How we live fully without pushing away difficult emotions triggered by awareness of our climate tragedy is going to have as many answers as there are people coming to this awareness. But I hope the beauty in the film affirms once again what it is we love and stand for. You'll see it's a long way from a protest, political meeting or boardroom. The paper offers a new meta-framing of the implications for research, organisational practice, personal development and public policy, called the Deep Adaptation Agenda. I made it where I was living at the time, in Indonesia, and drew on the beauty of nature and culture that still exists on this wonderful planet. If that is where you are at, I hope it helps. Many people were and are, like me, traumatised by this realisation of a future societal collapse. I published a paper on my conclusion, inviting deep adaptation to our climate tragedy, and was swamped with the response. My estimation is that our complex consumer industrial societies won't cope with the new pace of weather disruption to our agriculture.

I studied climate science again for the first time in 25 years and discovered how bad it is. View the video from the entire day here.A message from the filmmaker, Jem Bendell: Adapt or die: Jem Bendells radical vision to survive the climate crisis. Participating teachers included Joanna Macy, Belvie Rooks, Jennifer Berezan, Venerable Anālayo, James Baraz, Thanissara, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and others.

This teaching is excerpted from No Time to Lose: A Dharma Response to Climate Change, a daylong event hosted in September 2019 by Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center. “My friends, please stay mystified as to your actual identity.” Resources Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos Authors: Jem Bendell Rupert Read University of East Anglia Discover the worlds research 2.3+ billion citations Public Full-text. “We are going to build a redemptive, beautiful, non-violent culture, a life sustaining society, and we know by now we have the resources to do that, with our planet and with our minds and with our hands.”

“How incredible, how lucky I am that I should be given this life, when so much depends on us.” Reconciliation – With whom do you want to make peace while you can? (16:56).Restoration – What are the values and behaviors that you used to have in your culture or another culture that you’d like to adopt? (14:37).Relinquishment – What values and behaviors are you ready to let go of? (12:13).Resilience – What values and behaviors do you want to keep in our culture and your daily life? (8:33).Working with Paradox and Uncertainty in the Anthropocene.The Power of Joyful and Loving Engagement.

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