“With what and with whom shall we make peace as we awaken to our common mortality,” is a question of reconciliation. “What could we bring back to help us in these difficult times,” is a question of restoration. “What could we let go of so as not to make matters worse,” is a question of relinquishment. “What do we most value that we want to keep and how,” is a question of resilience. Which is what we call the four Rs of deep adaptation. It’s a framework for exploring ideas for how to attempt that. It’s an ethos of being engaged, open-hearted and open-minded about how to be and how to respond. The ethos is essentially a commitment to working together to do what’s helpful during the disruption and collapse of societies because of the direct and indirect impacts of environmental breakdown including climate change. Hence all the writing and teaching, and the new book.ĭeep Adaptation has become an umbrella term for an ethos, a framework, a community and a movement. In that time I’ve been driven by the idea that getting smarter about the problems we face will help to reduce them. I’ve lived much of my life outside the UK, worked around the world, with a lot of the time in the Global South. I am a middle-aged British man who has been an environment and development scholar, activist and consultant for over a quarter of a century. In this interview for Facing Future TV, Jem explains the concept of Deep Adaptation, how he developed the idea, what it means in practice, what he says to critics, and what his new book on the topic is about.įF: Who are you and how would you describe yourself? It helped to launch a worldwide movement of people seeking to reduce harm in the face of societal disruption and collapse. In 2018, a climate paper by Jem Bendell went viral, being downloaded over a million times. Interview with Professor Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos, by Facing Future TV.
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