibrant voice on collapse, George rightly points to the heart of the
problem: capitalism. Sometimes he equates that with the whole of humanity,
with statements like "Humanity has, rather unconsciously, decided to engage
in a futile war with the entire planet." However, when not downplaying any
distinction between peoples, cultures, and classes, Tsakraklides is a lively
contributor to discussions in this field.
One hub for content on the potential political
agenda of the collapse-aware is Planet Critical. Hosted by Rachel Donald,
guests cover topics such as the role of economic systems in societal
collapse, why appropriation of the resources of the Global South means it
can’t go green, why transitioning to renewables is not possible without
economic transformation, and the importance of community-based approaches to
the predicament we face.
Unfortunately, the dark arts of public
persuasion and neo-censorship are beginning to be applied against those of
us who conclude that the future is going to be further disrupted by
environmental change. It is now known that organisations working with,
and/or funded by, the US government, are involved in editing what the world
sees through platforms like YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Instagram, that
are owned by US bigtech companies. This is done within the context of
‘national security’, yet extends into areas of public discourse that have
nothing to do with actual threats to national security. This explains why
Facebook censored the aforementioned GQ article on climate doomism. Worse,
there are now efforts by parts of this ‘censorship industrial complex’ to
encourage media outlets to connect realistic outlooks on the future as
leading to extremism and violence. Take, for instance, Generation Doomer:
How Nihilism on Social Media is Creating a New Generation of Extremists.
Linked to this approach is the argument that the youth mental health crisis
in the US stems from the views of people with realistic expectations of the
future, rather than the gaslighting and lack of compassionate and creative
engagement around that situation. As elites increasingly seek to silence
discussion of reality and blame, or even criminalize those who point to that
reality, it will no longer be possible to remain apolitical if
collapse-aware. Sharing content like this newsletter by emailing
individuals, rather than relying on social media posts being seen, is one
response.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
An academic article explored what anticipation
of collapse might mean for imagination and therefore action. Deep Adaptation
is about positive action without attachment to outcome. However, the way it
might shape new motivating visions for the future has been little explored
before now.
“The world as we have created it,” said
Albert Einstein, “is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.” What, if anything, can change our thinking? Jane
Gray Morrison and Michael Charles Tobias wrote Terminal Philosophy Syndrome:
A Wake-Up Call for All | Psychology Today to explore “whether there might
not be some alternative to humanity jumping off that cliff.” Their
conclusion? “Recognition that our species’ capacity to venerate nature in
all her quirks and ellipses, stochastic incalculables and steadfast
patterns, her graces and unimagined diversity, is our only chance of at
least partial survival into an unknown future.” Read this sobering, wise,
and insightful book and see if you agree.
A free online book, ‘A Little Book of
Insurgent Planning’, from the group Just Collapse, provides examples of what
action we can take collectively at the local level. It’s about communities
organising, planning, and taking action for their basic needs as systems
crumble, and includes examples of what the authors describe as "insurgent
planning" in cultures and communities around the world.
The first edition (2017) of Meg Wheatley’s
bestseller Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality | Claiming Leadership |
Restoring Sanity is being republished, with 80 percent new material.
Available now for delivery June 6th, and pre-order for a 38% pre-publication
discount until May 26th.
In his review of Breaking Together, Andrew
Medhurst (formerly the finance lead in XR) writes that "For a long time I
had assumed, like the author, collapse was a specific future event, but
Bendell explains how the study of ancient and recent history indicates
“collapse of a society is typically a process, not an event”. The evidence
for the “uneven ending” of some of the most basic needs of people in
industrial consumer societies (e.g., sustenance, shelter, health and
security) is provided in the first half of the book. Each of the first six
chapters considers a specific aspect of collapse – economic, the biosphere,
food and societal (culture), with the seventh chapter summarising how they
combine to show the “inevitable breakdown of modern societies.””
COURSES AND EVENTS
֎ On June 18th, in the UK, Gail Bradbrook and
Rachel Donald will join Jem Bendell when he launches his book Breaking
Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse.
֎ On July 2nd, the ‘MEER Talk’ series on
climate change finally addresses both politics and societal collapse, with
Jem Bendell their guest.
֎ Would you like to join others in discussing
the main messages of Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to
collapse? Join author Jem Bendell and others online in celebrating the
release of the book as a free epub on July 10th. Sign up here.
֎ On August 1st, in Berlin, there will be a
special showing of the film We Are All Going To Die, with a pre-film talk by
Jem Bendell. Find out more here.
֎ This September is the start of a unique
four-month initiative to support and empower women activist-academics who
recognize the urgent need for radical change within higher education in
response to imminent societal collapse. Facilitated by Katie Carr, who
helped to create the Deep Adaptation Forum.
֎ ‘Leadership during societal disruption and
breakdown’ is an online course at Masters Level, from the University of
Cumbria. The deadline to apply is in September. Find out more.
֎ Are you a scholar? Have you signed the
Scholars’ Warning on societal disruption and collapse? The fourth cohort of
scholars will start their leadership and communications online course this
November. It is free, due to donations from previous participants, and this
one is suited to participants in the Americas, East Asia, and Australia. You
can watch testimonials, find out more, or apply to join (if a signatory to
the Scholars’ Warning).
For more events on Deep Adaptation, view the
events calendar of the Deep Adaptation Forum.
Complete our form to submit details of your
own online event or course for consideration in our next DA Quarterly.
Original artwork by Gudim.
ARTS AND CULTURE
Events like COP-27 signal the collective
failure to imagine the next steps. Let's inspire with new ways of seeing,
open windows to innovation, and reach through to people’s hearts.
You heard it here first. The film We're all
going to die will premiere this summer in Berlin, and become a smash hit
later this year. It brings both the soul-searching and doomer humour of
people in the collapse-aware space to the big screen for the first time.
Film director Scott Z. Burns wrote The
Contagion, which many of us watched again during the early phase of the
Covid-19 pandemic. He was also a producer of An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006
Academy Award-winning documentary that followed former Vice President Al
Gore’s campaign to raise awareness about climate change. Burns' latest
output is Extrapolations, a series starring Meryl Streep and Edward Norton
about what life on Earth might be like if/when carbon emissions continue and
more floods and fires ensue (it's on Apple TV+).
British installation artist Mike Nelson “works
with the material evidence of capitalism.” A review of his immersive art
collection, Extinction Beckons, at London’s Hayward Gallery, suggests that
viewing it is not the crowd-pleasing experience you might reasonably expect.
Jem wrapped up his 30+ series of Deep
Adaptation Q&As with special guest Satish Kumar. A former Jain monk and
peace activist, Satish founded the Schumacher Institute in the UK. He talked
about the importance of unconditional love at this time of societal
disruption and breakdown.
A 16-year-old, collapse-aware documentary
“What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire” was recently highlighted on
the very active Deep Adaptation Facebook group. “A middle class white guy
comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population
Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.” One viewer’s comment:
“this way of living is done and we must finally accept that we must let go
of it.”
The worst thing by far
would send you mad after a while.
You’re in a race with it, worrying at its
riddles
bundled up in skins and darkness,
its promise that nods like a dandelion clock
rattled by a deadpan wind.
This engine that draws you behind it like a
plough,
pausing at random to let you hear the moon;
what does she sound like,
the wide open mouth of night?
Kill the engine. Listen.
Kill the engine:
put your good ear
to the rough ground
scattered with other
people’s talk.
Dig down beneath
the smother
of your thoughts
of their thoughts.
Open up to the tiny
shudders of roots.
Hold the seed
you have saved
in the mouth
of your rage.
Place it in the soil.
Let your tears fall.
Grow something
beautiful
and useful
By Janet Lees
NEWS FROM DEEP ADAPTATION FORUM
The Deep Adaptation Forum is a community which
began soon after the publication of Jem Bendell’s ground-breaking paper. It
brings together all sorts of people, helping them embody and enable loving
responses to our predicament, to help reduce suffering while building
supportive communities to face the realities of eco-social collapse. The
following text is provided to the Quarterly by the Forum.
Towards leaner and more decentralised
governance
The DA Forum is currently engaged in a bold
organisational experiment. While for the past four years this network and
community has relied largely on a core team of paid part-time freelancers to
coordinate most of its activities, this model has begun to show its limits
in view of an evolving funding landscape. As a result, an ambitious
community dialogue process has been initiated to fundamentally rework the
Forum’s governance structures, on the basis of helpful proposals formulated
democratically by various participants. Committed groups of volunteers have
been meeting weekly since early February to examine these proposals, and
consider ways to transform the Forum into a more decentralised and fully
volunteer-led network, largely based on the principles of Sociocracy. This
rich process of collective learning and visioning is set to usher in a whole
new phase in the life of our community, which we hope will help make it all
the more relevant in view of an increasingly troubling social, economic,
political, and ecological context.
News from Earth Listening
Every week, online spaces are convened in the
DA Forum for the practice of Earth Listening - a guided collective
meditation centred around the purpose of listening to the Earth, and
exploring one’s connection with the wider natural ecosystems of the planet.
This April, two new groups had their first meeting in very different
contexts: one is based in Lebanon, and the other for German speakers. A new
website has also been created at earthlistening.net where basic information
on the practice and active groups can be found. The Friday weekly Earth
Listening Circle as well as the bi-weekly Australian Earth Listening Circle
are well-established and meet regularly. Information on meeting times and
how to connect can be found through the Forum’s events calendar.
A Deep Adaptation 101 course is in the works
Thanks to the efforts of a dozen volunteers,
an introductory course on Deep Adaptation will soon be made available on the
DA Forum’s e-learning platform. This course was originally designed,
developed, and facilitated in German by two volunteers from Netzwerk Tiefe
Anpassung, one of the Forum’s affiliated groups. It was then adapted by one
of its co-creators into English, with the active collaboration of several
other volunteers, who also gave it a “test-drive.” Three of them are poised
to step up as its facilitators. They foresee that this course may become an
important source of inspiration and a useful entry point into the Forum for
anyone new to Deep Adaptation.
Helping to catalyse support efforts in the
Ukraine
Since the end of 2022, several Forum
volunteers have been collaborating with Ukraine-based support efforts. One
such initiative is the Green Road of Ecovillages project, which aims at
rehousing internal refugees within ecovillages in Ukraine and beyond, in
partnership with the Global Ecovillage Network. Another one provides
practical, legal, and emotional support to women who have been sexually
assaulted during the Ukrainian conflict, for instance, by supplying HIV
testing equipment or documenting their stories in view of war crimes
investigations. A third effort has the objective of organising unarmed
civilian protection to protect the Zaporizhzhya nuclear reactor, which has
been repeatedly in the crossfire of conflict. More information on these
initiatives and how to contribute can be found on the DA Forum’s Community
Space. Read also this testimony by one of the volunteers most deeply
involved in these activities, on how doing so has been a source of rich
personal and social learning, and on the importance of the relationships
cultivated within the Forum.
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