tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83097686911104755082024-03-12T20:15:03.017-07:00Initiative for Leadership and SustainabilityIFLAS - Initiative for Leadership and SustainabilityUniversity of Cumbriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11794434710696572377noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-30849500587737971922023-10-19T07:10:00.003-07:002023-10-29T11:01:43.719-07:00Is it time for climatologists to apologise to activists? An open letter from international scholars. <p>Seventy scholars from 16 countries have signed a public letter in support of climate activists who were undermined by senior climatologists, ahead of those activists facing persecution and prosecution. The rapidly changing climate demonstrates that the activists were closer to the truth than many of the scientists. Although it might be too late to preserve the freedom of many activists, the seventy scholars call for public apologies from senior climatologists. The text of the letter follows below, and the list of signatories below that. </p><p>Discussing the open letter, Professor Colin Butler, of Australia National University, explained that "peril lies in understating the risk to global civilisation from unabated climate change (and other aspects of limits to growth); I call on my colleagues to show leadership and courage." Climate scientist Dr Wolfgang Knorr of Lund University (Sweden) said: "what we need of both politicians and experts is nothing more than honesty - say you don't care about the climate crisis, or act in way that does justice to the vastness of the threat."</p><p>Focusing on the unfair treatment of climate activists, Professor in Science Education, Dr Caroline Smith, from the University of Tasmania (Australia) said: "Shooting the messengers is a disgraceful state of affairs. We send congratulations and strength to those courageous scientists who continue to speak out for all our futures." In the Netherlands, Dr Lummina Horlings, Professor of Socio-Spatial Planning (University of Groningen) said: "we should be grateful to activists such as Extinction Rebellion who play an active role to stop the subsidy of fossil fuels." French Agronomist Dr Etienne-Pascal Journet (CNRS) said: "While the climatic and ecological upheaval has never been so obvious, propaganda against the wise, courageous and peaceful activists is abounding, supported by various lobbies, think tanks, the government, and opportunistic political parties." Also from France, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Professor of Ecology (Natural History Museum, France) said: "Trying to warn humanity of the climate and biodiversity crisis should be 'haloed' not criminalised."</p><p>Reflecting how global heating threatens to disrupt everything in society, the open letter is signed by academics from many disciplines, not just climatology. It comes after the public statement issued by the co-founders of activist group Extinction Rebellion, Gail Bradbrook, Roger Hallam and Clare Farrell, about the unhelpful pressures on them from some climatologists over recent years and the need for more <a href="https://rebellion.global/blog/2023/10/19/reflections-5-years-on/" target="_blank">courageous truth telling</a> in a world with a rapidly changing climate. Emeritus Professor Jem Bendell with the University of Cumbria in the UK said: “It’s time that more scholars back the activists who are being proven right on the climate. It’s ridiculous that bravely accurate activists like XR's Gail, Roger and Clare now face prison, while their loudly inaccurate critics in the climatology profession face just another payday.”</p><p>If you want to help amplify this message, please search social media posts for those scientists who have publicly criticised activists like Extinction Rebellion, and politely ask them for their latest opinion, now that reality shows the activists were closer to the truth than they were. For instance, on this <a href="https://twitter.com/i/lists/1405027611718258690" target="_blank">Twitter list of scientists</a>, the following search terms will identify those who have previously criticised or condemned climate activists: alarmism, alarmist, catastrophist, doom, doomist, doomism. If you link to this letter, that may help them to see the strength of concern. </p><div><b>Climate Activists Deserve our Support</b></div><p>Around the world, peaceful environmental activists are being vilified by the media, prosecuted by the state and, in some countries, murdered with impunity. Worldwide, one environmental activist is being killed every other day [1], and people who seek to defend our planet are losing their freedoms to do so [2]. Sadly, a globalist-funded network of propaganda against such activists has distorted the media, social media and political responses [3]. That is despite the now rapidly changing climate proving that humanity owes climate activists our gratitude and leaders owe them an apology [4]. In this age of consequences, the appropriate response must be to gather environmental activists in dialogue with scientists and wider civil society, to explore why the activists often better assessed the risks from environmental change, why societies were so resistant to that truth, and how to enable better decision making in future. </p><p></p><p>As researchers who signed the initial ‘Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse’ three years ago [5], we have been aware of the limitations of institutionalised scientific research to provide insight into both the reality and risks in highly complex systems, such as the global environment. For instance, we knew that both the consensus and averaging requirements of the reporting from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) led to downplaying data and findings that were crucial to understanding the world’s climate [6]. The recent speed and impact of global heating demonstrates that those generalist scholars and citizen scientists associated with campaign groups like Extinction Rebellion, were better able to identify the risks to humanity, and were often better able to bring this to the attention of the public than employed climatologists.</p><p></p><p>Although hundreds of scientists have welcomed such activism [7], it is a tragedy that some senior climatologists criticised peaceful activists in recent years, inadvertently undermining their credibility with the public and encouraging draconian legislation and punishments [8]. We lament this misleading and counterproductive approach to science communication by some of our senior colleagues. Instead, we congratulate those scientists who have themselves become protestors, like members of Scientist Rebellion, and encourage others to join them [9].</p><p></p><p>It is neither conspiracy-minded nor disrespectful towards scientists to agree with the extensive scholarship showing us that research silos, hierarchies, and funding considerations lead to suboptimal conclusions on real world implications. There is an urgent need not to allow the same siloed and hierarchical approaches that hampered institutional climatology in the past to dominate its future in this new era of societal disruption [10]. Because there is a lot still to be done to reduce harm, despite the tragic circumstances facing us all. Life on Earth, including humanity, will not tolerate further institutionally-caused blind spots on catastrophic threats. Therefore, as signatories, we call for more efforts to bring well-researched activists together with generalist scholars and career scientists, to better understand the complex system that is the biosphere and climate.</p><p></p><p>To support that, not only do we invite new signatories for the Scholars’ Warning declaration, but also welcome public apologies from those scholars who used their status to undermine the sense of both hazard and urgency that the environmental activists were promoting over recent years. As activists are being persecuted and prosecuted right now, the time for such apologies is also right now. </p><p>[70 scientists from 16 countries signed, with their names listed below]. </p><p></p><p>--</p><p>1] The NGO Global Witness claims that, on average, somewhere in the world an environmental activist is killed every other day, with 177 known to have been murdered in 2022. <a href="https://geographical.co.uk/news/177-environmental-activists-killed-in-2022">https://geographical.co.uk/news/177-environmental-activists-killed-in-2022</a> </p><p>2] In the West, peaceful environmental activists are being criminalised and prosecuted like never before. Many face custodial sentences this autumn. Even peacefully reminding juries of the law is being criminalised in Britain. “There are a number of human rights that are currently not being respected by EU states,” said Michel Forst, the U.N. special rapporteur on environmental defenders. <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-governments-crackdown-climate-change-activists-action-last-generation-extinction-rebellion/">https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-governments-crackdown-climate-change-activists-action-last-generation-extinction-rebellion/</a> </p><p>3] Backed by some of the world's largest anti-environmental corporations, The Atlas Network of think tanks has successfully been promoting the demonisation of environmental activists.. <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters">https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters</a> </p><p>4] Ocean and air temperature anomalies and associated impacts are frightening. See: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66857354">World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days - BBC News</a></p><p>5] See <a href="http://www.scholarswarning.net">www.scholarswarning.net</a> </p><p>6] This has been known for many years, and actively ignored by many top scientists and those that wish to align with them. From 2017, see <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-07/what-lies-beneath/">What Lies Beneath? The Scientific Understatement of Climate Risks</a> and Chapter 1 of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54907654-deep-adaptation">Deep Adaptation</a> on bias and limits in climatology.</p><p>7] Unfortunately criticism of climate activists and their analysis of the situation has even been expressed publicly by some scientists who previously supported them. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/environment-protest-being-criminalised-around-world-say-experts">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/environment-protest-being-criminalised-around-world-say-experts</a> </p><p>8] On this problem we note the important statement from XR co-founders <a href="https://rebellion.global/blog/2023/10/19/reflections-5-years-on/">https://rebellion.global/blog/2023/10/19/reflections-5-years-on/</a></p><p>9] See <a href="https://scientistrebellion.org/">https://scientistrebellion.org/</a> </p><p>10] See the 2023 report from the Post Carbon Institute: <a href="https://www.postcarbon.org/publications/welcome-to-the-great-unraveling/">Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown</a>. </p><p><b>Signatories, in their personal capacity:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Wolfgang Knorr, Climate Scientist, Lund University, Sweden. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Colin Butler, Honorary Professor of Public Health, Australian
National University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Lummina Horlings, Professor
Socio-Spatial Planning, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Pascal Maugis, Climatologist, LSCE, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Carlos de Castro, Professor of Physics,
University of Valladolid, Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Wolfgang Nitschke, Senior Scientist, CNRS,
France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Jem Bendell, Emeritus Professor,
University of Cumbria, UK. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Professor of
Ecology, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Rupert Read, Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia & co-founder Climate Majority Project</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Michal Palasz, assistant researcher,
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Deena Metzger, Teacher/Writer, Daré, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. JP Sapinski, Assistant Professor of
Environmental Studies, Université de Moncton, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Els van Ooijen, Psychotherapist, Nepenthe
Consulting, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Supot Chunhachoti-ananta, Lecturer, Srinakharinwirot
University, Thailand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Tomáš J Oberding PhD, Teaching Faculty,
University of Phoenix, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Sandra Niessen, founding member, Research
Collective for Decolonizing Fashion, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Metje Postma, Lecturer, Leiden
University, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Netherlands<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Jörn Altmann, Professor, Seoul National
University, South Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Heather Sullivan-Catlin, Professor of
Sociology, State University of New York – Potsdam, USA/Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Martin Siefkes, Research Associate, University
of Technology Chemnitz, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Johannes Scheppach, Doctor, Charité
University Medicine Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Peter Choate, Professor Social Work, Mount
Royal University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Noel B. Salazar, Professor in Social
and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Philippe Ricordeau, public health
doctor, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Marshall Tuttle, Lecturer in Music,
Retired, Langston University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Ghislaine Bouvier, Assistant Professor,
Bordeaux University, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Richard Parncutt, personal, University
of Graz, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. László A. Rampasek, CEO, OurOffset
Nonprofit LLC, Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Haris Shekeris Researcher, SUCH
(Sustainable Change Research Network)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Etienne-Pascal Journet, Researcher in
Agronomy, CNRS, France.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Rebecca Johnson, Consultant Clinical
Psychologist, University Hospitals Birmingham, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Jeremy Jimenez, Assistant Professor of
Education, SUNY Cortland USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Sylvain Weill, Assistant professor, ENGEES,
Strasbourg, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Steven Salmony, Pittsboro, AWAREness
Campaign on The Human Population, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Stef Craps, Professor of English
Literature, Ghent University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Stephen Martin, Visiting Professor in
Learning for Sustainability, University of the West of England, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of
Sustainability Education, University of Plymouth, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Cédric Sueur, Professor, Université de
Strasbourg, France.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Jake Farr, Psychologist, Leading
Through Storms, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Dietmar Weinmann, Physicist, CNRS,
France.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Dalila Bovet, Ethologist, Université
Paris Nanterre, France.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Philippe Marquet, associate professor, univ.
Lille, France. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Aimee Maxwell, Psychologist, Deep
Adaptation Forum, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Irene Malvestio, postdoc, Universitat
de Barcelona, Spain. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Hedy Bryant, Facilitator and educator, HARK
Facilitation Services, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Andrew Mathewson, Biologist, University
of Washington, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Elspeth Crawford, retired lecturer, University
of Edinburgh, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Arthur Weaver, independent scientist. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Ruth Irwin, Professor of Education, RMIT
University, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Martin Weinel, Research Associate, Cardiff
University, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Yin Paradies, Professor of Race
Relations, Deakin University, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Sean Kelly, Professor and author, California
Institute of Integral Studies, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Carr Everbach, Chair of Environmental
Studies; Engineering Professor, Swarthmore College, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Shawn Rosenheim, Professor of English, Williams
College, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Elizabeth Manchester, researcher, independent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Matt Colborn, Tutor, Alef Trust, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Chong Kee Tan, Founder, Labishire
Homestead Commons, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Andrew Boswell, Independent Scientist
& Consultant, Climate Emergency Planning and Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Adjunct
Tourism Management, University of South Australia, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Marco Massetti, Responsable técnico de
energía y sostenibilidad, FUNDACIÓ FICAT, Barcelona, Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Fred Rohrer, Lecturer, Pedagogical
University St.Gallen, Switzerland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Judith McNeill, Retired, University of
New England, Canada. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Joel Dubin, Professor, University of
Waterloo, Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Cathy Fitzgerald, Founder-Director, Haumea
Ecoversity, Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. David Phillips, Professor, University
of Southampton, UK. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Greg Lennon, Scientist, CarLen5050.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Caroline Smith, Adjunct in science
education, University of Tasmania, Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Shana Melnysyn, Research Grants manager,
University of California Humanities Research Institute, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5nKfcrzM99dMWT0goWuqZVs5XVwYjF6psOxgTY9-JdEh1Z_vuIQA5-i_FNorzZfP479OnVXfplNKUeu1OZF3sYz9atIDe-wJf3-sPZzL9bK1tc9gi6JBqM4lYyhPoG_YIySok-Ukff4pMrB4ecXLxXQ5BbPYLjkRfdpiOpW2k6DgstWR3fIOe7JihAs8/s2048/september2023.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="2048" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5nKfcrzM99dMWT0goWuqZVs5XVwYjF6psOxgTY9-JdEh1Z_vuIQA5-i_FNorzZfP479OnVXfplNKUeu1OZF3sYz9atIDe-wJf3-sPZzL9bK1tc9gi6JBqM4lYyhPoG_YIySok-Ukff4pMrB4ecXLxXQ5BbPYLjkRfdpiOpW2k6DgstWR3fIOe7JihAs8/s320/september2023.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-55615231145700578492023-07-26T05:28:00.004-07:002023-07-26T05:28:38.928-07:00Creativity Beyond Hope - Prof Bendell talk at Paradiso Amsterdam<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.scholarswarning.net/">Scholars’
Warning</a> co-founder Professor Jem Bendell gave a short presentation to
attendees of ‘Free Cultural Spaces’ in Paradiso Amsterdam, where he shared some
of the ideas behind his art project Kintsugi World, which accompanies his new
book ‘<a href="https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/">Breaking
Together</a>’. Below you can see the video of his talk, or read a rough
transcript of the first part.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jem’s explained there is evidence that the
creeping collapse of modern societies has already begun and that the modernist
and conformist beliefs in 'hope' can hold us back from our creative responses
to that predicament. His book is free to <a href="https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7235/">download</a> from the
University and there is an online interactive course in November on <a href="http://www.katie-carr.com/leadingthroughcollapse">‘leading through collapse’</a>. <o:p></o:p></span>The venue he spoke in hosted #Leftfield's first ever gig in 1996 (one of Jem's favourite bands).</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bhtpRKkma3Q" width="529" youtube-src-id="bhtpRKkma3Q"></iframe></div><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Check against delivery on 25<sup>th</sup>
July 2023. References to all statistics and claims are available in the
endnotes of ‘Breaking Together’ (published by Good Works, 2023).</span></i></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I’m happy to be joining you remotely in the
venue that saw the band Leftfield’s first ever gig back in 1996. It’s a
reminder, if we needed one, of the importance of free cultural spaces to
creativity. And it’s another reminder of why we need a great reclamation of our
power from the corporations, banks and remote state institutions. A great
reclamation that we can all take part in, as normal life crumbles around us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I’d like to take this short time together
to invite you to consider three things. First, that a process of the collapse
of industrial consumer societies has already begun. Second, instead of
believing in the delusion of a managed transition to a sustainable consumer way
of life, many people have a different motivation for engaging for the good of
us all. We don’t need wishful thinking to act positively today. In that sense,
we don’t actually need hope to be creative, but, instead, a faith in ourselves
and in life itself. Third, I see that the creative arts can help more of us
recognise that reality and discover new aims in life. That’s why I am really
pleased to contribute to your event today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">My new book, called Breaking Together,
explains how a process of the creeping collapse of modern societies is already
underway. Modern conveniences look like they are still functioning, so it’s
normal to be sceptical. But the data indicates the general situation. For
instance, the Human Development Index is a basic indicator. It has been
declining each year since 2019 in 80% of countries, in all regions of the
world. Some of that data is collected 2 years before release. So it's a decline
that began pre-pandemic. Previously it had been rising, always, in richer
countries since 1990. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Data on our quality of life shows a global
plateauing since 2016 and that 90% of countries have a declining quality of
life. In the rich OECD countries this fall has been consistent since 2016. And
some of that data was also collected a few years prior. So that suggests a
persistent decline starting in 2015 or earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In the book, I connect these cracks on the
surface of modern societies with the crumbling foundations in our economic,
energy, environmental, and food systems. Climate change is an accelerator of
all these fractures, as well as being a problem in itself. Although specific
societies have been disrupted terribly for centuries both by natural disasters
and political violence, the evidence I present in the book ‘Breaking Together’
supports a different view. Simply, we have reached a point where most modern
societies, while continuing to function on the surface, are already in the
early stages of their collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In the book I explain how we have not been
told about this process of collapse, as experts, politicians and the media hold
the microphone, and they are all incentivised to believe a myth of perpetual
progress. I also provide the evidence that the reason we no longer see content
about this breakdown going viral, is that the bigtech executives own the mixing
board that is social media and are curating what we see and don’t see. We now
know they do that in league with national security agencies of the US and
perhaps other countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When people hear the bad news about society
and the environment, some react by thinking that perhaps it’s not helpful to
focus so much on the bad news. That means they aren’t facing the information,
and instead switching to the topic of how we relate to that information. Which
is when we hear the story that hope is essential. What is meant by the word
‘hope’ and what psychology says about the topic are not often considered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Psychological research finds that whether
people act pro-socially or not has very little to do with their perception of
the future. Research finds that even catastrophic imaginaries can be more
motivating than not. Instead, being attached to consequentialist ethics is the
Achilles heel of activism and pro-social action. That is the idea that we do
something only because we know it will have a positive impact or we think it is
likely. I say it is the Achilles heel, because it can lead to people giving up
when they sense they can’t achieve their goals, or even turning towards violent
extremism and support for authoritarianism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The teachings of Buddhism are relevant
here. They regard hope as a thought pattern that takes us away from meeting
reality as we find it. The Buddha commented there are three kinds of people in
the world: “The hopeful, the hopeless, and the one who has done away with hope.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A member of the Spirit Rock Teachers
Council, Oren Jay Sofer explains that hoping can, I quote, “direct our longing
for happiness in an unskillful way. It places our well-being on an uncertain,
imagined future beyond our control, thereby feeding craving and fixation. When
the wished-for outcome isn’t realized, we are crushed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Let’s remember that we choose neither the
circumstances of our life, nor the results of our actions. What we can choose
is how we relate to each other, and how we respond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When doing that, we can tune into our
intuitive sense that there is something worthwhile about being alive and keep
living from our hearts, no matter what happens. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There is some similarity here in the more
mystical understandings of Christian teachings. The invitation for believers to
have hope, as often summarized in the statement “faith, hope and charity,” does
not need to suggest that a pain free world will come to exist on Earth. Rather,
it can be an invitation to expect that the ultimate rightness of existence will
be experienced by each of us in the end, whether that is in this life or after
death. That kind of hope is closer to a faith or trust in the universe,
whatever may occur in future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is also important we ask what it is that
people are hoping for. Is it for our way of life to continue? Despite that
relying on the exploitation of the world’s resources? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As Leftfield sang back in 1996: “how many
visions must they burn, until we learn?” It’s time for a wholescale rejection
of what I call in my book Imperial Modernity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Because a collapsing of industrial consumer
societies and the ideologies they uphold will provide opportunities for
significant change which might reduce some forms of suffering in some parts of
the world. Given the cumulative failure of myriad forms of past social change
strategies to deliver a peaceful, equitable and sustainable world, the cracking
of old systems could be regarded as a painful opportunity as well as a crisis.
That is a darker hope, but it is also a practical one. My view is that we will
be collapsing into communities, and the thing to play for is what we will find
in community when it becomes all we have. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In Chapter 12 of my book, I profile a range
of people who have allowed their acceptance of future or unfolding societal
collapse to transform them. Some have become activists, some have become
permaculture farmers, some have become spiritual teachers, some have become
community leaders, some have become innovators of local exchange and local
currency systems. Seeing what they do, inspires me with a broader hope that
these disruptive times will bring more of us back to fuller attention to life
itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In the book, I call this an ‘evotopia’
where more of us are witnessing and being with reality in all its dimensions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So I am talking about a massive shift in
our assumptions about life. How might that be helped? Art can help us see our
situation and stories in new ways. It can involve a warping or mixing of old
descriptions of reality. It is that intention and impact that makes something
artistic, rather than the tools used in the art. That is why I was happy to
work with a digital artist to create the cover of my book. It’s part of a
Kintsugi World art project which I will show you in a minute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span lang="EN-GB">[Professor Bendell then went on to
describe the reflection invited in the art on the cover of the book, made by
himself and Darinka Montico, and showed the other images in the collection. You
can view them in the video of the presentation. More information on the event
is at <a href="https://fcsamsterdam.nl/">https://fcsamsterdam.nl/</a>].</span></i> </p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-8692578934774440972023-06-11T06:41:00.002-07:002023-06-21T14:26:10.676-07:00Breaking Together – a freedom-loving response to collapse<p><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">“<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Breaking Together – a freedom-loving response to collapse</span>”</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">is</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> published by Good Works. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1JLL45V?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420" style="box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">It is out in hardback, paperback, e-book</a>, <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">and <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C8PHMP35/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-354993&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_354993_rh_us" target="_blank">audiobook</a>. The paperback is directly available from the <a href="https://schumacherinstitute.org.uk/product/jem-bendell-book/" target="_blank">publisher </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://schumacherinstitute.org.uk/product/jem-bendell-book/" target="_blank">in the UK</a>. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">From the back cover:</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">“This is a prophetic book.”</em> Satish Kumar, founder, Schumacher College</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;">“<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">This book shows that instead of imposing elitist schemes and scams, regenerating nature and culture together is the only way forward.</em>” Dr Stella Nyambura Mbau, Loabowa Kenya</p><span id="more-3051" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Breaking Together</em>. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other and nature to such an extent it broke the foundations of our societies. So what can we do? This book describes people allowing the full pain of our predicament to liberate them into living more courageously and creatively. They demonstrate we can be breaking together, not apart, in this era of collapse. The author argues that reclaiming our freedoms is essential to soften the fall and regenerate the natural world. Escaping the efforts of panicking elites, we can advance an ecolibertarian agenda for both politics and practical action in a broken world.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;">“<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A signpost for people made politically homeless by the craziness of the last few years.”</em> Aaron Vandiver, author, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Under a Poacher’s Moon. </em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;">“<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">A new compass for navigating collapse</em>.” Pablo Servigne and Raphael Stevens, authors, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Another End of the World is Possible</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">“If you want to save some of the world but hate being told what to do, this book is for you.”</em> Clare Farrell, co-founder, Extinction Rebellion </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;">You can listen to the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jem-bendell" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">introduction for free here</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Contents<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></span>Introduction<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />1 Economic collapse<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />2 Monetary collapse<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />3 Energy collapse<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />4 Biosphere collapse<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />5 Climate collapse<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />6 Food collapse<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />7 Societal collapse<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />8 Freedom to know<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />9 Freedom from progress<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />10 Freedom from banking<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />11 Freedom in nature<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />12 Freedom to collapse and grow<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />13 Freedom from fake green globalists<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Conclusion</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;">It may seem the conclusions of the book are quite bold and contestable. So, to get a sense of the amount of research that has gone into the book, you can download a <a href="https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6927/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">pre-released chapter</a> on food system breakdown. Dr Katja Hujo from the UN endorsed that by explaining that my “<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">paper (and forthcoming book) is a wake-up call that our global food systems are approaching global breakdown due to a number of interlinked hard trends, from biophysical limits of food production and climate change to growing demand and the destructive implications of our profit-oriented capitalist system. The application of interdisciplinary integrative analysis and the emphasis on economic, social, technological and ecological dimensions of the challenge ahead helps to grapple with the complexity of the issue and to avoid simplistic solutions. It is an analysis that motivates the reader to act at multiple fronts and critically engage with a topic that has a huge bearing on the future of humanity.”</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", Libre, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.75em; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtbpISzUAPe6cnRepsB117KuEf1ZbbCnchs8ag1o6dM9nXJYXyT4aRcfRUQ2gRJby_SwyfzYM98DK8a_mUmDR8C4ZXZ7uM0BQ8y60UeU810Jr2FlwhLMLeTH6oBKw1zdc_t3HXq3mOHrR34JwR3oYpOkTI_TkGP-Cque_XcUoXIdqO_6lwxs6WVv5Tmw/s2560/breakingtogether%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtbpISzUAPe6cnRepsB117KuEf1ZbbCnchs8ag1o6dM9nXJYXyT4aRcfRUQ2gRJby_SwyfzYM98DK8a_mUmDR8C4ZXZ7uM0BQ8y60UeU810Jr2FlwhLMLeTH6oBKw1zdc_t3HXq3mOHrR34JwR3oYpOkTI_TkGP-Cque_XcUoXIdqO_6lwxs6WVv5Tmw/s320/breakingtogether%20cover.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></em><p></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-51535016403582433612023-02-28T06:30:00.001-08:002023-02-28T06:30:36.266-08:00Six hard trends that drive food system breakdown – globally <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">An IFLAS Occasional paper analyses the
trends driving the breakdown of the global food system. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Endorsing the paper, Dr Katja Hujo from the
UN Research Institute for Social Development </span><span lang="EN-GB">(and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">lead author of their Flagship Report “</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cdn.unrisd.org/assets/library/reports/2022/full-report-crises-of-inequality-2022.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1677678659600000&usg=AOvVaw0aK6OjPpi3Z3NCMULVRWhZ" href="https://cdn.unrisd.org/assets/library/reports/2022/full-report-crises-of-inequality-2022.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">Crises of Inequality: Shifting Power for a New Eco-Social Contract</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">”) </span>notes:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“Jem Bendell’s paper (and forthcoming
book) is a wake-up call that our global food systems are approaching global
breakdown due to a number of interlinked hard trends, from biophysical limits
of food production and climate change to growing demand and the destructive
implications of our profit-oriented capitalist system. The application of
interdisciplinary integrative analysis and the emphasis on economic, social,
technological and ecological dimensions of the challenge ahead helps to grapple
with the complexity of the issue and to avoid simplistic solutions. It is an
analysis that motivates the reader to act at multiple fronts and critically
engage with a topic that has a huge bearing on the future of humanity.”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Contributing Lead Author for the UN
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, Scott Williams, notes:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“We are conditioned to fear
disorientation and seek safety in certainty and solutions regardless of the
information available to us. Breaking that protective screen, this paper adds
to the weight of analysis that the collapse of food systems and societies more
broadly is inevitable. But how we are in relationship with these changes is not
fixed even if, as this paper argues, we are stuck. Perhaps what this paper is
calling for is the spaciousness to ask new questions, to challenge habits and
myths, that may then shift perceptions. Consequently, we could be in
relationship differently with the inevitability of collapse, and sense the
possibilities that are perceivable with renewed care, compassion and generosity
to ourselves and to all life.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Co-founder, Extinction Rebellion, Clare
Farrell, notes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“The fragility of our systems is
underexplored and we need to pay attention to warnings from integrative
analyses like this paper. And then act like never before, with fierce
resistance on behalf of life itself.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The paper on food system breakdown is a
preprint of a chapter in the forthcoming book by Professor Bendell, <i>Breaking
Together</i> (Goodworks, TSI, 2023). To get notified of when and how receive a
free epub version of the book, <a href="https://jembendell.com/#subscribe-blog">subscribe
to Prof Bendell’s blog</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The book launch will be at the Glastonbury
Deep Adaptation event, with Satish Kumar, Gail Bradbrook, Skeena Rathor, Rachel
Donald and Indra Donfrancesco on June 18<sup>th</sup> in the UK. <a href="https://www.deepadaptationglastonbury.co.uk/">Information and tickets:
DeepAdaptationGlastonbury.co.uk</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The preface to the paper follows below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Download <a href="https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6927/">the pdf of the paper</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Preface from the author<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This Occasional Paper is one output from a
2-year research project with an interdisciplinary team including an agricultural
scientist, heterodox economist, and environmental journalist, as well as
myself, a sociologist undertaking critical interdisciplinary research analysis
on sustainable development issues. It outlines six hard trends which drive a
global food system breakdown. The paper is an excerpt from my forthcoming book
on the topic of societal collapse, Breaking Together, and shared now due to the
urgent implications for both local and national governmental policies,
philanthropy strategies, and organisational or personal decisions relating to
food security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As an academic it should come as no
surprise when I claim that the scientific method is a powerful approach for
understanding reality. But it should also be no surprise that an academic also
recognises how the cultural, economic and institutional influences on the
research process, and the ‘siloing’ of research into disciplines, constrains
what specialists in specific disciplines choose to conclude and communicate.
Rather than asking too much of science, we have been asking too little of it,
by not interrogating sufficiently the way cultural and institutional factors,
derived from systems of capital and power, are influencing questions and
findings in ways that reduce the impetus for radical change. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Scientists who take these limitations
seriously have been sounding the alarm for society. Two hundred of them warned
of potential ‘global systemic collapse’ in a report that also explained why we
do not hear such warnings so often and so clearly. "Many scientists and
policymakers are embedded in institutions that are used to thinking and acting
on isolated risks, one at a time," their report said [1]. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">That is why critical interdisciplinary
research analysis is so important. First, it is driven by the intention of
identifying knowledge that is salient to an issue of public interest. It
identifies research publications from a variety of different disciplines that
are potentially relevant to that issue and then analyses them for what might be
the most important findings on that issue. Sometimes such findings are not what
the original researchers focused on in those publications being analysed. The
process of salience identification by a research analyst involves
cross-referencing findings and claims from different subject specialisms. It is
aided by a ‘critical’ approach, which stems from appreciating the many
influences on any process of conducting and disseminating research. They
include the financial and political pressures for remaining deferential to
established ideas and institutions, the de-radicalising influence of privilege,
a wish to avoid difficult emotions and the ideology of progress that can shift
where the burden of proof is seen to lie when considering data. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">To do critical interdisciplinary research analysis
well, it can help to have experience from different cultural, professional, and
disciplinary contexts. It is also useful to have training in scientific
methodologies, the history and philosophy of science, the humanities, and
critical literacy. The latter term refers to understanding how frames,
narratives and discourse shape what is assumed, excluded or focused on, in ways
that are produced by power relations and then reproduce those power relations.
Without such experiences and training, when scientists generalise outside of
their field of expertise, it can involve the unconsidered use of ‘common sense’
assumptions that reflect dominant culture and exclude analyses that challenge
their worldviews. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">By recognising the limitations of
reductionist research and siloed disciplines, scholars who are interested in
‘systems thinking’ come close to such approaches but don’t always critically
analyse the source material for the biases described above. Unfortunately,
critical interdisciplinary research analysis is a capability that is neither
taught nor resourced in scholarship, nor rewarded with opportunities for
professional progression. Because such analysis can lead to conclusions beyond
those made within the specific disciplines being drawn upon, and can relegate
to irrelevance some of the nuance and semantic detail, it can annoy
discipline-restrained scholars. When the conclusions are particularly
troubling, or threatening to the establishment, then reactions can be unusually
negative and seek to marginalise the people, concepts and organisations
involved. Typically, that can involve accusations of sloppiness, arrogance,
conspiratorial mindsets, political bias, or extremism. Unfortunately, the
temptation can be high for some experts to make such accusations if they seek
to position themselves as more reasonable in the eyes of the establishment
(whether for their professional advancement, or their theory of change, or even
a subconscious need to fawn to power in response to growing anxiety).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In the case of societal collapse, and the
food crisis, the issue is so important that, as scholars, we must not be
deterred by such reactions. I encourage you to interrogate the arguments in
this paper for yourself, via the references provided. The paper does not
provide ideas on how to respond to the crisis it identifies. There are many
ideas and positive activities occurring, some of which will be covered in my
book Breaking Together. This paper is an preprint of Chapter 6 of that book,
and therefore refers to the book and other chapters throughout. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jem Bendell, March 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[1] Scientists Warn Multiple Overlapping
Crises Could Trigger 'Global Systemic Collapse': ScienceAlert. <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-top-scientists-warn-combined-environmental-crises-will-cause-global-collapse">https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-top-scientists-warn-combined-environmental-crises-will-cause-global-collapse</a>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin7OkalznZKpm8xREvCgJgDKSjfllafvzq0FGiGVSiXN0mMOyYN9YLZjsj0ztoYxj9E_yYvDPk4xhG_npukSm4nnwICEd7eERL1FteT3K7mUeIcGMzGckiYp3eqzTdkg_bN1O7OV3Wp3VbQt_nyIpCBoz_niNpZSlece9HvYbw-LWwONLcaVIXK21PlQ/s2048/the%20farm%20begins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1879" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin7OkalznZKpm8xREvCgJgDKSjfllafvzq0FGiGVSiXN0mMOyYN9YLZjsj0ztoYxj9E_yYvDPk4xhG_npukSm4nnwICEd7eERL1FteT3K7mUeIcGMzGckiYp3eqzTdkg_bN1O7OV3Wp3VbQt_nyIpCBoz_niNpZSlece9HvYbw-LWwONLcaVIXK21PlQ/s320/the%20farm%20begins.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-90906609952612513402022-11-21T13:50:00.000-08:002022-11-21T13:50:22.206-08:00The Influence of the Concept of Deep Adaptation in Academic Literature - by October 2022<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorian Cavé, November 21st, 2022. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0e1fb7e5-7fff-9d40-61ea-bef040950b09"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Deep Adaptation (DA) paper was published by the University of Cumbria in </span><a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-paper-on-deep-adaptation-to-climate.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 2018</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In the following 2 years it was downloaded over a million times and inspired the creation of networks of people focused on reducing harm in the face of societal disruption and collapse. To assess the way the concept is spreading and being used in society, the <a href="http://eepurl.com/gjtFJH" target="_blank">Deep Adaptation Quarterly</a> commissioned Dorian Cavé to conduct a literature review. The study used Google Scholar to discover what academic papers referenced the original DA paper. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As of late October 2022, the DA paper is referenced in at least 295 publications, including 138 journal articles, 49 book chapters, 44 books, 42 theses (incl. BA, MA and PhD), and 22 other documents. The full list can be <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dgZXHcB80-2VhWvXxiFrkpuXvk3T4KWxCvoFK9D7eMg/edit#heading=h.nktw8t1fjka3" target="_blank">accessed here</a>. In this article, summaries are provided of those papers found to offer a substantive discussion or application of the DA concept.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you referenced the DA paper in a scholarly publication which you don’t find in <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dgZXHcB80-2VhWvXxiFrkpuXvk3T4KWxCvoFK9D7eMg/edit#heading=h.nktw8t1fjka3" target="_blank">the full list</a>, please send Dorian a link to your publication and he will add it: </span><a href="mailto:dorian.cave@uni.cumbria.ac.uk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dorian.cave@uni.cumbria.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Contents:</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Scholarly publications that cite the Deep Adaptation paper with depth of discussion
ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING
ARTS & LITERATURE
EDUCATION & (UN)LEARNING
PHILOSOPHY
POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY
PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
ARTICLES CITED
</i></span></span></p><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 4pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 20pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Scholarly publications that cite the Deep Adaptation paper with a depth of discussion</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NB: Items in this section with two asterisks (**) are those I find of outstanding interest, and very much relevant to the DA field. Those with one asterisk (*) are “about” deep adaptation, or focused on a theme central to the DA paper (e.g. collapse, eco-anxiety, denial, etc.). Those without an asterisk cite the DA paper, but are less directly relevant to the DA field, although still worth a look.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In July 2022, SPOOL, a peer-reviewed journal in the field of architecture and the built environment, dedicated </span><a href="https://spool.ac/index.php/spool/issue/view/21" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an issue</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to the topic of Deep Adaptation. Here are some articles worthy of note.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel Zwangsleitner and colleagues*, who teach at the Professorship of Urban Design at Technical University Munich, describe how their teaching philosophy and practice in the fields of planning, urban design, and architecture, have been heavily influenced by the Deep Adaptation Agenda. They consider the DA paper, which they assign to read in their seminars and design-studios, as a call "to enact radical action and thinking" and to "fundamentally [question] the way we live, work, move, and organise our cities" (p.61). The paper is also a foundation for the </span><a href="https://www.arc.ed.tum.de/en/ud/professorship/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Post-Acceleration Urban Development' manifesto</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is at the heart of their teaching, and which foregrounds critical and self-reflexive thinking, as well as a keen attention to the political dimensions of spatial practitioners' practice with regards to potential system change.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meanwhile, Miller and Nay** explore how the concept of deep adaptation may constitute a methodology helping to subvert the dominant practices of 'green' design, and crisis thinking. In particular, alternative Indigenous design ontologies that are put into practice within an Oceanic context can be viewed as manifesting decolonial responses that reclaim urban spaces for the Indigenous city, and support community development through climate change adaptation and migration. These are responses that are rooted in 'deep time', as part of radically different epistemological frameworks - much better suited to an uncertain future - than those used by mainstream Western architects, urban planners, designers and educators. While the latter should refrain from appropriating Indigenous techniques and technologies, the article is an invitation for them to reconsider the universalizing nature of green design paradigms, become more meaningfully engaged with the local context of their practice, and explore the practical dimension of design as decolonial practice. As the authors stress, "Indigenous communities learned to live with environmental crisis, survived genocide, and have thrived in the resurgence of their ways of knowing. Listening and learning from Indigenous communities is an essential starting point for deep adaptation" (p.68).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, Rosengren, Polleter, Sarkez-Knudsen and Mameli* present four empirical snapshots of innovative socio-spatial practices or actions taking place in northern European urban contexts - including urban gardening, commoning, intergenerational living, and learning to perceive a more-than-human urbanity. Each of these case studies engages dialectically and critically with one of the 4 "R's" of the Deep Adaptation Agenda. The authors consider that deep adaptation "should be defined less in relation to a socio-ecological 'collapse' and more through everyday occurrences in present-day urban environments" (p.5). They also articulate a critique of the Agenda, which they view as anthropocentric. Embracing Donna Haraway's ontic-epistemic approach, they recommend a deeper consideration of the agential capacities of other-than-humans in order to produce the active hope that the Agenda calls for.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ARTS & LITERATURE</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lara Stevens (2019)* considers the need for a ‘deep dramaturgy’, emphasising the relinquishment of certain attitudes and theatrical practices - and the restoration of others - in view of our global predicament. She examines examples of ‘Anthroposcenic’ performances, such as those devised by Maria Fernanca Cardoso with her </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cardoso Flea Circus, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and considers the extent to which these creations succeed in fostering an ecological consciousness by demanding "we surrender human exclusivity over artistic production" and "relinquish the human delusion of our monopoly over beauty, reason and aesthetic appreciation as well, more radically still, as the idea that everything beautiful in the world is for our consumption alone." (p.96) </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phoebe Wagner (2021)** develops a theory of the environmental grotesque as a genre now emerging in contemporary literature, by studying Richard Powers' novel </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Overstory</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2018). She contends that contrary to previous environmental fiction, which only brought up a reactionary response (based on fear) in the reader, environmental grotesque works go further, by depicting stories of tolerance and normalisation of our broken world, and of cooperative survival in spite of the horror it may cause. In a time of collapse, "the environmental grotesque can become a transformative tactic" because "we must learn to live—and hopefully thrive—with this environmental devastation, which will require a transformation of human life as well" (p.2).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for Susan M. Squier (2022), she looks into the narrative and aesthetic strategies of several climate change comics, to reveal how such comics may challenge climate denial. The affectively charged narratives she describes, which tend to be specific, detailed, and full of human warmth, make it easier for the reader to engage meaningfully with "hyperobjects" such as climate change or mass species extinctions.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EDUCATION & (UN)LEARNING</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an incisive analysis, Veronika Bohac Clarke (2019)* reflects on two growing trends in academia, particularly in the humanities, "which separately contribute to self-censorship, doublespeak, obsessive crafting of personal brands, egocentrism, and sanitized discourse and publication output" (p.90). She uses Ken Wilber's integral theory as a lens to examine how two different academic populations (faculty and students), whom she groups in two different developmental levels, are pressured into fearful and maladaptive responses to the academic system. These responses severely limit the quality and boldness of research output, as well as its relevance to real-world issues (such as climate disruptions and mass migrations), and foster collective myopia. She considers ways in which universities might transform in order to bring the best out of people, regardless of their developmental adaptations to the complexity of the contexts in which they live.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By exploring the life narratives of residents of three European ecovillages, Pisters, Vihinen and Figeiredo (2020) analyse the transformative and transgressive dimensions of place-based learning. They find that such radical lifestyle changes tend to foster deep personal shifts, particularly with regards to relations towards self, other, the material, non-human and spirituality. Leaning into conflict and difficult emotions appear to be key avenues for personal growth and transformation towards an ecological consciousness.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharon Stein (2019)** considers what might be needed for higher education institutions to prepare learners for the collapse of the modern-colonial existence, which such institutions are dependent on and actively reproducing. She advocates addressing the denials that keep the modern-colonial habit-of-being in place - including the denials of systemic colonial violence, of unsustainability, and of the condition of our entanglement. She also outlines some of the deep changes that need to take place within intellectual, relational, and affective dimensions of (un)learning. Further, Stein and colleagues from the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (2020) present a series of pedagogical cartographies, alongside reflections on the context of their development and use, as a support for people to "stay with the trouble" of decolonization in various contexts. They highlight the many difficulties of engaging in such work without reproducing colonial habits of being rooted in modern consumptive desires and entitlements.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PHILOSOPHY</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ian Roderick (2022)* considers the multiple ethical implications of carrying out forecasting and 'future studies' research. Particularly with regards to matters of societal collapse, impacts may range from the emotional to the political dimensions, especially within a sensationalistic media landscape. He suggests that an ethics of care and respect, cherishing humanity as part of nature, is of primordial importance.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This conclusion is shared by Jonathan Leighton and Jem Bendell (2022)*, in another paper on the ethical implications of anticipating and witnessing societal collapse. They report on a focus group conversation that took place among participants in the Scholars' Warning initiative, with the aim of exploring some of the ways that anticipating collapse might influence people's values and those of society at large, and the ways in which such conversations should take place. Their conclusions foreground the universal value of avoiding intense suffering, for both humans and other-than-humans; the need to beware of group boundaries that are often arbitrarily defined by systems of power for the benefit of a few; and the importance of relying on inclusive, participatory decision-making processes rooted in compassion, fairness and mutual respect.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a book chapter titled "Venezuela, Oil and Climate Change: Overcoming Nostalgia" (2021)**, Cristina Margarita Carbonell Betancourt and Marcela Scarpellini deliver a thorough examination of the dire situation of Venezuela, a country "in a deep state of collapse" (p.8), and use the DA agenda to consider ways of transforming Venezuela's political, economic, and cultural ‘operating systems’. As they point out, the challenges faced by this country are both representative of those that await many other parts of the world (including displacement, conflict, malnutrition, economic collapse, etc.), but also of critical importance geopolitically. Indeed, Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world: therefore, whether it yields to the lure of extracting these reserves in a short-term bid to fix its current woes, or whether it succeeds in leaving this oil underground and seeks novel paths forward, will be crucial. The authors outline a comprehensive, biomimetic plan of action, based on the work of Elinor Ostrom and others, which would notably empower local and regional stakeholders through bioregional, polycentric governance; foster a localised, diversified, and circular economy detached from the fixation on economic growth and from the extraction of fossil fuels; as well as restore ecosystems, and promote the cultural wisdom and heritage of Indigenous populations. They point out that such deep changes could only take place on the foundation of a process enabling Venezuelans to acknowledge past and present grief, and work towards a national reconciliation process, in view of the widespread political and economic oppression that has characterised the country's history. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier (2021)* argue that the concepts of Deep Adaptation and collapsology articulate radical alternatives to the current hegemonic order, and that they are helping to re-politicise climate change as an acute threat, in essential ways. They consider that both approaches call for a clear plan of action, based on decarbonising energy use, planning for degrowth, and relocalising key systems such as energy, food and water. The authors also view the mainstream emphasis on resilience as distracting, given the need for deep and systematic transformation of the global post-political regime. The same authors have also put forth the need for a radical, DA-inspired paradigm change and regime transition for the maritime transport sector and supply chain (2020)*.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By means of a detailed typology, encompassing various views on the seriousness of climate change, prospects for climate mitigation, and the types of mitigation measures that can be put into place, Anders Nordgren (2021) analyses a variety of pessimistic and optimistic opinions expressed in the debate on climate change. He stresses that it is problematic to speak about this pessimism and optimism in general terms, and points to the importance of uncertainty in climate models, and of commenters' own political ideologies, as key factors determining their more pessimistic or optimistic views on different aspects of climate change impacts. Focusing on some of the forms of 'climate optimism' that correspond to those analysed in Nordgren's paper, Philip J. Wilson (2021) considers how attempts to shield the public from the realities of climate change, and suppressing truth in the name of positivity, can lead to climate inaction.</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PSYCHOLOGY</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susanne Moser (2020)** writes about the difficult work of "after it's too late" (to prevent dangerous climate change). As Western society approaches "both symbolic and actual death," (p.2) and is entering its final decline or at least a profound transformative process, what is to be done? Her response: politics that face into the cultural taboo of endings; continued climate mitigation; transformational adaptation; ending separation; and inner work.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph TC Rehling (2021)* uses an existential lens to examine the phenomenon of eco-anxiety, a state of being that triggers concerns around issues of death, isolation, meaning, and freedom/responsibility. The author finds the approach useful as a way to inform clinical therapeutic work, based on encouraging and facilitating active engagement of people in distress with the topic of climate change, for example through group or community interventions. In his doctoral thesis (2021)*</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Rehling elaborates on how mental health services might support "small-group, nature-based, eco-behavioural interventions" (p.147).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Similarly, Lewis and colleagues (2020)* discuss how climate anxiety gives rise to a myriad of dialectics in people who experience distress in view of the immensity of climate change as a problem. From a therapeutic perspective, the authors strongly recommend an exploration and transcendence of these dialectics by mental health practitioners. Instead of seeking to reduce patients' climate anxiety, following the usual approach, practitioners should help them to transform it "into relational, agentic, cognitive, and spiritual forms of adaptation to climate threats" (p.291).</span></p><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SOCIOLOGY</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helen Etchanchu, Frank G.A. de Bakker and Giuseppe Delmestri (2021)* consider the agency of sustainability-related social movement organisations. They focus in particular on various strategies of carrying out internal and external organising, and outline key factors that may contribute to movement success. A case study of Extinction Rebellion leads them to highlight the movement's connections with Fridays for Future and the Deep Adaptation movements, and to examine the novel forms of organising that XR introduced. The chapter concludes with a call for more engaged forms of research on behalf of scholars, to help further the goals of such movements.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his MA thesis titled </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The End of the World as We Know it: Hope, Despair and Action among Deep Adapters</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2021)**, Chris Tröndle explores the topic of “How do Deep Adapters imagine the future?” by sharing fictional stories collected from Deep Adaptation spaces. The research questions “Which emotions follow the acceptance of collapse as a possibility for the future and how are they dealt with?” and “How does anticipation of collapse influence everyday life and activism?” are explored in more detail through ethnographic research. This research depicts various elements of the Deep Adaptation journeys of Chris and his research participants. He concludes that criticisms brought forth against the Deep Adaptation framework as disempowering and leading to apathy do not hold up with his research participants - most of whom have been inspired to undertake various new creative endeavours around the topic of collapse; and that collapse anticipation and Deep Adaptation, in fact, are essential to the environmental movement.</span></p><br /><br /><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ARTICLES CITED ABOVE</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bohac Clarke, V. (2019). 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Edward Elgar Publishing.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906035.00019" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906035.00019</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leighton, J., & Bendell, J. 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Climate Dialectics in Psychotherapy: Holding Open the Space Between Abyss and Advance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Psychodynamic Psychiatry</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">48</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(3), 271–294.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2020.48.3.271" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2020.48.3.271</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miller, J., & Nay, E. 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(2021). Embracing the Environmental Grotesque and Transforming the Climate Crisis. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, isab086.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isab086" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isab086</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wilson, P. J. (2021). Climate Change Inaction and Optimism. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Philosophies</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(3), Article 3.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6030061" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6030061</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zwangsleitner, D., Carnelli, E., Boucsein, B., & Fettahoglu-Özgen, E.-S. (2022). It’s too late for pessimism: How the Deep Adaptation Agenda is relevant for teaching in the spatial disciplines. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SPOOL</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2), 57–64.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.47982/spool.2022.2.04" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi.org/10.47982/spool.2022.2.04</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2u4WmPwOoGYhRyHEMI7jnMLo79ewbERdDALATqgpUGIWnFcP1d0xLLCh-FYW5a9gcWgdiiz-Yulre8o9Lp2eKm4So6x47tNC3-T3zKwVlAlc9ISXZdMd_KuucID2v-zzDgDZllGAWOZiWzRlDpIoa8X_E9czilxHRByNuPLcWZXRrB4iZ_5LwdhrViQ/s4624/20221028_140052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2u4WmPwOoGYhRyHEMI7jnMLo79ewbERdDALATqgpUGIWnFcP1d0xLLCh-FYW5a9gcWgdiiz-Yulre8o9Lp2eKm4So6x47tNC3-T3zKwVlAlc9ISXZdMd_KuucID2v-zzDgDZllGAWOZiWzRlDpIoa8X_E9czilxHRByNuPLcWZXRrB4iZ_5LwdhrViQ/s320/20221028_140052.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mushrooms near the Ambleside Campus, University of Cumbria, October 2022</div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><br /></p><br /></span>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-65773725151660445892022-11-07T12:11:00.002-08:002022-11-22T08:32:19.385-08:00Cumbria University Professor hosts discussion of localised heat reduction at COP27 UN climate conference<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The 27th UN climate conference, this time in</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, is underway. O</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">n November 7th at COP27, University of Cumbria Professor Dr Jem Bendell, hosted a presentation by the founder of the <a href="https://www.meerreflection.com/home" target="_blank">MEER Framework</a>. Dr Ye Tao presented the crucial need for more options for cheap, local, ground-level and safe solar reflection systems. "These are not the grand schemes of venture capitalists or billionaires, but simple tools that might help the poor to cope with extremes of temperatures" explained Professor Jem Bendell. "They need urgent testing and refinement, as without them, progress towards netzero could have a really hot twist in the tale for the urban poor when the dimming effects from dirty fuels are reduced." </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">The video of the presentation by Prof Bendell and by Dr Tao is online at <a href="https://www.facingfuture.earth/" target="_blank">Facing Future TV</a>. Scroll to the end for the video. </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZaOdmQYTi_EOKqjDbgvfpEmrGrgIyaGz_yRPY7GN0IYN72kvtRw25b1x2HNqWgJScfqeiX589Yd1OBfZYDMWoQIHB9g8_H6Ep1hPj1Y07Mp3p3KKhxuwru4Edc4x2I_DgKdYSoMPsW8UGYzPsxD0n1ojdlxj8KkpDeSDYVEfq7YCpHmwcwtbmddXkw/s1280/photo_2022-11-07_19-29-52.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZaOdmQYTi_EOKqjDbgvfpEmrGrgIyaGz_yRPY7GN0IYN72kvtRw25b1x2HNqWgJScfqeiX589Yd1OBfZYDMWoQIHB9g8_H6Ep1hPj1Y07Mp3p3KKhxuwru4Edc4x2I_DgKdYSoMPsW8UGYzPsxD0n1ojdlxj8KkpDeSDYVEfq7YCpHmwcwtbmddXkw/s320/photo_2022-11-07_19-29-52.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif">At the end of the session, in the Press Room of COP27, Professor Bendell read out the </span><a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2022/11/scholars-oath-to-future.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Scholars' Oath to the Future</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> for the first time. Already 165 scholars from 34 countries have endorsed it, and it is now open for wider support. </span><p></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;">The following are the remarks made by Professor Bendell during the session. </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i>"The Guardian reported today that the word 'scary' is on the lips of many scientists. It’s
difficult to be scared all the time. But emissions are up. Atmospheric carbon
is up. Temperature, sea levels and hunger are all rising. We all know it. But we
also know something more incriminating. The talks and agreements at the UNFCCC
over the past decades have not managed to change any of it. Instead, they
consistently move the goal posts. Back in May 1992 when the UNFCCC was formed,
member states agreed to cut emissions to stabilise atmospheric carbon at 354
parts per million by 2000. 22 years ago. But annual emissions have climbed 65%
since then. Then the world’s top climatologists stated in 2009 that if global
emissions had not peaked by 2020, we would face inevitable catastrophic
changes. But annual emissions reached a record high last year. They might continue
to move the goal posts, but we can’t play games with nature. Nature will always
win, because nature owns us, not the other way round. And that’s despite the
stories we tell ourselves about which one of us owns which bit of nature for
now. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i>Faced
with the bad news some experts ask us all to calm down. They finally admit that
‘OK it’s already worse than we had thought, but don’t worry, it won’t be as bad
as we had thought’. They say we just need all societies on the planet to throw
their emissions into high-speed reverse, have the negative emissions
technologies defy independent analysis to actually work properly, and be
blessed with a lot of climate luck from the ecosystems that we have already
disturbed. Opinion surveys show us that vast numbers of people believe that
won’t happen. Especially young people and increasingly people in the global
south. In response, we see the professional talk-shoppers criticize folks for
being ‘too negative’. But people losing their livelihoods or being displaced
from their homes do not benefit from such stubborn optimism of the professional
classes. Rather, ‘climate brightsiding’ where we are made to doubt what we can
see with our own eyes is limiting our agenda. It means we don’t support
disaster risk reduction, adaptation and reparations as much as we might. It
means we don’t support rapidly deployable technologies that could help people
who will suffer the most and the soonest. It means we don’t question the power
structures that are sending our children into a hellscape. It means we don’t
abandon our old ideas to become more radical.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><i>It’s
difficult to be scared all the time. Complete climate honesty is painful, but
necessary to try to reduce harm. Today we will hear from Dr Ye Tao about some
of the awkward science on climate change and a new initiative that seeks to
reduce the growing suffering. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><i>When working
at the Rowland Institute of Harvard University, Dr. Ye Tao was beginning to
realise just how bad the climate crisis is. In 2020 he founded the MEER
Framework after grasping the accelerating and ultimate consequences of the
climate crisis on Earth's delicate web of life. Educated as a biochemist,
physicist, material scientist, and custom instrumentation developer, he brings
the benefits of a multidisciplinary background in engineering and science to
the climate crisis."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><o:p>Then Dr Ye Tao made his presentation, which will be available soon at </o:p></span><a href="https://www.facingfuture.earth/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Facing Future TV</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">. After the presentation, Professor Bendell highlighted the problem that Dr Tao had explained. </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">"</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Thankyou Dr Tao for helping us to see that there is a
'netzero paradox' that’s dangerous to people living in big cities in the Global
South. On the one hand, the netzero paradox is that global dimming from aerosol
pollutants masks how the global average temperature would probably be already one
and half degrees celsius higher than in 1890. On the other hand, this netzero paradox is most
concerning for how the race to zero carbon will cause deadly temperature spikes
in major cities due to the heat island effect and lack of access to local
cooling systems. So
we need complete climate honesty. An answer must be found immediately and at
the very least, in low-to-zero carbon cooling solutions made rapidly available
in cities.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Fortunately, in recent months we are seeing more scientists
calling for more climate honesty, which includes attention to the bad-to-worst
case scenarios. In the journal paper “Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic
climate change scenarios”, an interdisciplinary team of eminent scientists
concluded “There is ample evidence that climate change could become
catastrophic. We could enter such “endgames” at even modest levels of warming… Facing
a future of accelerating climate change while blind to worst-case scenarios is
naive risk management at best and fatally foolish at worst.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>In the journal paper “Climate change and the threat to
civilization” other scientists concluded that: "There is, in sum, no solid
basis at present for dismissing the broken world and global collapse as too
unlikely to merit serious consideration.” In the journal paper “World
Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022” a group of eminent climate
scientists write that “The consequences of global heating are becoming
increasingly extreme, and outcomes such as global societal collapse are
plausible and dangerously underexplored.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>These studies echo a public call of over 500 scholars
issued 2 years ago for COP25, entitled the “Scholars’ Warning on Societal
Disruption and Collapse”. It requests not only to study collapse scenarios, but
also be straight with the public and policy makers than this is a plausible
future and so we must begin to prepare for it. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">These scientists and scholars also admit how the last
decades of climate science 'consensus' failed to predict the levels of
volatility and damage from current global heating. The most concerning analyses
were side-lined, and yet are proving to be closer to reality than the previous
'consensus.' The reasons why that 'establishment climatology' failed to
prioritise the communicating of bad-to-worse scenarios must be learned from as
we enter more turbulent times. That learning must include scientists, science
communicators and other environment professionals reflecting on the past
choices they and we have made. Then a new approach would be beneficial, which
does not hide behind claims of pure objectivity or wish to project confidence
about future scenarios or the human capacity for controlling outcomes. The risk
that massive new funding may distort this learning process, as well as future
science, communication and policy-making, needs to be recognised. More radical
and less-corporate approaches are needed to generate the kind of creative ideas
that humanity urgently needs. Over 150 scholars who work on climate issues in
34 countries have therefore endorsed a </span><a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2022/11/scholars-oath-to-future.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Scholars' Oath to the Future</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">, which I
will read publicly for the first time today."</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>You can see a Q&A between Prof Jem and Dr Tao <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOBWXz6zX-0" target="_blank">here</a>. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vw85K7MjwYk" width="320" youtube-src-id="vw85K7MjwYk"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-90634733941190902422022-11-05T15:54:00.000-07:002022-11-05T15:54:20.950-07:00Scholars' Oath to the Future <p>At the COP27 climate summit of the UNFCCC, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the Scholars' Oath to the Future is launched. Within the oath, scholars apologise for their past caution and promise to all young people who face a climate-damaged future that they will be bolder and more engaging in future. </p><p>The text of the oath follows below. By the day of its launch, 165 scholars from 34 countries had taken the oath. Over the coming months they will read it to their students or other young persons they work with and engage with the feedback. The list of those scholars, and who they work with, follows below. </p><p><b><u>Scholars' Oath to the Future </u></b></p><p><strong id="docs-internal-guid-339109a3-7fff-6b3f-341b-f0dca0756a6d" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">This is an apology and an oath of renewed commitment. It is an apology from me and my fellow scholars, to you, the younger generations whom we are meant to serve. It is also an oath to learn from our past mistakes as we seek to better contribute in future. <br /><br />That future is bleak. You, amongst the younger generations, are clearer on that than most older people. You know that the total pollution and devastation has exceeded the planet's capacity to cope. You know that today's dominant economies compel that destruction to continue. You have a clearer sight on the situation than most people older than you because you are less compromised in how you assess the bad news. You are less likely to assume the future will be like the past. You are less likely to keep quiet about uncomfortable ideas for fear of hurting your income, reputation, or influence. You are less likely to try to believe something because it might numb your own pain. That is because you must live in the future that will exist, not one that many older people prefer to imagine when they dismiss 'negative thinking'.<br /><br />Scholars from around the world in many disciplines have known for years that the trends are in the wrong direction for humanity and life on Earth. Whatever corner of the world we live in, we have seen how our efforts to reverse worrying trends have not been working. We ignored all of that to allow credible lies to be put to policy makers, senior leaders and the general public. We justified our complacency to ourselves with a variety of explanations that put our own needs, pleasures and fears first. We blamed powerful others, rather than our own part in the charade.<br /><br />Today, the rich countries, large corporations, elite institutions and mainstream media all support the credible lies that subdue us so that we do not rebel against the global economic system. These lies form the modern face of processes of domination and exploitation that have existed for centuries. But from today we promise not to compromise any more. When there is unsettling analysis, we will share it. When there is injustice, we will name it. When there is distortion by national or corporate interest, we will challenge it. If we fear a backlash, then we will both name that fear and overcome it. Then, if you within younger generations are critical of our efforts, we will respond with curiosity and seek to make amends. Because we recognise that our role is to contribute to your future. <br /><br />Myself and my fellow scholars are sorry for our own part in not helping enough in the past. We promise to learn with you about how to reduce harm, uphold universal values, and enable futures that may still be possible. Therefore, I will tell others of this apology and oath, and promote mutual support. Then every year I will publicly reconfirm this commitment to all of you. </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">If you have a PhD you can take the <a href="http://eepurl.com/gCcn0f">oath here</a>. People who take the oath will then be invited to participate in a video project and also to share their experiences of discussions with young people about making this commitment real. </strong></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">The Oath is already available in 6 languages: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13y54EJ7Jcs_NFvBprblOhoFVgbLwH01FTphcELp44ro/edit#bookmark=id.2zp1dokcln39" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">English</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13y54EJ7Jcs_NFvBprblOhoFVgbLwH01FTphcELp44ro/edit#bookmark=id.3kkm4iv4u9ey" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Français</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13y54EJ7Jcs_NFvBprblOhoFVgbLwH01FTphcELp44ro/edit#bookmark=id.8q7kegi3cazy" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Español</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13y54EJ7Jcs_NFvBprblOhoFVgbLwH01FTphcELp44ro/edit#bookmark=id.nnu0hos8us70" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Pусский</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13y54EJ7Jcs_NFvBprblOhoFVgbLwH01FTphcELp44ro/edit#bookmark=id.d239xzkx11no" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">中文</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13y54EJ7Jcs_NFvBprblOhoFVgbLwH01FTphcELp44ro/edit#bookmark=id.w999tzomsylj" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Bahasa</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">.</span></i></span></p><p><u><b>The following scholars are people with a PhD and who take the oath in a personal capacity:</b></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rachelle Adam, Law Faculty, Hebrew
University, IL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John Adams, Saybrook University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jorn Altmann, Seoul National University, KR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Alexandra-Ellen Appel, Personal capacity,
Greenpeace, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Adele Aubrey, University of Manchester, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Susan Bailey, Edith Cowan University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nicole Bale, Royal Netherlands Institute
for Sea Research, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bobby Banerjee, City University of London,
PT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Wolmet Barendregt, Eindhoven University of
Technology, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michael Bauer, Naropa University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">David Bazett-Jones, University of Toronto,
CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Alan Bellamy, Unattached, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jem Bendell, University of Cumbria, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Geoff Berry, International Ecopsychology
Society, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Andreas Birgegard, Karolinska institutet,
SE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Betsy Bolton, Swarthmore College, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dominique Bourg, University of Lausanne, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Andii Bowsher, Northumbria University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Elizabeth Bragg, Sustainable Futures
Australia, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Miguel Brandao, KTH Royal institute of
Technology, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mark Bricca, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Lajos Brons, Lakeland University Japan, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jennifer Browdy, Bard College at Simon's
Rock, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hedy Bryant, Charles Sturt University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Leandro Caniglia, Unattached, AR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hamilton Carvalho, USP, BR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jindra Cekan, Unattached, CZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Floriane Clement, INRAE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Yves Cochet, Institut Momentum, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Matt Colborn, Alef Trust, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John Colvin, Emerald Nwetwork Ltd, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mickael Coriat, IRAP - University Toulouse
3, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">David Crookall, UCA, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ika Darnhofer, University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, AT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mathew Davis, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Todd Dean, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bridget Doran, Unattached, NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jeffrey Douglass, Unattached, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hannah Dugdale, University of Groningen, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Francois Dulac, Commissariat à l'énergie
atomique et aux énergies alternatives, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jean-Baptiste Durand, CIRAD, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Victoria Esteves, University of Stirling,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jelel Ezzine, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs
de Tunis (ENIT), TN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sherry Falsetti, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Blair Feltmate, University of Waterloo, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Tina Fields, Naropa University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Tobi Fishel, USC Institute for Integrative
Health & Wellness, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rachel Forgasz, Monash University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Robert Fowler, University of Adelaide, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Katy Fox, Mycelium Design, LU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Gudula Frieling, Unattached, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Tomasz Ganicz, Technical Univeristy of
Lodz, PL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dwight Gaudet, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology
(UTS), AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Susan Goldsworthy, International Institute
for Management Development, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Anthony Goodchild, apha.gov.uk, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Christopher Gore, Unattached, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Aidy Halimanjaya, Dala Institute for
Environment and Society, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Juan Jesus Haro Mora, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hiroshi Hasegawa, The Research Institute
for Saving Mother Earth, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Julie Hawkins, University of Reading, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stephen Healy, UNSW, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Yogi Hendlin, Erasmus School of Philosophy,
NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John Hiemstra, The King's University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, University of
South Australia, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kerryn Higgs, University of Tasmania, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mark Hixon, University of Hawaii, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Daniel Hoyer, The Evolution Institute, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ric Hudgens, Viridis Graduate Institute, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stasha Huntingford, Mount Royal University,
CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Justine Huxley, St Ethelburga's Centre for
Reconciliation and Peace, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John James, University of New South Wales,
AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Robert R. Janes, Coalition of Museums for
Climate Justice, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nico Jenkins, Maine College of Art, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jeremy Jimenez, SUNY Cortland, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stephen Johnson, Unattached, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Philip Johnson, University of Hawaii, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mike Joy, Victoria University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sean Kelly, California Institute of
Integral Studies, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Chrislain Eric Kenfack, University of
Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Peter Kindfield, Hilltop Education
Connections, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bernadette Kirwan, Unattached, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bartlomiej Knosala, Politechnika Śląska, PL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Paul Kreiss, Concordia University Chicago,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eva Lantsoght, Universidad San Francisco de
Quito, EC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Greg Lennon, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Joel Levey, Wisdom at Work, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rolla Lewis, California State University,
East Bay, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Vicki Little, RMIT University, Vietnam, VN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Christian Mahieu, ANIS-Catalyst, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Janet Maker, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">David Mark Welch, Marine Biological Laboratory,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rebecca Martin, District Council, NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stephen Martin, University of the West of
England Bristol, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Andrew Mathewson, University of Washington,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Aimee Maxwell, Unattached, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stella Mbau, LOABOWA, KE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bill McGuire, University College London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Josie McLean, The Partnership Pty Ltd, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Deena Metzger, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research &
Consulting, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Surajit C Mukhopadhyay, Amity University
Chhattisgarh, IN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Maaike Muntinga, Amsterdam UMC-VU
University, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sandra Niessen, Unattached, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Wolfgang Nitschke, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Diana Caroline Njama, Unattached, KE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Oluwaseun Oguntuase, Lagos State
University, NG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Leif Ohlsson, Gutenborg University, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sarah Ollier, Loughborough University, CZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Adi Ophir, Visiting Professor of the
Humanities, Brown University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hans C. Ossebaard, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Miguel Pajares, University of Barcelona, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michal Palasz, Jagiellonian University, PL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michael Palkowski, University of East
London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Yin Paradies, Deakin University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ronald Parry, Rice University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">David Pellow, University of California,
Santa Barbara, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">John Phelps, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">David Phillips, University of Southampton,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">C. J. Pickett, Swarthmore, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Max Pinsard, Low-tech Lab Montreal, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Igor Polskiy, GEN-Russia, ME<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Marion Princaud, Waste Hunter, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Josef Rabenbauer, Unattached, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Terry Rankin, Retired, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rupert Read, UEA, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">William Rees, University of British
Columbia, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eloy Revilla Sanchez, Estacion Biologica de
Doñana CSIC, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jane Rogers, Sheffield Hallam University,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Fred Rohrer, Pedagogical University
St.Gallen, Switzerland, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Amanda Root, Unattached, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Barton Rubenstein, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Daniel Ruiz, SSSUP, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stephen Rush, Unattached, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Noel Salazar, KU Leuven, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Steven Earl Salmony, AWAREness Campaign on
The Human Population, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Joseph Scalia III, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ginie Servant-Miklos, Erasmus University
College, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Caroline Smith, University of Tasmania, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jennie Stephens, Northeastern University,
IE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stephen Sterling, University of Plymouth,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Makere Stewart-Harawira, University of
Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ian Sturrock, Teesside University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Cedric Sueur, Universite de Strasbourg, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mark Swoiskin, UCSF, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Chong Kee Tan, Labishire Homestead Commons,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ye Tao, Rowland Institute at Harvard, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rachel Taylor, Unattached, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Wayne Teel, James Madison University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Lars Tranvik, Uppsala University, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Elia Valentini, University of Essex, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Leo van Kampenhout, Utrecht University, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Petra Verdonk, Amsterdam UMC-VU University,
NL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Marjolein Visser, Université libre de
Bruxelles, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Linda Vogelsong, WovenStory Productions, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nathanael Wallenhorst, UCO, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Arthur Weaver, Unattached, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Martin Weinel, Cardiff University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">William Welsh, Self, US<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Gesa Weyhenmeyer, Uppsala University, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">David Wheeler, Sustainable Transitions
Costa Rica, CR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sarah Williams, University of Cumbria, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dominique Beth Wilson, Western Sydney
University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">If you have a PhD you can take the <a href="http://eepurl.com/gCcn0f">oath here</a>. </strong> </p><p><br /></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-27372300218723538692022-05-27T22:32:00.004-07:002022-05-28T05:02:04.436-07:00Sad but Necessary Lessons at Rio+30 and Stockholm+50<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqUxFplVhEQwrrthbLUNae_oON-nPwW3nNidInWIt1duN5hn5zDsmvgi5H01eF6yDHr0fuSH9KUBzIN-xHCSTxD-eEH1gKIu2J9HZhWB-xzFLV3Ol_87zZCCIb3kY9c1eTry7UlLmsVX5amw7ljY5ovDXOVytfeBFhXDrVCHIZ5terOR5J3CCEKqSW6w/s527/1101920601_400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqUxFplVhEQwrrthbLUNae_oON-nPwW3nNidInWIt1duN5hn5zDsmvgi5H01eF6yDHr0fuSH9KUBzIN-xHCSTxD-eEH1gKIu2J9HZhWB-xzFLV3Ol_87zZCCIb3kY9c1eTry7UlLmsVX5amw7ljY5ovDXOVytfeBFhXDrVCHIZ5terOR5J3CCEKqSW6w/s320/1101920601_400.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">If you are over 40 years old, you might recall this cover from the first week of June in 1992. That means it is the 30</span><sup>th</sup><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> anniversary of that UN summit, which launched the sustainable development paradigm. It is also the 50</span><sup>th</sup><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> anniversary of the Stockholm
conference, which alerted world leaders to environmental challenges. Such anniversaries
previously brought much fanfare from the UN. Not this year. The backsliding on
poverty and the environment is so shocking and undermining of the efforts and
ideologies of our elite institutions, that these milestones might not get much attention. To learn about how bad that backsliding is, according to official UN data, see a paper from Professor Jem Bendell on <i><a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202205.0180/v1" target="_blank">Replacing Sustainable Development</a>,</i> currently in review.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">Because of an apparent lack of introspection on the implications of failure, over 100 scholars from 27 countries signed a public letter to delegates at a recent UN summit. It appeared in </span><i>The
Independent</i><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> newspaper, was presented to delegates at the UNDRR conference
and was accompanied by three Op Eds from signatories (links below). You can help </span><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">promote attention to such views during these milestones, and what could be learned from decades of failure. To do so, please engage online with the hashtags #RioPlus30 #Stockholm50 #StockholmAt50 #StockholmPlus50 #sdgFailure. One option is to share that </span><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-05-23/people-will-suffer-more-if-professionals-delude-themselves-about-sustainable-development-letter-to-un/">latest letter</a> <span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">from Scholars' Warning</span><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">Unfortunately,
the misrepresentation of anticipating massive disruption and even breakdown of
industrial consumer societies due to environmental change, or in reaction to
it, is increasing in mass media. They label it ‘doomism’ and argue it is wrong
and harmful, without reference to relevant psychology theories or actual data, some
of which shows the <a href="https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/ata/article/view/187" target="_blank">opposite can be true</a>. Journalists typically cite a few senior
experts in various fields of environmental study to make their case that
certain analyses are ‘disinformation’. Their efforts might reduce public learning
from past decades of failure, undermine calls for radical action and delay
focus on climate adaptation – a form of ‘</span><a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2021/10/adaptation-delayism-preventing-urgently.html">adaptation
delayism</a><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">’. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If you have conversations with academics about these issues, please invite them to consider <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2021/02/over-500-sign-scholarswarning-on.html">signing
the original Scholars’ Warning</a>. </span><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">Some signatories to the Scholars' Warning will be meeting in person in Lancaster (UK) on June 18<sup>th</sup> for
a free <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-adaptation-live-and-in-person-tickets-266876263087">open
space gathering</a>, hosted by the University of Cumbria. </span><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The
Independent</span></i><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> news story on the latest public letter<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/un-sustainable-development-failure-b2084034.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID;">100 scientist</span></a><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/un-sustainable-development-failure-b2084034.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID;">s urge UN to drop sustainable
development targets after ‘failure’ | The Independent</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The
full text of the letter with full list of signatories</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-05-23/people-will-suffer-more-if-professionals-delude-themselves-about-sustainable-development-letter-to-un/">People
will suffer more if professionals delude themselves about sustainable
development – Letter to UN - Resilience</a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Press
release on the latest public letter</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/over-100-scholars-from-around-world-tell-un-ditch-ideology-bendell/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID;">Over 100 scholars from around the
world tell the UN to ditch Sustainable Development ideology | LinkedIn</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Op Ed
in </span><i style="color: #222222;">The Independent</i><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> about the letter from Professor Jem Bendell</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/davos-switzerland-un-bali-climate-b2084431.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID;">The rich are gathering for Davos -
but elsewhere is the summit that actually matters | The Independent</span></a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-ID; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Op Ed
about the letter from signatory Dr Jeremy Jimenez</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-05-23/why-the-un-must-rely-more-on-indigenous-wisdom-and-less-on-fossil-fuels/">Why
the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels -
Resilience</a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Op Ed
about the letter from signatory Dr Rupert Read</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><a href="https://braveneweurope.com/rupert-read-the-failed-ideology-of-davos">Rupert
Read - The failed ideology of Davos - Brave New Europe</a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Personal
blog from Prof Jem Bendell, giving more context for the new letter</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://jembendell.com/2022/05/24/what-has-the-un-disaster-risk-reduction-agency-got-to-do-with-you/">What
has the UN Disaster Risk Reduction agency got to do with you? – Professor Jem
Bendell</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">The
pre-print of a paper on “</span><i style="color: #222222;">Replacing Sustainable Development</i><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">” which explores
the latest data on SDGs</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202205.0180/v1">Replacing
Sustainable Development: Potential Frameworks for International Cooperation in
an Era of Increasing Crises and Disasters.[v1] | Preprints</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Background
on the Scholars’ Warning initiative</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2021/02/over-500-sign-scholarswarning-on.html">Over
500 sign #ScholarsWarning on collapse risk (iflas)</a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span> </span></div><br /><p></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-89510122994333792822022-05-20T10:43:00.004-07:002022-05-25T20:38:41.867-07:00People will suffer more if professionals delude themselves about sustainable development – Letter to UN <p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyU1QJyO8ny50gQrM8A1io5jSdZ8JQXshOoWVSS1A9wrMvQFSSuj8Njr7TyOjngb3Yz1CnmQkF6HR3NYEZ29VJ_adjAloyK3E6-Ngd2ftN9FgapQEvxb13p9YTn9m08fGU88AfFLm5TS4uMK77Ycv3hQhk9JBQNyW1aevruDtS4JQ6pdocUeFadKjUzw/s2000/perfetto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="2000" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyU1QJyO8ny50gQrM8A1io5jSdZ8JQXshOoWVSS1A9wrMvQFSSuj8Njr7TyOjngb3Yz1CnmQkF6HR3NYEZ29VJ_adjAloyK3E6-Ngd2ftN9FgapQEvxb13p9YTn9m08fGU88AfFLm5TS4uMK77Ycv3hQhk9JBQNyW1aevruDtS4JQ6pdocUeFadKjUzw/w640-h326/perfetto.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[From scholarswarning.net and embargoed until May 23<sup>rd</sup>,
2022, 1am EST]</span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the start of a United Nations
summit on reducing the risks and impacts of disasters around the world, 100
scholars from 17 countries are stating publicly that increasing environmental mayhem
demands a rethinking of the goals of international aid and cooperation. On May
23<sup>rd</sup> 2022, their public letter appears in the Independent newspaper.
It calls on delegates to the <i>Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction</i>
to ditch the concept of sustainable development, due to 30 years of proven
failure from its allegiance to global capitalism. The full list of signatories
follows the letter below. Background information on the <i>International
Scholars’ Warning on societal disruption and collapse</i> is available </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/2021/03/05/launching-a-scholars-warning-initiative/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Letter:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The worldwide
increase in harm from human-caused environmental mayhem demands an urgent
refocusing of international aid and cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The United Nations
has reported non-existent progress to meet the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) on reducing poverty and environmental destruction.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As members of Universities and research institutes from around the
world, we know that UN Secretary-General António Guterres was right to state
that humanity is “</span><a href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2022/sgsm21196.doc.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">moving backwards</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in
relation to the majority of the SDGs.” As he emphasised, even</span><a href="https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3887571/files/The-SustainableDevelopmentGoalsReport2020.pdf"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3887571/files/The-SustainableDevelopmentGoalsReport2020.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">before impacts of the pandemic</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> response, the “number of people suffering from food insecurity was on
the rise, the natural environment continued to deteriorate at an alarming rate,
and dramatic levels of inequality persisted in all regions.” For instance, SDG
2 aims to end hunger, but world hunger has been rising since 2014, with more
than a quarter the world population affected by moderate or severe food
insecurity in 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coming in the wake
of the</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1109439"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1109439"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">failure
to meet</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> all the Millennium Development Goals, failure to
meet the SDGs is an indication of a systemic problem. If the way modern
societies operate cause the problems that the SDGs seek to address, can we be
surprised that those same systems are incapable of fixing them? It is becoming
clear that the assumptions that underpin the SDGs</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/SD.1947"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/SD.1947"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are
invalid</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, including continual economic expansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before now,
it may have been convenient for politicians, bureaucrats and people in the
organisations they fund, to maintain an upbeat message that more technology,
capital and management will solve both poverty and environmental destruction.
However, the evidence from the UN’s own reports show clearly that is merely a
convenient myth, and that billions of people would be better served by more
sober analysis of the worsening situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Decades of
failure must not be ignored. As we approach the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of
the</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rio Earth Summit</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, we
publicly call on the UN to drop the redundant and unhelpful ideology of
Sustainable Development. Instead, enabling communities to become more resilient
locally must become a central and cross-cutting principle for international
cooperation. Fair and</span><a href="https://www.iied.org/principles-for-locally-led-adaptation"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.iied.org/principles-for-locally-led-adaptation"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">locally-led adaptation</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to disruptions must be complemented with attempts to transition to new
socio-economic systems. That can involve some</span><a href="https://1drv.ms/b/s!AsCbAv6NZ38UgvdBHCyardeJFwe_UA?e=yqh124"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://1drv.ms/b/s!AsCbAv6NZ38UgvdBHCyardeJFwe_UA?e=yqh124"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">re-localization</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of trading
relationships and energy production, alongside the equitable</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">degrowth
of wealthy economies</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We agree with the
head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Mami
Mizutori, that “raising the alarm by speaking the truth is not only necessary
but crucial.” Our own analysis supports</span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-disaster-un-idAFL5N2WN1GZ"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-disaster-un-idAFL5N2WN1GZ"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the conclusion</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of Deputy
U.N. Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed that the world is entering “a spiral
of self-destruction.” However, the only way to stop the spiral is to drop
allegiance to economic growth and its attendant ideologies like Sustainable
Development, and reframe international cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As more
experts in</span><a href="https://www.undrr.org/terminology"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.undrr.org/terminology"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Disaster
Risk Management</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> abandon the idea
that an expansion of economic activity is always a necessity, they could help
shape a framework '</span><a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202205.0180/v1"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Replacing Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">', whereby policy making reduces harm in the face of growing
disruption, loss and damage. Therefore, during the</span><a href="https://www.undrr.org/"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.undrr.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UN’s
summit</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on disasters, we call on all international
agencies to help governments bring all policies into line with greater
resilience and risk reduction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lead
signatories, in a personal capacity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor
William Rees (University of British Columbia, Ecological Economics)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Malika Virah-Sawmy (IASS, Climate Adaptation)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Yves Cochet (Former Minister of the Environment, France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Stella Nyambura Mbau (LOABOWA, Climate Adaptation)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Ye Tao (MEER Framework, Climate Adaptation)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Sonja Kaiser (TUBAF, Earth System Modelling)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor
Jem Bendell (University of Cumbria, climate adaptation)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Clelia Sirami (INRAE, Ecology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Jeremy Jimenez (State University of New York, Education)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Britt Wray (Stanford University, Psychology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr
Rupert Read (UEA, Philosophy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>If you have a PhD and would like to engage other scholars in helping shift the policy agenda to one that recognises reality and the unfolding societal disruptions it entails, then please consider </i><a href="https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787bdf&id=7fc1ea497f"><i>signing the original</i></a><i> International Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse [www.scholarswarning.net]</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>If you are interested or working on related themes, but not a scholar, then I recommend the </i><a href="http://www.deepadaptation.info/"><i>Deep Adaptation Forum</i></a><i>. [www.deepadaptation.info]<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>If you are in the UK and would like to study leadership and communications on these topics in a 5-day starting on June 13<sup>th</sup>, then the </i><a href="https://store.cumbria.ac.uk/product-catalogue/general/short-courses/sustainable-leadership-2022"><i>deadline for your application is June 8</i></a><i><sup>th</sup>!<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All
100+ signatories, in a personal capacity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dr. Sheena Wilson, Professor, University of Alberta, ca</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dr. Geoffrey Samuel, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University, ca</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr.
David Schenck, Retired scientist, Independent, us</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Jean Rumbold, Honorary Associate, La Trobe University, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
William Welsh, Independent Scholar, Independent, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prof.
Brian Stewart, Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Ronald Parry, Scientist, Rice University, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Natasha Hurley-Walker, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Patrick Smith, Ecologist, Independent, id<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Hamilton Carvalho, Lecturer, USP, br<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Greg Lennon, Scientist, CarLen5050, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Caroline Smith, Adjunct in science education, University of Tasmania, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Rachel Forgasz, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Britt Wray, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University and London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prof.
Joyce Green, Professor, University of Regina, ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Joachim Schutz, CEO, alex2020 gmbh, ch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Gerd Bongs, Consultant, Dr. Gerd Bongs scientific consulting, at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Michel Dobrijevic, Astrophysicist, University of Bordeaux, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Els van Ooijen, Psychotherapist, Nepenthe Consulting, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prof.
Adi Ophir, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Gillian Ross, Author and meditation teacher, Independent, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Daniel Buckles, Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University, ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Wendy Hollway, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Open University, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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John Phelps, Educator, Burke Indivisible, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sonja Kaiser, Researcher, TUBAF Germany, de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Andreas Birgegard, Associate professor, Karolinska institutet, se<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Miguel Brandao, Associate professor, KTH Royal institute of technology, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Eleonore Faure, Scientist, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,
se<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Maria Johansson, Hvilan Utbildning, Reserchers Desk, se<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Stella Nyambura Mbau, Consultant, LOABOWA, ke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Eric Cavalcanti, Associate Professor, Griffith University, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jorn Altmann, Professor, Seoul National University, kr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Christoph Becker, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Lisa Nathan, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Geoff Berry, Ecophilosopher, International Ecopsychology Society, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Carol Wellwood, Botanist & Agroecologist, Independent, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Johannes Scheppach, Medical Doctor, Charity University Medicine Berlin, de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Bruno Gayral, Researcher, CEA-Grenoble, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Kirsten Shukla, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS
Trust, in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Noel B. Salazar, Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven, si<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Michel Cucchi, Assistant Director, University Hospital of Lille, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thierry Masson, Researcher, CNRS, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Marshall Tuttle, Lecturer in Music, Retired, Langston University, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Pascal Maugis, Researcher, LSCE, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Robert R. Janes, Museologist, Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice, ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Richard Parncutt, Lecturer, University of Graz, Austria, at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Anthony Goodchild, Veterinary Epidemiologist (retired), APHA, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Carlos de Castro, Professor, University of Valladolid. Applied Physics
departament. es<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Clelia Sirami, Researcher, INRAE, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Gregoire Wallenborn, Professor, Free University of Bruxelles, nl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Richard Jabot, Postdoctoral Researcher, Audencia FR, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Richard Smart, Geotechnical Engineer, Independent, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Marla Fisher, Teacher, Independent, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Josh Goldstein, Lecturer, university of southern California, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Morgan Phillips, Founder, The Glacier Trust, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Barry Gills, Scientist, University of Helsinki, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Julie Lavie, Researcher in Genetics, University of Bordeaux, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Elia Valentini, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, ie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Wolfgang Nitschke, Senior Scientist, CNRS, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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David Wheeler, Founder, Sustainable Transitions Costa Rica, cr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Malika Virah-Sawmy, Research Fellow, IASS, de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Stephen Martin, Visiting Professor, University of the West of England Bristol, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education, University of
Plymouth, nl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jean-Michel Hupe, Researcher, CNRS, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Marieke Van Lichtervelde, Research fellow, University of Toulouse, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dietmar Weinmann, Physicist, CNRS, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dalila Bovet, Ethologist, University of Paris Nanterre, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Magali Ollagnier-Beldame, Researcher, CNRS, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Eva Lantsoght, Professor, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, ec<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Yves Cochet, Former Minister of the Environment, France, Institut Momentum, fr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jeffrey Douglass, Scholar, Independent, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Aimee Maxwell, Psychologist, Independent, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Irene Malvestio, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitat de Barcelona, it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chris Murray, Emeritus Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Richland, WA, USA, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hedy Bryant, Facilitator and educator for living systems informed practice. HARK
Facilitation Services, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Mike Joy, Senior researcher/ecologist, Victoria University, hk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Elizabeth Downing, Climate educator, Awakening Wisdom Yoga and Meditation, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Terry Rankin, Activist, Independent, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Clifford Pickett, Jr. Molecular Biologist, Swarthmore, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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David Peters, Emeritus Professor Integrated Healthcare, university of
westminster, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Linda Vogelsong, Founder, WovenStory Productions, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Katy Fox, Ecosocial Designer, Mycelium Design, be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hans Eickhoff, Investigator, Degrowth Network Portugal, pt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Elspeth Crawford, Retired Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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John Adams, Emeritus Professor of Organizational Systems, Saybrook University, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Peter Kindfield, Founder and Lead Teacher, Hilltop Education Connections, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Arthur Weaver, Independent Scientist, Independent, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ye Tao, Founder, MEER Framework, be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ian Sturrock, Senior Lecturer, Teesside University, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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William Rees, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Martin Weinel, Research Associate, Cardiff University, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Vicki Little, Educator, Monash University Malaysia, nz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Yin Paradies, Professor of Race Relations, Deakin University, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Mark Swoiskin, Medical Doctor, UCSF, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Alison Farmer, Founder, Independent, us</span></p>
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Jem Bendell, Professor, University of Cumbria, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Rupert Read, Associate Professor, UEA, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jeremy Jimenez, Assistant Professor of Education , The State University of New
York (at Cortland), us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Alexandra Appel, Principal, INL Consulting, us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thomas Bristow, Honorary Fellow, University of Western Australia, au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr.
Lazlo Rampasek, CEO, OurOffset Nonprofit LLC. Hu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dr. Natalie Loveless, Associate Professor, University of Alberta. </p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span> </div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-14773435880375762982022-03-18T07:03:00.002-07:002022-03-19T04:57:08.862-07:00Toward radical responses to polycrisis: a review of reviews of the Deep Adaptation book <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>By Prof Jem Bendell</i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-eff60311-7fff-3624-cf51-e952dcb4e701"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soon it will be a year since the </span><a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Deep+Adaptation%3A+Navigating+the+Realities+of+Climate+Chaos-p-9781509546855" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">book I co-edited on ‘Deep Adaptation’</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to the coming breakdown of industrial consumer societies, mainly due to environmental stress, was published by Polity. Over that year, the idea of societies breaking down has become a little less taboo within research circles, with the emergence of terms like ‘</span><a href="https://cascadeinstitute.org/research/polycrisis/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">polycrisis</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’ to describe the contemporary situation where a variety of societal disruptions are interacting - health, inflation, conflict - to threaten the capability of people, organisations and governments to comprehend and respond. Despite that progress on the fringes of intellectual thought, there is still widespread resistance to even discuss the topic, which was reflected by many of the book reviews of Deep Adaptation. A particular type of negative review has emerged from the Left of British politics, which has been surprising to me given my involvement with the British Labour Party prior to 2018. Such reviews reflect a concern of some left-wing commentators that if we do not believe it possible to reform modern economies to produce a sustainable future of ‘Life as We Know It,' then we would not find motivation for longterm political organising to gain government power. This concern is something I will focus on in this review of the reviews. But first, I want to begin with a review that also expressed concern for mutual solidarity, and considered the Deep Adaptation agenda more realistic than the mainstream concept of sustainable development, which pretends we can have our capitalism cake and eat it. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiPH-sKSpiOfmdLv35a3rSh2wZvLfBI49QJXd7qh0dWIe_Mz1yj850w8YSO8P4-a8RM_NKQEkJiMcewIoXOAl_OwusrNXOBOLg2m3niGWic3XYBufeCFGZ35b6N_jsL3IdszFHwzHkXQle3lsB6D9yG0mggeBWV4GD5hxSahFhWRv5znHytOq1UtoxZQ=s600" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiPH-sKSpiOfmdLv35a3rSh2wZvLfBI49QJXd7qh0dWIe_Mz1yj850w8YSO8P4-a8RM_NKQEkJiMcewIoXOAl_OwusrNXOBOLg2m3niGWic3XYBufeCFGZ35b6N_jsL3IdszFHwzHkXQle3lsB6D9yG0mggeBWV4GD5hxSahFhWRv5znHytOq1UtoxZQ=s320" width="213" /></a></div></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In that </span><a href="https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/deep-adaptation-climate-chaos-and-radical-hope-joel-mowdy" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">review in World Literature Today</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, one criticism of the book is that it is academic and not that accessible to a wider audience. Edited by two academics, we are guilty as accused! Part of that wider accessibility, the reviewer said, would be to show ways that people can respond to their anticipation of societal breakdown, including as citizens and political actors. I think that is an important invitation for people in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deep Adaptation movement</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and anyone who no longer believes that we can maintain ‘Life as We Know It’ (in middle class urban societies), as environmental breakdown unfolds. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is clear that a few years since the start of the Deep Adaptation phenomenon, there is a bifurcation between people who want to focus on emotional support and those who want to connect that to attempting social change at scale. In its first 3 years, the work of the </span><a href="http://www.deepadaptation.info" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deep Adaptation Forum</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (DAF) has been mostly serving the former tendency, so that attempts at social change are undertaken by participants in the Forum through their various other social activism. Since last year, as an outsider, I have been </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deep-adaptation-adding-up-much-jem-bendell/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">encouraging the Forum to support more social activism</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, including more public advocacy on compassionate responses to societal disruptions and perceived vulnerabilities. I do that while knowing that any policy ideas, advocacy and activism can become a form of escapism, and repeat patterns of thought and behaviour that got us into this mess in the first place. Therefore, we need to maintain a focus on emotional processing when doing such work. That is why we began by exploring </span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/11/6280" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">new ways of engaging in dialogue</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the outset of the DAF. It would be a mistake to assume, as some </span><a href="https://jamesmeadway.substack.com/p/net-zero-sum-games?s=r" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">observers have done</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, that this emphasis on psychology is at the expense of political organising, or for participants in the DA movement to believe that focus should be </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">instead of</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> political organising. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is already clear is that an anticipation of societal collapse </span><a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/06/does-anticipating-societal-collapse.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">does not mean less social activism</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, or less radical critiques of how we arrived in this mess. In a public letter at the conclusion of the COP26 conference in Glasgow, over 200 scholars from around the world who anticipate societal disruption and collapse due to climate change, together </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop26-glasgow-academics-letter-read-b1955324.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">condemned the corporate capture of climate policy</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. With the co-editor of the Deep Adaptation book, Dr Rupert Read, we critiqued the corporate takeover of COP26 in an article for </span><a href="https://braveneweurope.com/rupert-read-jem-bendell-the-davosification-of-cop-why-capitalism-hasnt-got-climate-covered" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brave New Europe</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In our book itself, capitalism was mentioned 16 times as an unhelpful barrier to significant action on mitigation and adaptation. Since we finished that book, I have been researching what various policy ideas might make sense in a world that's increasingly disrupted by environmental and associated changes. To contrast with the corporate reformist agenda at COP26, I published a series of articles about a bolder policy agenda on both mitigation and adaptation (a </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/2021/11/04/this-is-what-a-realgreenrevolution-would-include/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#RealGreenRevolution</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). These included monetary reform, stock market reform, a global carbon tax, breaking up media and tech monopolies, nationalising food reserves, and a range of other necessary and obvious left-of-centre policy ideas.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although it's not surprising that such ideas do not appear in the corporate mainstream climate policy agenda, it is unfortunate that supposedly more left-wing or the more devoutly environmental publications and commentators have not been promoting similar ideas. Instead, I witness their policy proposals rely on technological salvation, better management of corporations and more intrusive controls on the general public. Whereas such proposals are sometimes accompanied by people posturing as true radicals, the contents of </span><a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341828/burnt/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">books like </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Burnt</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, show they are reformist, not revolutionary. I also witness some environmentalists continuing to pretend their demands are 'Beyond Politics' whereas without massive wealth redistribution, their ideas would have terrible impacts on the low income people in their countries. Such redistribution would require a huge amount of organising to win elections, despite mainstream media and bigtech being fundamentally opposed to any kind of economic radicalism. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unpacking One Critical Review</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perhaps the lack of a radical comprehensive programme, a sense of political impotence, and a fear of how bad things are becoming, all mix together to produce rather aggressive commentary on the Deep Adaptation book and movement from some commentators on the Left. I will examine one review in particular to highlight this phenomenon. In the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ecologist</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> magazine, a champion of the British Labour Party’s proposals for a Green New Deal to decarbonise the UK economy called the book many bad things, including </span><a href="https://theecologist.org/2022/feb/01/deep-adaptation-or-climate-justice" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">defeatist, anti-humanist, and primitivist</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Why such hostility? That is something I will come back to. But first, I want to address those three accusations. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The argument that to anticipate the collapse of industrial consumer societies is defeatist seems logical to some on the face-of-it. However, the wave of </span><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-30/our-power-comes-from-acting-without-escape-from-our-pain/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bold activism by people who believe it is too late</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to avert a catastrophe, and are trying to help societies change to reduce harm and provide more of a chance to each other and future generations, is empirical evidence that apathy is not the response by many people. The book describes a range of actions being undertaken, but perhaps we could have done more to show the global movement that it now is. For instance, the humanitarian action taken by people in the Deep Adaptation </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/2021/03/05/a-different-kind-of-hope-with-deepadaptation-in-southern-india/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">group in Southern India</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, or the efforts at local food production in Hungary. It is only defeatist if one only has one vision of victory, which is maintaining industrial consumer societies. Such a singular vision must ignore worrying interpretations of the latest environmental science, as well as ignore the ecological footprint of greening the economy in the way proposed by ideas like Labour’s proposed Green New Deal - a topic which deserves some serious attention before moving on to the subsequent criticisms in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ecologist</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s review. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2021, the UN’s International Energy Agency (IEA) calculated that a global energy transition off fossil fuels would increase demand for key minerals such as lithium, graphite, nickel and rare-earth metals by 4,200%, 2,500%, 1,900% and 700%, respectively, by 2040. The </span><a href="https://docs.wind-watch.org/IEA-Critical-Minerals.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IEA report noted</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that there is not the capacity to reach such demand, whereas there are no plans to build enough mines and refineries, and such expansion is unprecedented and would take decades. Therefore, it does not appear to be a solution available to the whole world. The report also noted that the environmental impacts of delivering that level of supply would be massive. Such environmental impacts include not only the devastation from earth removal, but also the toxic and radioactive wastes produced from the mining and refining processes. Worse still, an analysis of where those critical minerals are located, finds they are typically in locations full of people living outside of industrial consumer societies that want the metals from under them. Academics Christos Zografos and Paul Robbins therefore concluded in a study </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033222030542X" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published in the journal One Earth</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, that "A Green New Deal could put severe pressure on lands held by Indigenous and marginalized communities and reshape their ecologies into “green sacrifice zones.” Such cost shifting risks reproducing a form of climate colonialism in the name of just transition." For a Green New Deal to work to decarbonise any modern economy means that a country must maintain the unequal global relations that both generate its purchasing power in world markets and enable international corporations to destroy the lands of indigenous and marginalised peoples around the world. By pointing out these contradictions and the potential for new waves of ecological destruction from the capitalist’s fairytale that is a ‘Green New Deal’, one is being both realistic and expressing solidarity with vulnerable people, not being defeatist. In other words, it is not defeatist to wish to defend the lands of indigenous people against the corporations seeking profit from fueling the privileged and unsustainable lifestyles of people on the other side of the world.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the other claims in the book review deserves more detailed attention, partly because it led to some furore online, and a specific objection from some contributors to the book. That is the claim that the book and the movement are ‘primitivist.’ In his article Chris Saltmarsh says little about what he means by that term, other than it involves promoting learning from ‘idealised’ indigenous societies. I want to note right away that the book includes some authors who are women of colour and one chapter is co-written by a collective of indigenous scholars. As Skeena’s chapter on relocalisation was quoted as part of Chris’s argument, </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/2022/03/13/hoarding-green-righteousness-will-not-get-us-far-dialogue-will/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she spoke out against the use of such language</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There are deeply meaningful reasons why we would consciously refuse technologies of the west that are not about our ‘lack’ or “primitivism” but instead our abundance of mind, heart and spirit. When people of non-western and whiteness cultures resist the technologies of the west, often people racialised as white and people programmed in whiteness will use a kind of gaslighting of our ancient cultures – and will make an assumption that what we ‘need’ and want most is the so called ‘progress’ which in reality is often the mal-adaption of the west.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have since been told that Chris meant that the book had a theme of ‘anarcho-primitivism’ running throughout it. That made me visit </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wikipedia to find out what that is all about</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Apparently it is an “anarchist critique of civilization that advocates a return to non-civilized ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labour or specialization, and abandonment of large-scale organization and high technology”.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Deep Adaptation book does not advocate anarcho-primitivism. The book neither mentions the term nor cites the author who created and promotes the term - an American philosopher called John Zerzan. Instead, the book outlines how Deep Adaptation is an invitation for exploring what to do once we stop pretending we can reform and save industrial consumer societies. Therefore, as a framework, it does not advocate the active destruction of such societies. Conversely, the book includes advocacy of technologies, such as safe forms of geo-engineering like localised Marine Cloud Brightening that uses sea water, and the use of open source software to create local trading networks, ideas that are likely heresy for anarcho-primitivists. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book critiques both modernity, capitalism, and consumerism in various places. Although anarcho-primitivists do that, so do mainstream environmental groups, Christians, Buddhists, Sufis, and whole swathes of social and political thought, such as post-modernism. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book includes world leading Buddhist scholars, leadership scholars, and educational theorists. It is strange to me how these could all be regarded as closet anarcho-primitivists. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saltmarsh describes respect for indigenous cultures by Pablo Servigne and colleagues as "promoting an imagined primitive mode of social organisation" and manages to cover over any prejudice by criticising Servigne and friends for not discussing Indigneous struggles. Yet that chapter mentions how “Indigenous communities have been experiencing collapses for centuries..." Chris writes in his review there is a lack of solidarity with indigenous people in a book which has a chapter co-authored by a </span><a href="https://decolonialfutures.net/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">collective of indigenous scholars and activists</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Moreover, that chapter explicitly critiques Western responses to bad climate news that use stories of returning to a pre-modern idyll, which they label as a "romantic" form of denial. In other words, in a chapter written by indigenous scholars in the book, the way Western people might be attracted to anarcho-primitivism is critiqued. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite claiming that is what he meant by the term primitivism, Chris does not mention anarcho-primitivism in his book review. If he had, then people with an interest in anarcho-primitivism might have paid attention, and been disappointed not to find any of that in the Deep Adaptation book. Instead, Chris appears to use the term 'primitivism' and 'primitive' in his article as a negative label, rather than as a label for a political ideology. Therefore, I share the concern of my colleagues about such forms of writing in a key environmental publication in 2022. It should not need to be women of colour or indigenous scholars who call out white writers and editors for their use of racially insensitive language. As Skeena’s co-author, Matthew Slater said in his </span><a href="https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/how-not-to-build-a-movement-as-demonstrated-by-chris-saltmarsh" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rather fruity public letter to Chris</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Given that you, me and the editor of The Ecologist are all white men, we should listen to how such statements come across to people unlike us.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It would be unfortunate if what is actually happening here is the reviewer avoiding accountability for his pejorative use of the term of primitivism, by invoking - post hoc - a marginal political theoretical idea that not only is not present in the book, but the sentiment of which was actually criticised in that book.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The casual use of negative labels is something that can have real world consequences. In Brazil the current political establishment has a diabolical attitude towards the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. They are struggling against rapacious capitalism, including that which fuels the demand for precious metals for the technologies of the modern world, as I described above. Would someone trying to stop a bulldozer trashing a tropical forest to access the critical mineral to drive Green New Deals in the West be labelled anarcho-primitivist? Or only if they mention that they critique the values of modernity and consumerism that underpin the violence of that bulldozer? Perhaps for some people, anyone that gets in the way of the possible techno-salvation of industrial consumer societies is worthy of any negative label that might stick? </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which brings us to the claim by Mr Saltmarsh that we are ‘anti-humanists’. He does that by quoting me and the co-founder of the Climate Psychology Alliance, Adrian Tait, out of context, to suggest we simply blame the human race for the mess the planet is in, rather than recognising the role of capitalism in driving the predicament. But in his chapter Adrian writes: “The economics of plunder and incursion has fed a set of myths and assumptions – for instance the notion that it is fine to externalise costs - to dump them into the global commons. These myths and assumptions are denial systemically enshrined; they blind us to the situation or encourage us to accept it as inevitable.” That sounds like a critique of the economic system. If he missed it, then this statement in the book’s introduction was clear enough: “The deep adaptation perspective sees the pace and scale of dangerous levels of climate change and ecological degradation to be so fast that neither a reform of capitalism or of modern society is realistic.” In sixteen other places in the book there is a criticism of capitalism as a driver of the predicament we are in. However, in every instance, as with Adrian, we go deeper, beneath capitalism, and critique industrialism and consumerism as well. Perhaps that is our real ‘sin’ for the reformist Left in the West - we are too critical of capitalism, including of the systems that prop-up the vested interests who pay their wages. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maintaining Our Faith in Each other During Disruption and Breakdown</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is disappointing that this question about the reasons for the predicament is so badly addressed in a review in a serious publication like </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ecologist</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I see nothing in the article from Chris to suggest he was engaging in philosophical debate about the nature of humanism, and instead was simply implying we have a misanthropic, negative, view of human nature. What Chris and other critics do not recognise is that Deep Adapters are the people who argue against any negativity towards human nature within the ever-wider field of collapse anticipation. We recognise that some people who realise everything is falling apart and the environment has been destroyed can, in their grief and anger, arrive at a form of misanthropy. They can adopt a disdainful attitude towards our own species. That is an important issue to raise and discuss: to recognise the pain from which that attitude arises and then explore why we can choose to have a faith in humanity after all. Part of that process is to recognise what went wrong, and to see how people have been manipulated - and subjugated - by systems that served power. In my past writings I have gone further than Saltmarsh - I have argued that if environmentalists do not have a deeper critique of the oppressive systems that have manipulated and exploited us to harm each other and nature, then we may end up with a </span><a href="https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/ata/issue/view/17" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">misanthropic view which sees humans as having created this mess because of human nature</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and that we need strict controls on our behaviour for our own good. Although I have mentioned this issue a lot in the past, it doesn't seem to ‘cut through’. It is probably because I have avoided naming names and using the F word. So I will try to be clearer here… </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the environmental movement doesnt centre itself on a capitalist critique, it will become misanthropic and degrade into ecofascism when situations become really difficult. If the Left in the global North does not recognise it has inadvertently adopted the </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318665125_Beyond_Unsustainable_Leadership_Critical_Social_Theory_for_Sustainable_Leadership" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">misanthropic assumptions of managerialism</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, whereby people must be given stricter rules by expert elites, then it will also descend into ecofascism. And if the lot of us don’t recognise the assumptions and values of modernity that also underpin this mess, we won't be able to find agendas and narratives suited to an era of things getting materially more challenging for generations to come. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I won’t bore you with more debunking of the other criticisms in either Saltmarsh’s review or others from the British left. Instead, what is a more positive way of responding? It is to realise that all of us, including these critics of Deep Adaptation, are afraid. </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/2019/11/03/hope-in-a-time-of-climate-chaos-a-speech-to-psychotherapists/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When afraid, it is normal to lash out</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Therefore we can help each other to notice when that is happening through our frantic intellectual story-telling. In the case of some of these commentators from the British left, it might be their anxiety that is motivating them to delegitimize anyone who undermines their current story of salvation from this tragedy. Deep Adapters might therefore be seen as more of an enemy to them than the powers-that-be, as a story of salvation is what keeps them going, for now.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recentering Freedom in a Politics for the Polycrisis Era</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The negativity coming from some commentators on the British left is particularly odd for me, given my previous </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/11/bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn-labour-for-the-many" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work with the Labour leader’s office</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> during the General Election of 2017, when we managed to transform the country’s impression of Jeremy Corbyn and remove the government’s majority. The lack of wisdom and radicalism in the criticisms has helped me to see that there is an urgent need for a radical left agenda for an era of climate breakdown. That means going back to first principles. For me, the Left is about collective emancipation from systematic oppression, with an emphasis on people with less power organising together to achieve more. Such systematic oppression involves economic structures, as well as cultural norms associated with gender, ethnicity and class. Therefore, both freedom and fairness are foundational to Leftwing politics, despite the horrors of past decades when the Left became totalitarian, and the more recent decades where the Left in many countries has lost its confidence about its emancipatory character. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Such is the loss of focus on collective emancipation in contemporary mainstream Leftist discourse, when I discuss this topic with people in the West they are often surprised. Reclaiming the idea of freedom as part of the narrative of the Left was why, as communications strategist, I proposed the 2017 UK General Election campaign of the Labour Party use a narrative of freeing people from ‘</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/11/bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn-labour-for-the-many" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">being held back</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’ by the effects of the extreme inequality enabled by government policies. When discussing that, often the focus turns to what ‘freedom’ today means for the Left. So, in concluding, I would like to get a bit philosophical…</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For me, freedom describes the elusive capability for people to continually re-discover and pursue personal preferences with an awareness of how that pursuit arises from, relates to and impacts, others and nature. That capability is influenced by personal, relational, societal and environmental contexts. Ultimately freedom must include a personal preference to cultivate one’s ability to comprehend how the process of preference-formation arises from attachment to stories of reality and to fears of many kinds, including a fear of suffering and death. It must also include a freedom from the potential tyranny of concepts, by realising that ‘freedom’ is merely a concept pointing in a general direction, and there is no singular and precise phenomenon in reality that constitutes ‘freedom’. A belief in emancipating people stems from a belief in our innate potential to do what is right for ourselves, each other and nature if we are not manipulated, incentivised or forced into destructive behaviours. That means the first instinct of a truly freedom-loving left winger is to identify the impediments to people naturally doing what is of mutual interest. Sadly, many of the commentators and leaders within the Leftwing of politics across the West appear to have forgotten that faith in people, as their ideas are infected by managerialist attitudes that regard the rest of us as needing more oppressive controls on our thoughts and behaviours. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deliberation on the topic of emancipatory politics during societal breakdown is not something that should be led by me, my friends, or the wider British left. It needs far broader participation from people around the world, many of whom have experienced disruptions in recent memory, and who are less emotionally and economically invested in industrial consumer societies. Where might such a deliberation take place? Perhaps the World Social Forum, which brings together explicitly anti-capitalist civil society organisations from around the world could be a venue for a year long ‘Assembly on Emancipatory Politics for an Era of Polycrisis’. To explore that possibility, some Deep Adapters and signatories to the Scholars Warning will be participating in the </span><a href="https://wsf2022.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 World Social Forum</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I look forward to hearing what creative ideas emerge, on both emancipatory policies and praxis in a time of polycrisis.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At some point, I hope that some of the current critics of Deep Adaptation, and anyone who has been misinformed by them, will help grow this emancipatory politics during societal disruption and breakdown. So I end with reflection with words of Skeena, a member of the Holding Group of the Deep Adaptation Forum:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 21pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Let’s become free together. Let’s become safe together and maybe even find our flourishing together, for the very future of humanity and its cousins in the great web of life are depending on this work. Togetherness and the reunion of the whole human family is the only way – the true acceptance of our many ways of being. I call this work – Co Liberation. Come Chris Saltmarsh and friends, come around the fire, let us swap our stories of these ways of being and becoming, let us heal the wounds and tears this paradigm and system has inflicted on us. Let’s make kinship, let’s belong together and let’s love who we are and what we have left.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have written, or intend to write, a review of the book then please share it in the </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12091253/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deep Adaptation Leadership Group on LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. That is also where you can discuss with others the issues covered in this essay. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thx for reading, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor Jem Bendell</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Useful Links:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://eepurl.com/gjtFJH" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Deep Adaptation Quarterly</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> takes a global justice perspective on the matter of societal disruption and collapse.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Download a </span><a href="https://1drv.ms/b/s!AsCbAv6NZ38UgvdBHCyardeJFwe_UA?e=yqh124" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PDF of the chapter</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Skeena Rathor and Matthew Slater</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listen to the </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/introduction-to-deep-adaptation-book-jem-bendell-and-rupert-read" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">audio of the introduction</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the Deep Adaptation book </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My course on radical post-managerialist approaches to leadership and social change happens </span><a href="https://store.cumbria.ac.uk/product-catalogue/general/short-courses/sustainable-leadership-2022" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">once a year in the Lake District in the UK</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-2243757811628552742022-02-17T03:58:00.002-08:002022-02-17T03:58:48.491-08:00Cross-sector Collaboration: developing skills to futureproof your career<p>by Julie Hutchison, Teaching
Associate, University of Cumbria, Ambleside</p><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.5pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Interesting content, delivered well, mix of activities,
responsive facilitation/lectures, great classmates. Thank you.” (2021 student)<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After the challenges of the last two years, you might be
looking for an injection of something new into your plans for 2022. Today’s working patterns and careers are far
less linear than in the past. The
knowledge and skills many of us initially learned one, two or three decades ago
just aren’t enough to set us up for the future. A common thread in many lines of work is the
need to operate across boundaries in shared projects. Cross-sector collaboration, partnership
working, stakeholder engagement – these are all terms you might come across,
but what’s actually involved? How can
these ways of working be done well, and what can be learned from case studies
and the experience of others?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Cumbria’s post-graduate level ‘Strategic
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement’ course reflects on the spectrum of
relationships that we have in different contexts, and the language and
practices around them. You explore the
lifecycle of partnerships and take on a practical task of writing a short
partnership agreement. Case studies of
successful and failed partnerships are reflected upon. Negotiation skills are put into use. The private, public, academic and voluntary
sectors are all considered in the context of cross-sector collaboration and
partnership working. This all takes
place over three days on campus in Ambleside, within a UNESCO World Heritage
site, which provides a great setting for exploring both the theories and
practices connected to these concepts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even pre-COVID, the course involved an online element, with
an initial welcome and induction webinar prior to the on-campus element. In 2022, the introductory webinar on 4 May will
be followed by three days on the Ambleside campus from 18-20 May. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you’re looking to immerse yourself in a new environment,
to be part of a supportive learning experience and to build new skills in
cross-sector collaboration and partnership working, this short course could be
for you. The course blends concepts, tools,
and practices, with the opportunity to learn from others:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“I feel the group work was really useful. Outside
opinions and simplifying your own work to explain to others was very revealing.
Gave me a lot to think about.” (2021 Student)<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">More information about the course ‘Strategic Collaboration
and Stakeholder Engagement’ and how to apply can be found <a href="https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/business/strategic-collaboration-and-stakeholder-engagement/">here</a>.
You may also wish to contact the course leader directly: <a href="mailto:david.murphy@cumbria.ac.uk">david.murphy@cumbria.ac.uk</a></span>iflashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677703835700306129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-38996043419132923032021-11-11T04:14:00.004-08:002021-11-12T00:40:10.122-08:00Hot Air from Glasgow Means it's Time for Radical Leadership - say over 200 scholars<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Over 200 academics from around the
world have criticised the ‘corporate-capture’ of the Glasgow climate summit and
are calling for a Real Green Revolution to soften the breakdown of
societies. After the UNFCCC COP26 <a href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/Overarching_decision_1-CP-26.pdf" target="_blank">Draft Overarching Decision</a> was released, they signed a public letter. </span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>The full
list of signatories from more than 30 countries follows below.</i> </span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Follow reaction via: </span></i><a href="http://twitter.com/scholarswarning"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">http://twitter.com/scholarswarning</span></i></a><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></i><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The letter is titled: ‘</span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">An International
Scholars’ Warning on the Corporate-Capture of the Climate Agenda and Need for a
Real Green Revolution’</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> and <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop26-glasgow-academics-letter-read-b1955324.html" target="_blank">appears in <i>The Independent</i></a> newspaper:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Earlier this year, the official international </span><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097362"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">summary of climate science</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> announced we face increasing disasters
and disruptions, with the most vulnerable suffering the most and soonest. A </span><a href="https://scientistrebellion.com/we-leaked-the-upcoming-ipcc-report/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">leaked report</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> from the same UN process identified
the need for a transformation in our economic systems for a meaningful attempt
to limit loss and damage.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Yet at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, no plan for a justice-based
economic transformation was launched. Worse, voluntary business commitments
distracted from the economic policies necessary to reduce atmospheric carbon
and prepare for worsening disruption. That is despite decades of voluntary
initiatives </span><a href="https://www.environmentalleader.com/2017/01/98-companies-not-achieve-sustainability-goals/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">not delivering</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> significant impacts on the climate. It
is both unscientific and unethical to deny that our economic system is </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/climate-change-capitalism-and-corporations/9FD46E7FF5F9FE71508831A23D43DEE0"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">at fault</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, so must be transformed to reduce
climate risk and adapt to the difficulties. To ignore that reality, plans are
afoot to waste huge sums of money on energy-hungry yet atmospherically
insignificant </span><a href="https://medium.com/lobbywatch/carbon-capture-keeps-proving-its-critics-right-what-comes-next-32ac9750a7aa"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">carbon capture machines</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Political leaders could instead level with their populations about
necessary changes in industries and lifestyles. Respecting climate justice,
they could take immediate steps to reduce inequality both nationally and
globally – key for any changes in livelihoods to be fair and lasting.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">We are hundreds of scholars from dozens of countries, who are grieving
the situation but determined not to ignore it. We believe that the corporate
capture and failure of COP26 clearly show that people in communities and
organisations must now lead our own emergency response. That includes
coordinated radical policy advocacy from outside of a corporate-driven system,
for a </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/2021/11/04/this-is-what-a-realgreenrevolution-would-include/"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Real Green Revolution</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> that will significantly reduce and
drawdown emissions, regenerate nature and help us adapt. It also includes
growing community-led </span><a href="https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509546831"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Deep Adaptation</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> efforts independently of governments
and transnational corporations.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The hot air from Glasgow means it's time for more honest and radical
leadership. We must call out the fantasy that dangerous global heating will not
get worse or that the largest corporations will come to our rescue. When we
escape such delusion, we can contribute to a different way forward - one we
hope governments will join when they escape the constraints of
business-as-usual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Sample signatories: Dr. Malika Virah-Sawmy, IAAS-Potsdam, Germany and
Mauritius</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">; </span></i><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Professor Dr. Jem Bendell, University of Cumbia and co-editor Deep
Adaptation, UK; Dr. Yves Cochet, Former Minister of the Environment, France,
Institut Momentum, France; Professor Eva Lantsoght, Professor, Universidad San
Francisco de Quito, Ecuador</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">; </span></i><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Professor William Rees, Professor Emeritus Ecological Economics,
University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr. Aurelien Barrau, Professor of
Astrophysics, Universite Grenoble-Alpes, France;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>James Engell, Professor, Harvard University Center for the Environment, US; P</i></span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">rofessor Yin Paradies, Professor of
Race Relations, Deakin University, Australia; Dr. Rupert Read, University of
East Anglia, UK; Dr. Igor Polskiy, board member, GEN-Russia, Russia;</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></i><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Carola Kloeck, Assistant professor,
Sciences Po Paris, France</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">; </span></i><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Lajos Brons, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Lakeland University
Japan; Dr. Morgan Phillips, Director, The Glacier Trust, UK.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><b><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Meet the signatories</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr Malika Virah Sawmy is from Mauritius, and for a decade worked on
sustainable development in Africa, with WWF, UNDP and others. Now she is on the
board of the <a href="http://www.deepadaptation.info" target="_blank">Deep Adaptation Forum</a>, which focuses on collapse readiness. She
hosted an emotions sharing space within the blue zone at COP26: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">"I grieve that neither the climate revolution nor the participation
revolution will happen in the intergovernmental sphere. At a time of
crisis, I am in pain that COP26 is being felt by the global South as the
least inclusive COP. A 21 year old Latvian shared her wisdom with
me at COP26. " I see that we cannot change decision making here (at
COP26)", she said, "but we can escape the delusion that they will do
it for us. We can return to our communities open eyed and contribute from the
ground to a new climate revolution".</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Professor Jem Bendell teaches a </span><a href="https://store.cumbria.ac.uk/product-catalogue/general/short-courses/sustainable-leadership-2022"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">sustainable leadership course</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> at the University of Cumbria and has
over 100 publications on the topic of corporate sustainability. He led the team
that drafted the letter:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>“For decades, since 1995, I promoted voluntary corporate alliances for
sustainability. Today it’s concerning to see them used as an excuse for
government inaction on the kind of economic transformation needed to save lives
as our climate goes crazy. Those of us who have experience in corporate
sustainability and responsible finance know that despite decades of effort it
has not significantly reduced the destruction of our planetary home. Those
efforts could only ever be a complement to bold government action to redesign
the basics of our economy, including banking and corporate law.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Professor Bendell is now the publisher of the </span><a href="http://eepurl.com/gjtFJH"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Deep
Adaptation Quarterly</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, which explores readying for societal disruption and collapse. He
continues:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>"I think it is time my colleagues in the corporate sustainability
field say publicly what they know privately. Which is that our economic system
is at fault for the climate and ecological crisis, and whereas voluntary
responses won't transform everything sufficiently, they can distract us from
challenging power. Let's not be complicit in the lie that survival through
reform is possible. Executives can keep improving their organisations, but not
pretend that's the answer to our predicament. Instead, we can join efforts
towards a Real Green Revolution. We can then open up to learning what kept us
so cautious for so long and learn from the people and knowledge we previously
ignored."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VU5Wi1-wl4gzTCZd1KbKpfe1y5AvQQF0eN4QFFtPAo2-NkBd3wZqER6TI2-1tXuQNUPFMAr_O_gSyQXLZlM-e7xGJWMgnioNmBhMnK_6if2_QvZ63Z8H-kqDqBHv9SiZEvzwW43BcrNP/s1253/malika+at+cop26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1253" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VU5Wi1-wl4gzTCZd1KbKpfe1y5AvQQF0eN4QFFtPAo2-NkBd3wZqER6TI2-1tXuQNUPFMAr_O_gSyQXLZlM-e7xGJWMgnioNmBhMnK_6if2_QvZ63Z8H-kqDqBHv9SiZEvzwW43BcrNP/s320/malika+at+cop26.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Virah-Sawmy at COP26, third from left, with colleagues after facilitating Deep
Adaptation sessions for delegates. Free of copyright or credits. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm;"><b><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Full list of signatories in alphabetical order</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">'The International Scholars Warning on
the Corporate-Capture of the Climate Agenda and Need for a Real Green
Revolution'</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> is a public letter
released on Friday November 12th 2021. <span style="background: white;">All the
following persons have PhDs or professional doctorates. Their institutional
affiliation is shown for information only, as they all signed in a personal
capacity. The letter is now closed to new signatures. If you have a doctorate
you can consider signing the ‘International Scholars Warning on Societal
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overflow: hidden; padding: 1pt 1pt 5pt; vertical-align: bottom;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-45457ff3-7fff-46e7-2460-cf72db0d3298"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ruth Wallen, Co-Chair MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, US</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Arthur Weaver, independent scientist, no affiliation, US</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 20.75pt;"><td style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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<p> </p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-54469988130506997662021-10-06T17:23:00.000-07:002021-10-06T17:23:02.682-07:00Adaptation Delayism - preventing urgently needed dialogue and initiative<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>This is an excerpt from a new article in a peer-reviewed psychological studies journal that is published by a professional organization of psychotherapists. The excerpt provides critical analysis of some of the most widely cited criticisms of so-called 'doomism' that have been made by research groups led by non-specialists in psychology. </i></span></p><p class="Atanormal1"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Psychotherapists
and psychologists have a useful role to play in helping scholars explore how
their inner worlds are affecting their contributions to the fields of climate
research and policy. It should be uncontroversial to state that emotions play a
key role in the shaping of scientific study, from the development of questions,
means of analysis, discovering insights, and deciding what to communicate and
how (Thagard, 2002). However, the idea that researchers are like machines, or
aspire to be, is still widely promoted. Such a claim to objectivity is
problematic for many reasons, with one reason being that it means institutions
of scholarship do not help their professionals develop greater self-awareness
so that greater wisdom might emerge. Without attention to how our inner worlds
shape our research, analysis, and communication choices, patterns of experiential
avoidance in the emotionally distressing field of climate scholarship might be
distorting the quality of academic activities. Rather than allow difficult
emotions of fear, sadness, shame and anger, instead the suppression of them may
mean that they unconsciously drive the academic process in some scholars. That
could lead to them projecting their inner worlds onto others, as well as
projecting blame onto them. The existence of people who are openly sharing
their views on worst case scenarios and their painful emotions about that could
be regarded, consciously or (most likely) not, by some observers as threatening
their own coping mechanisms as persons either experientially avoidant or at
risk of depression. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Atanormal2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Most academic
research papers on climate issues claim objectivity and suggest an absence of
emotional drivers for their work. That is even the case for most papers in the
social sciences. A close look at one paper will reveal how this approach could
be enabling experientially avoidance amongst researchers, and unhelpful
aggression towards people in society being described by such research. I choose
the paper “Discourses of Climate Delay” (Lamb et al, 2020) as it was widely
promoted amongst both scholars and commentators and is cited as a key text for
claiming there is something called “doomism” which is described as bad. It
reported that “we derive our initial list of discourses from an expert
elicitation of the study co-authors”, which is a complicated way of saying the
co-authors created their categories of discourse by conversations amongst
themselves rather than analysing texts using any methods of discourse analysis.
There is no evidence in this paper of any knowledge of discourse analysis
methods, let alone critical discourse analysis, which would be appropriate for
an attempt to explain influence of discourses on power i.e. policy agendas and
decisions (Gee and Handford, 2013; Bendell et al, 2017). From a theoretical
basis of using the term ‘discourse’ simply as a way of talking, rather than a
huge field of sociological theory and research, and an empirical basis of
discussing together what they want to criticise, this is what the authors wrote
about what they describe as “doomism”:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Ataquote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>"Doomism further argues that any actions we take are too little, too
late. Catastrophic climate change is already locked-in: “The climate apocalypse
is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it” (New
Yorker opinion article). Such statements evoke fear and can result in a
paralysing state of shock and resignation (Hulme, 2019). This discourse implies
that mitigation is futile and suggests that the only possible response is
adaptation – or in religious versions, by trusting our fate to “God’s hands”.
As with many other discourses of delay, the surrender category does not favour
the difficult work of building climate engagement and deliberating over
effective solutions. (p.4-5)"</i></span></p><p class="Ataquote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The only data
they use to highlight “doomism” is one article in the New Yorker. They only
reference one academic study for the claim of a “paralysing” effect (Hulme,
2019), which was not from psychology or psychotherapy, thereby ignoring a whole
discipline. That academic study revealed no references in it to any of the
fields that guide the analysis of discourse e.g. cognitive linguistics,
narratology, discourse analysis, or critical discourse analysis. The problem
with this atheoretical approach to discourse on climate is that they might
inadvertently block a deeper consideration of the topics addressed. A short
analysis of their statements about “doomism” in the diagram that is contained
in the paper reveals the ideological assumptions that produce their claims and
limit imagination.</span></p><p class="Atanormal2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The paper states
that “doomism” implies: “Any mitigation actions we take are too little, too
late.” (p.2) They offer no clarification on what it is too late for. Many
climate activists today, such as those in XR and Deep Adaptation, claim that it
is too late for industrial consumer society, too late for reformism, too late
for incremental change, and too late for imagining that people will escape
further and massive loss and damage in the near future. Some people are also
arguing it is too late for the ideology that underpinned the destruction and
has failed to inform significant change (Bendell and Carr, 2021). Just because
it is too late for certain objectives does not mean it is too late for seeking
to do anything. To not look closely at this issue might suggest an
unwillingness to imagine anything beyond modernity and the progress of
technological consumer society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Atanormal2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The paper next
states that “doomism” implies: “Catastrophic climate change is already locked
in.” (p.2) That is a widespread view amongst many scientists and it is already
happening for many people other than the authors of this paper. The paper then
states that “doomism” implies: “We should adapt, or accept our fate in the
hands of God or nature.” (p.2) Here they
imply that adaptation is inactive, and against seeking emissions reductions and
drawdown, despite the evidence that people are working on this whole agenda.
Accepting one’s fate is assumed to be demotivating by these authors, despite
there being a lot of research and current data to show the opposite – that a
realisation of mortality and a relinquishment of certainty of impact or outcome
can inspire courage and boldness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="Atanormal2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">By vilifying
people who are seeking to integrate worst-case scenarios of climate change into
their outlook and decisions, some scholars and commentators risk distracting
society from a deeper focus on adaptation. That could constitute a form of
‘Adaptation Delayism’ that leaves the field of collapse risk, readiness and
response to agencies and elites beyond the view, or potential influence, of an
engaged civil society. To help address this problem, psychologists and
psychotherapists could engage with scholars who are making such mistakes in
their assumptions about human psychology, so that delays in engagement with
adaptation are not further encouraged. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The references for this section are found in the full article, by Professor Jem Bendell, which is available for free <a href="https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/ata/article/view/187" target="_blank">download</a> and as an <a href="https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/jem-bendell-psychological-insights-on-discussing-societal-disruption-and-collapse" target="_blank">audio recording</a>. It has been discussed in articles by leading figures in Extinction Rebellion (<a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-10-06/its-meant-to-hurt-allowing-our-feelings-on-climate-will-promote-action-and-reduce-conflict/" target="_blank">Skeena Rathor</a> and <a href="https://andmed.medium.com/contemplating-collapse-should-we-speak-about-it-more-and-if-so-how-b835e32cd13c" target="_blank">Andrew Medhurst</a>). </i></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d05f62b1-7fff-c7b7-7538-c1450f1ea597"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Full reference:</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bendell, J. (2021). Psychological <span class="il">insights</span> on discussing societal disruption and collapse., Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand, 25 (1), 45–63. </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2021.05&source=gmail&ust=1633652004055000&usg=AFQjCNHDpM0a4k8l_kA8qvP4fSxFEG9EPA" href="https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2021.05" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.9791/<wbr></wbr>ajpanz.2021.05</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEbQ18mmo3lPVJwS6aLhcIxNXBsx5WpyEEUqAicEj4cy5W3DryLQM6WwThRvCH6elrrYbcmVuI7Nc9mlhDKUPKY2ampZ82kSAj3X0EtL5EJgq7cv-pr74Na_FL4lP9J37ktx1ouI8Rm17S/s1971/cover_issue_17_en_US.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1971" data-original-width="1376" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEbQ18mmo3lPVJwS6aLhcIxNXBsx5WpyEEUqAicEj4cy5W3DryLQM6WwThRvCH6elrrYbcmVuI7Nc9mlhDKUPKY2ampZ82kSAj3X0EtL5EJgq7cv-pr74Na_FL4lP9J37ktx1ouI8Rm17S/s320/cover_issue_17_en_US.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></span>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-19235948441230030402021-06-01T07:42:00.001-07:002021-06-01T23:35:50.761-07:00Cross-sector Collaboration and Partnership Working: Skills to futureproof your career<p> </p><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.5pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><b>Julie Hutchison, Specialist
Lecturer, University of Cumbria</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In looking at how to approach the ‘problems without
passports’ that we now face, the knowledge and skills many of us learned a long
time ago just aren’t enough to set us up for the future. Today’s working
patterns and careers are far less linear than in the past. As you navigate your own decisions about the
type of work and roles which interest you, you might like to consider an
additional source of support during moments of transition: the support which
comes from meeting new people, and investing time in thinking about new ideas,
in a supportive learning environment.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">A common thread in many lines of work is the need to operate
across boundaries in shared projects.
Cross-sector collaboration, partnership working, community engagement –
these are all terms you might come across, but what’s involved? How can these things be done well, and what
can be learned from case studies and the experience of others?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The University of Cumbria offers a post-graduate course
which looks at Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement. It reflects on the spectrum of relationships
you may encounter, and the language and practices around them. You will explore the lifecycle of
partnerships and take on a practical task of reviewing and/or writing a short partnership
agreement. Case studies of successful
and failed partnerships are explored and reflected upon. Negotiation skills are put into use. The private, public, academic and charity
sectors are all considered in the context of cross-sector collaboration and
partnership working. This all takes
place on our Ambleside campus, within a UNESCO World Heritage site and this provides
a great setting for exploring both the theory and practice connected to these
concepts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Even pre-COVID, the course involved an online element, with
an initial welcome and induction webinar prior to the on-campus element. In 2021, we look forward to a return to the
three-day residential on site in Ambleside, from 19<sup> </sup>to 21 July.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you’re looking to immerse yourself in a new environment,
to be part of a supportive learning environment and to build new skills in
cross-sector collaboration and partnership working, this short course could be
for you. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">More information about the Strategic Partnerships and
Community Engagement short course can be found <a href="https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/strategic-partnerships-and-community-engagement/">here</a>
and you can book one of the few remaining places via this link: <a href="https://store.cumbria.ac.uk/product-catalogue/general/short-courses/strategic-partnerships-and-community-engagement-2021">https://store.cumbria.ac.uk/product-catalogue/general/short-courses/strategic-partnerships-and-community-engagement-2021</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>iflashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677703835700306129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-64853486730107514632021-03-24T21:45:00.003-07:002021-03-26T03:41:07.572-07:00Monetary adaptation to planetary emergency: new paper addresses the monetary growth imperative<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There is no way out of our Covid debts with the current monetary system, unless we speed up our consumption and destruction of ecosystems which then increases the risk of future pandemics. It's a debt catch-22 that we will only escape with monetary reform. The deaf ears of politicians on this matter is why some people think a Money Rebellion has become necessary,”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> explains co-author Professor Jem Bendell, University of Cumbria. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ce35f17-7fff-5921-3c09-310b2648bb57"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This new research paper “</span><a href="http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5993/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monetary Adaptation to Planetary Emergency</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” joins the debate about what can be done about the massive Covid-related public debts. It argues that there is no way out of this debt situation that won't make future pandemics more likely, unless there is monetary reform. The authors argue that neither more GDP growth nor more borrowing is the solution to unprecedented levels of debt. Instead, the role of government treasuries, central banks and banks must now change.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, money is created by private banks when they issue loans. This paper argues that such a system means that our economies are forced to expand, whether or not a population wants that. Such a Monetary Growth Imperative arising from the unique privilege of private banks issuing money is now untenable due to both climate change and evidence that environmental damage generates pandemic risk.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The paper notes the increasing likelihood of disruptions to economic systems from the direct and indirect impacts of environmental change means that the current monetary system is neither resilient nor helping humanity become more resilient.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For twenty years, and with little influence, some environmental economists argued that the way money is issued into circulation forces the economy to grow, and that only fundamental monetary reform could change that. But over the last decade some economists influential in environmental policy communities, including the field of degrowth (and postgrowth), have argued that capitalism without growth is theoretically possible. This paper shows, in simple terms, they were mistaken to conclude that, and it makes the case again for systemic changes to our monetary systems.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Therefore, the authors show how even green-tinged economists have been misinforming both activists and policy makers. The paper suggests that as members of the establishment, academics often have a bias towards questions, conclusions and narratives which will be acceptable to power. As an economist, sociologist and community activist, the three authors call on the economics profession to look again at the way the banking systems force our economies to expand in order to avoid disruption to businesses, jobs and financial assets. They argue that no criticism of capitalism is coherent nor a credible basis for alternatives unless it addresses the Monetary Growth Imperative. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The world is in an unprecedented mess. This means, among other things, that economists should question their assumptions, or risk becoming outdated and toxic. The money system is a major, often overlooked driver of economic behaviour, and it needs urgent reform. It's time for a radical overhaul,"</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> explains co-author Professor Christian Arnsperger, University of Lausanne. . </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is the first academic paper that directly challenges economists in the environmental field to stop being anti-radical in their assessment of the need for monetary reform.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Despite recent academic doubts, the current monetary system requires that economies must expand in order for the money supply to be sufficient to service debts. That means there must be wholesale monetary reform to reduce the destructive pressure on the environment and give space for communities and societies to try to adapt,”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> explains co-author Matthew Slater, Community Forge. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The authors conclude that if they are issued in responsible ways that protect privacy and rights, then Central Bank Digital Currencies are one policy option to help countries to escape the Covid debt catch-22. “At least the rise of crypto currencies has been an innovative disruption which is propelling some central banks to shift into the 21st century” said Professor Bendell, who ten years ago predicted that Facebook would launch a currency one day, and described Bitcoin as making people rich, in </span><a href="https://youtu.be/X5uGLbV5zVo" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his TEDx speech</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on the need for monetary innovation and reform. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The paper also provides backing for a novel approach to monetary policy where governments would enable the widespread use of different currencies for accumulation and for circulation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How will these ideas get any traction within the field of economics? Perhaps the climate crisis will be the trigger. Looking at the climate movement, Professor Bendell explains that: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Many campaigners and policy makers claim that we now need system change because of the climate crisis. They can be forgiven for not knowing how that must involve changing the monetary system, as the topics of money and banking have been made opaque by many economists. So let’s simplify the matter this way. The current money system means that humanity is being forced to expand our consumption and destruction of the natural world, threatening life on Earth. Therefore you would not be credible to call for bold action on climate if you are not calling for deep changes in banking. So while it might be fashionable in some circles to say neoliberalism is over or that capitalism is broken, unless you get specific on the brokenness of the monetary system and what must change, then you aren’t coherent. The burning forests, flooding cities and failing harvests tell us that we are out of time for pussy footing on deep changes to banking and monetary systems ” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The paper can be downloaded </span><a href="http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5993/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A recording of a webinar with the authors will become available </span><a href="https://deepadaptation.ning.com/events/monetary-adaptation-to-climate-change-q-a-with-jem-bendell-matthe" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Share news on this paper and topic with the hashtags <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23monetaryadaptation&src=typed_query" target="_blank">#monetaryadaptation</a> and #adaptingmoney</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are working on this, then consider the <a href="https://deepadaptation.ning.com/groups/business-finance" target="_blank">Business and Finance discussion group</a> of the Deep Adaptation Forum. In addition the global Scholars Warning initiative have a discussion thread on economics within its community. if you have a doctorate, you cab consider signing the letter and joining the initiative <a href="http://scholarswarning.net/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A previous Occasional Paper from IFLAS explored more <a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2019/11/financing-local-government-climate.html" target="_blank">local level currency innovation</a> to generate more community resilience to external shocks. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzaN1nZrx7cGSnfHREP0ArXzrW8_PbF-t9G3GaJaGYXA2NvyBYKRy4TDd3ceYkxyQo-Bl8Kxosb7nX-BewDAnoMP_8i1n4n53tIyrrwgj_rBIpj03Bv2JwC62xR8tZFRv2NURYDvk7fLQ/s960/money-4902545_960_720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzaN1nZrx7cGSnfHREP0ArXzrW8_PbF-t9G3GaJaGYXA2NvyBYKRy4TDd3ceYkxyQo-Bl8Kxosb7nX-BewDAnoMP_8i1n4n53tIyrrwgj_rBIpj03Bv2JwC62xR8tZFRv2NURYDvk7fLQ/s320/money-4902545_960_720.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">To reference this paper:</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arnsperger, Christian, Bendell, Jem and Slater, Matthew (2021) </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monetary adaptation to planetary emergency: addressing the monetary growth imperative.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) Occasional Papers Volume 8. University of Cumbria, Ambleside, UK.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To reference this blog: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IFLAS (2021) Monetary adaptation to planetary emergency: new paper addresses the monetary growth imperative, Blog of the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), March 21st, University of Cumbria, UK. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The video of the webinar to launch the research paper on the need to transform out monetary system:
<a href="https://youtu.be/CZ81-IduGfg">https://youtu.be/CZ81-IduGfg</a>
</span></span></p><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-34602595131340915152021-03-15T10:07:00.001-07:002021-03-15T10:07:17.439-07:00People-Centred Health and Deep Adaptation - by Asiya Odugleh-Kolev of the World Health Organisation<p><i>This is a guest
blog from a recent participant in the <a href="https://store.cumbria.ac.uk/product-catalogue/general/short-courses/sustainable-leadership-and-deep-adaptation-online-with-jem-bendell-july-2021" target="_blank">Sustainable Leadership and Deep Adaptation short course</a>, offered by the University of Cumbria. <b>Asiya Odugleh-Kolev</b>
is a technical officer at the World Health Organisation, and a member of the
Holding Group of the Deep Adaptation Forum.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSn7aQ8b6IwxS0427nKq9ZobzIFR8m26RkhhU8SufXt5ETK05aAET0ckxFpUT1LXOLV5JaCjtOl7-USn8J-qz9kASZ1u3nQPcAKHd_SCefHqek4Oc9T88Tfe-8CBTg2HbFvnyPI7KS7UHp/s512/asiya_odugleh-kolev.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSn7aQ8b6IwxS0427nKq9ZobzIFR8m26RkhhU8SufXt5ETK05aAET0ckxFpUT1LXOLV5JaCjtOl7-USn8J-qz9kASZ1u3nQPcAKHd_SCefHqek4Oc9T88Tfe-8CBTg2HbFvnyPI7KS7UHp/s320/asiya_odugleh-kolev.jpeg" /></a></div><br />As the COVID-19
pandemic challenges both health systems and whole communities around the world,
the matter of how we help each other maintain physical, mental and emotional
health in the context of social distancing is a hot topic of conversation. People
are realising that one cannot be separated from the other. They are all deeply interconnected
and contribute to our health and overall sense of wellbeing. In fact, the
restriction of traditional ways of being with others has focused attention on precisely
what we have lost - the quality and nature of our participation in relationship,
whether at the family, community, organizational and societal level and how we
give and receive. Where these relationships have been healthy and functional,
we have mourned their loss. Where these relationships have been dysfunctional
and toxic, the result has been an increase in violence.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></span></span><sup><a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></sup>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am convinced that as humanity is
challenged more by all kinds of disruptions and disturbances, belonging, community
and our ability to relate will become more important. To meet that challenge,
we need more creative approaches to health, that integrate all aspects of who
we are, moving beyond the limitations of some of the current medical orthodoxy.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My work at the World
Health Organisation’s</span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Integrated Health Services Department, is concerned
with how we take a whole-person whole-system approach to community engagement
and how such an approach can support health services become more resilient and
people-centred so that health care environments are capable of contributing to
the health and well-being of their own workforce and the populations they
serve. This work is essential to break down silos created by standard medical
knowledge. I have seen how disconnected a health system can be from itself and the
needs of the communities they serve. Whether working in Sierra Leone during
epidemics, or in the UK with refugee families, </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have experienced and observed first-hand some of the deep flaws in our
mindsets and healthcare systems. Content and process are routinely separated which
in turn creates multiple blind spots in health service planning, delivery and
experience. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the integration of the
promotion of health in our everyday interactions through human connection and relationship
building is the exception rather than the norm in every country I have visited.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Why is this the case? Like
other sectors, health has been shaped by its historical legacy and shored up by
disciplinary silos across the sciences that impede collective learning and
sense-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not what we know but
how that knowledge is applied to address real world problems that still challenges
us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our healthcare systems were originally
designed to diagnose and treat disease. They were driven by the eradication of
infectious diseases that were prevalent at the time hence the focus on
technical solutions such as vaccines, anti-biotics and water and sanitation
programmes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The consequence of such a
system has been to reduce people to body parts and minimize investments in the
social determinants of health. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot has
already been written by others about the need to evolve from a </span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bio-medical
mindset – especially as more people find themselves in a period of sustained
uncertainty and disruption. The irony is that the need for more socially-based
interventions are coming from the natural sciences. Imaging and</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> diagnostic tools that have allowed us to peer inside
our brains and bodies and the work of scientists on gene function and
expression are all reinforcing the critical connection between the mind, the
body and lived experience.<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The neural architecture and
algorithms that humans need for navigating life and making sense of the world
are laid down in early childhood. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Consequently,
as a species we know an awful lot about what contributes to building healthy individuals,
families, communities, schools, and workplaces. yet that knowledge is not being
translated into supporting the adaption and evolution of our systems of human organization
and governance across all sectors.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It has been estimated
that it takes roughly 17 years or longer for research to become integrated and
mainstreamed into the health sector, with most innovation taking place outside
of formal health systems.<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><sup>
<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></sup>
Furthermore, science itself is only just catching up with indigenous knowledge
and ways of knowing about our interconnectedness. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
have often said that we need to acknowledge the science of common sense.
Indigenous knowledge and ways of relating and living has been built over
thousand of years of observation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Research</span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> has shown t</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">hat lack of
social connection is a greater detriment to health than obesity, smoking and
high blood pressure, and that genes impacted by loneliness also code for immune
function and inflammation.<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><sup>
<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></sup>
According to the Stanford Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research and
Education, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">strong social connections
boost immunity and lengthen life. People who feel more connected to others have
lower levels of anxiety and depression, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">higher self-esteem</span>, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">greater empathy</span> for others. They are also <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">more trusting and cooperative,</span> and
others are therefore more open to trusting and cooperating with them. In other
words, social connectedness generates a positive feedback loop of social,
emotional and physical well-being</i>”.<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We don’t need a
medical degree to understand how humans are born to bond and wired to connect, and
human relationships are the primary social “building block” of community. Yet
the breakdown of extended families, the increasing isolation of caregivers and the
stress people are exposed to through social adversity and life events deeply
affect their ability to connect and to form and sustain healthy relationships.
Understanding this complexity is important for develop more systemic interventions
that help individuals and communities to cope and to thrive. This means
connecting the dots between different disciplines, including brain sciences and
the relational sciences, and the social and emotional contexts in which
clinical and technical work gets done. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When it is carried out with this intention,
c</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ommunity engagement can become a transformative
process and a mechanism to reorient public sector institutions, starting with
health. Institutions and places of work have to become the new “relational
schools” of the present and future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The need for the
medical systems of the world to evolve beyond the limitations of a standard
medical mindset feels important to me personally. I was born into an oral
society in East Africa where relationships define who we are and our culture. Relationship
and connection are in my DNA. But early childhood trauma also taught me what
disconnection and isolation feel like and what the long-term consequences can
be to someone’s development. It has taken decades of self-reflection and inner
work to learn how to feel safe in my relationships so that I can contribute to
mutually empowering relationships that are interdependent. For instance, during
my work with refugee communities in the UK, I found it much easier to help
others find their voice than to express my own needs and preferences. It has
been a painful yet joyful process that has brought me to my knees but also enabled
me to celebrate significant success.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I share with you my
own journey because an aspect of the standard medical mindset which needs to
change has been to downplay our own humanity, beyond the important oath to do
no harm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember one of my directors
telling me over a decade ago that public health has traditionally played the role
of Cinderella to medicine. However, COVID-19 has demonstrated that individual
and population-based approaches are inseparable. The pandemic has also focused
attention on the needs of the health workforce and there have been increasing
calls on the need for compassion at all levels with a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>particular emphasis on health leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means tackling chronic work overload, acute
staff shortages, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>workforce attrition and
retention as well and dealing with relational crises.<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> This
was before the virus appeared and in a COVID world will require a different
kind of investment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, roughly
54 million people experience workplace bullying in the US, and healthcare
organizations have the highest incidence of bullying across all sectors.<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Studies
from Europe show that half of all doctors report symptoms of depression,
exhaustion, dissatisfaction and a sense of failure, compromising patient safety
and service quality, and contributing to medical errors. <a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><sup>
<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </sup></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lateral
or horizontal violence in nursing is also described as a “persistent occupational
hazard within the global nursing workforce”.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[15]</span></span></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no magic bullet when the problem is the
confluence of multiple factors to create a culture that needs radical self-love
and a reorientation to purpose. Namely, a hierarchical structure, patriarchy,
silos, and outdated, fragmented medical curricula and methods of professional
training.<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
When asked, health system changemakers have often described the culture and
leadership of health systems as being one of command and control and highly
masculinized. Given that 50-75% of the global health workforce are women, the
brunt of caring and front-line delivery of health services falls on those who
do not have a voice at the decision-making table and are unable to have their
needs heard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The phrase “physician
heal thyself” echoes through the ages, and into the corridors of the World
Health Organisation. Because we cannot encourage a shift to more people-centred
approaches across the world, if we do not explore what this means for our own
lives and work. Therefore, I am an active member of a Change Agent Network to
transform our own culture and ways of working. I am also collaborating internally
and externally to promote innovation in research to address gaps in evidence for
community engagement, while learning from changemakers around the world about how
they are leading successful change at different levels of the health system. As
part of this work, and my own desire to expand and deepen my own leadership
practice, I discovered the <a href="https://jembendell.com/2020/12/31/beyond-climate-war-writings-on-deep-adaptation-to-societal-collapse/" target="_blank">Deep Adaptation movement</a>. Here I met people who were
either experiencing or anticipating societal disruption and even collapse, and
responding by emphasising the opportunities for holistic transformations of
self and society.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is important,
because there are increasing indicators that we must take the possibility of
greater societal disruptions seriously. In my experience, the
transdisciplinarity needed for our health systems to address precursors to
societal disruption and collapse remains at the stage of initial ideas. Deep
Adaptation provides a framework, among others aligned with profound transformation
of self and society and inspiration to go further in that work. It also offers
a framework for how we can have a different quality of conversation within our organizations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It may seem very bleak
to some, especially who have had no experience of societal disruptions in their
recent cultural history. Yet, given my own life experience, I have some faith
that out of a situation of growing health stresses and disruptions, we can
start to connect the dots and there can be the opportunity for the health
sector to begin to renew its purpose and meaning alongside similar efforts in
the education sector. To become partners in collective action to heal our
organizations and reintegrate physical, mental, emotional and social health –
as in WHO’s definition of health. <a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><sup>
<a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/drjbe/Downloads/Asiya%20blog.docx#_ftn19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[19]</span></span></a></span></span></sup></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>IFLAS is taking
enrolments in the next offering of the <a href="https://store.cumbria.ac.uk/product-catalogue/general/short-courses/sustainable-leadership-and-deep-adaptation-online-with-jem-bendell-july-2021" target="_blank">Sustainable Leadership and Deep Adaptation Course</a>, online for 5 days from July 12<sup>th</sup>, with a one-day conference in
September. The course is led by Professor Jem Bendell. His co-edited <a href="https://jembendell.com/2021/02/23/deep-adaptation-the-book/" target="_blank">book on #DeepAdaptation</a> is now available for pre-order. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
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</div>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-19871840973234540312021-03-09T00:37:00.000-08:002021-03-09T00:37:17.786-08:00Citizenship and Sustainability of Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries’, book launch<p><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Tuesday 23 March from 16:00-17:30</span></p><div class="g-group l-mar-bot-6 l-sm-mar-bot-4" style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div class="structured-content g-cell g-cell-10-12 g-cell-md-1-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.933333rem; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: top; width: 560px;"><h2 class="text-body-large hide-small" style="font-size: 1.2rem; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px -0.25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">The University of Cumbria’s</span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding-top: 0px;">Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability</span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">(</span><a href="https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/research/centres/iflas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">IFLAS)</a><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">and the</span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership </span><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">(</span><a href="https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/academic-departments/business-industry-and-leadership" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Business, industry and leadership</a><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">)are delighted to announce the online launch of a new book by two of our academic staff:</span></h2><div class="has-user-generated-content" data-automation="about-this-event-sc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="structured-content-rich-text structured-content__module l-align-left l-mar-vert-6 l-sm-mar-vert-4 text-body-medium" style="font-size: 0.933333rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">‘<span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="padding-top: 0px;">Citizenship and Sustainability of Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries</em></span>’, edited by David F. Murphy and Alison Marshall published in January 2021.</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">This edited collection is the introductory volume of a new Routledge book series with the same name: '<em style="padding-top: 0px;">Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations</em>’.</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">The Online Book Launch on 23 March will be chaired by Dr Stephen Gibbs, Principal Lecturer in Business and Leadership, and will include an interactive panel discussion with contributing authors and the editors.</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><em style="padding-top: 0px;">"Citizenship and Sustainability of Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries</em> "offers an opening for debates on critical current issues, particularly those that may be too new to yet be the subject of theoretical studies.</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">The volume brings together chapter authors who are leading thinkers who are pushing the boundaries of conventional thinking about corporate citizenship and sustainability to advocate and generate innovative models and practices.</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">We plan to stimulate discussion at the online launch and you will be invited to actively contribute.</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">For more details click <a href="https://sustainabilitypractitioners.org/2021/02/22/citizenship-book-launch/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a></p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><em style="padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">All participants will receive the Zoom link prior to the launch by email.</span></em></p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Get your own copy</span></p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">Details of how to purchase the book with a 20% discount at Routledge Paperbooks Direct can be found in this PDF.</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">Download: <a href="https://sustainabilitypractitioners.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/citizenship-sustainability-in-organizations-book-flyer.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">citizenship-sustainability-in-organizations-book-flyer</a></p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Media Partner</span></p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">This event is supported by the Association of Sustainability Practitioners (ASP).</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">“Connecting, supporting and challenging sustainability practitioners.”</p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://sustainabilitypractitioners.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">sustainabilitypractitioners.org</a></p></div></div></div></div>iflashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677703835700306129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-29104972194962495762021-02-18T03:21:00.003-08:002021-02-18T03:21:39.509-08:00Peer-reviewed research in psychology on the impacts of discussing difficult futures such as societal collapse<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbBqFUyhWMu2qdfswIf32B6L-UwIyionMt93fY0oI1x6qJfi8vR-whiN2vNDZbzvW6jMu9CsnX2V8ePPrg3U3TIetWti5kEaQOzp5WRABwClgkGlbky0hJxmtmnLk_FOM3fxfpVVpfq2a/s2816/boardwalk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2816" data-original-width="2112" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbBqFUyhWMu2qdfswIf32B6L-UwIyionMt93fY0oI1x6qJfi8vR-whiN2vNDZbzvW6jMu9CsnX2V8ePPrg3U3TIetWti5kEaQOzp5WRABwClgkGlbky0hJxmtmnLk_FOM3fxfpVVpfq2a/s320/boardwalk.jpg" /></a></div>IFLAS has released an Occasional Paper by psychologist Jasmine Kieft of the <a href="https://climatejusticeunion.org/ " target="_blank">Climate Justice Union</a>. <p></p><p><b><i>"The Responsibility of Communicating Difficult Truths About Climate Influenced Societal Disruption and Collapse: An Introduction to Psychological Research"</i></b> provides a synthesis of peer-reviewed literature within the field of psychology. It is available for free <a href="https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5950" target="_blank">download</a> as a pdf. </p><p>The paper provides background information for the many scientists and scholars who are now speaking out about their varying levels of witnessing or anticipating societal disruption and collapse, as part of an international <a href="http://www.scholarswarning.net" target="_blank">Scholars Warning</a>. The paper is not an exhaustive review, but seeks to increase awareness of the need to learn from psychology research if making claims about the impacts of discussing difficult futures such as societal collapse. </p><p>In the foreword, Professor Jem Bendell explains the context where many scientists have been incorrectly stating that an anticipation of societal disruption or collapse necessarily leads to psychopathologies and/or apathy. The research in this review reveals that although that perspective is being presented as 'common sense' by many climate scientists, it is theoretically and empirically weak. Instead, there is peer-reviewed research suggesting otherwise. However, given the emotional impact of this issue, both Jasmine Kieft and Jem Bendell explain there is an urgent need to know more about how to communicate responsibly about this situation. </p><p>Prof Bendell is not a psychologist and explains the importance of prioritising of learning from this field: "Although psychological research is only one approach to considering the questions of whether, how and to whom scientists and scholars should talk about their anticipation of societal disruption and collapse, it is an important field to draw upon. Other relevant fields are sociology, anthropology, political science and spirituality. I hope this paper contributes something to a more sober and informed discussion within the climate policy arena about communicating difficult information."</p><p>If you suffer emotional distress about the topic, and do not have sufficient support for that, consider the resources linked to from <a href="https://jembendell.com/2018/07/26/emotional-support-in-face-of-climate-tragedy/" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p>Given the importance of this topic, if you find the paper to be of value, then sending it to the personal email of your colleagues as they consider whether and how to communicate on this matter will be welcome. </p><p>In March 2021 both Jasmine and Jem will be presenting and discussing this research at the <a href="https://nzaop.wildapricot.org/event-4022417" target="_blank">climate crucible event</a> of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. </p><p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>This paper presents a review of psychology research that can help people begin to assess the different ways they can responsibly support each other to talk about their thoughts and feelings on their perceptions of societal disruption and collapse, at home and abroad, due to environmental and climate change. It includes a summary of a review of published studies in psychology on matters of anticipating difficult futures, including vulnerability, disruption, disaster, suffering and mortality. The claims by both specialists and non-specialists that collapse anticipation is necessarily harmful to mental health and social engagement is shown to be theoretically and empirically weak. Instead, the research that suggests we engage each other on this upsetting topic to promote coping. It highlights the potential for that engagement to support people with processing difficult emotions and thus finding more pro-social and pro-environmental ways of responding to societal disturbances. The research is preceded by an extended foreword which locates this literature review in the context of the growing fields of Collapsology and Deep Adaptation.</p><p>The research explored the following statements, which were derived from discussions with psychologists working on climate anxiety. </p><p>1: The psychological impact of hearing grim predictions, from apathy to motivation, depends on how we help each other to process the implications of that foresight, including attention to the intellectual, emotional and physiological aspects of ourselves. There is a skill to be learned about how to break bad news and help each other integrate that bad news. </p><p>2: It is not predetermined how people respond to their perception of the increased vulnerability of them and their loved ones. It can lead to a range of different emotional (and neurobiological) and intellectual responses (in the immediate moment and over the longer term i.e. things change as people process emotions and discuss). Different pathways of response to increased vulnerability are influenced by context. In other words, although increasing fear often leads to support for simplistic, authoritarian and xenophobic ideas, it can lead to other responses, and depends on how we help each other process the emotions of vulnerability.</p><p>3: It is not proven that to foresee a calamity as probable or certain undermines action, with much evidence to the contrary.</p><p>4: Mental health can be supported through more honesty about our thoughts and emotions (including vulnerability about those) and more connection and dialogue with others. Conversely the avoidance of issues and the suppression of emotions about those issues is unhelpful for mental health and wellbeing. </p><p>5: Transference of responsibilities, or deference, to perceived authorities on matters of mental health and wellbeing are unhelpful for positive mental health outcomes. Instead, commitment to collective co-responsibility is helpful for mental health and wellbeing.</p><p>6: Those people who can allow foresight of calamity into their current experience might be able to help other people later on, if they have time to process the implications for themselves now.</p><p>The literature review found complete or nuanced support for each of these statements. </p><p>Learn more about the international scholars warning on societal disruption and collapse at <a href="http://www.scholarswarning.net">www.scholarswarning.net</a> </p><div><br /></div>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-49495977357341741712021-02-08T06:41:00.002-08:002021-03-31T06:18:48.479-07:00Over 500 sign #ScholarsWarning on collapse risk<p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">The Scholars Warning letter on the risks of societal
collapse was published in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/06/a-warning-on-climate-and-the-risk-of-societal-collapse" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> and </span><a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/12/10/que-les-decideurs-politiques-ouvrent-le-debat-sur-l-effondrement-de-la-societe-pour-que-nous-puissions-commencer-a-nous-y-preparer_6062912_3232.html" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Le
Monde</a><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"> in December 2020. By the end of the year, it had been signed by over 500
scientists and scholars from over 30 countries, representing dozens of academic
disciplines including climatology, environmental science, psychology and sociology.
The full list of the signatories follows below. If you have a PhD, you can still <a href="https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787bdf&id=7fc1ea497f" target="_blank">sign the letter here</a>. The signatories are now connecting with each other and exploring potential collaboration and future action - if you sign, you can join this initiative. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUuAs0USOnRw7XY2g9rk4f8cvhOyfwDUnBhNONrOMDsQe-XNKJ1JBkYGgtBfQE3GLCAoLLDi66g4hxlNgLJQZXsAWUODJgMD2dh4rGi7DUd6FPaaqo33fDEbGGCOlxRTm9t7QXt4_BMC2/s1107/scholarswarningvidimage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUuAs0USOnRw7XY2g9rk4f8cvhOyfwDUnBhNONrOMDsQe-XNKJ1JBkYGgtBfQE3GLCAoLLDi66g4hxlNgLJQZXsAWUODJgMD2dh4rGi7DUd6FPaaqo33fDEbGGCOlxRTm9t7QXt4_BMC2/s320/scholarswarningvidimage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">A <a href="https://youtu.be/f0frHoqXLB0">video of some
of the signatories</a> speaking the letter to camera was also released through
Facing Future TV.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The full-length <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/12/international-scholars-warning-on.html">version
of the letter</a> is available. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The letter has been published also in German, Croatian,
Spanish, Hungarian as well as French. A list of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ym_BxZ7yst5xJruIJsdo0G1x-UtaCnjJZuUBqAWW64/edit">translations</a>
is available. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The Scholars Warning letter was discussed in a number
of articles including the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-01-31/societal-collapse-collapseology-climate-change">LA
times</a>. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Follow</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/scholarswarning" style="font-size: 10pt;" target="_blank">scholarswarning</a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">on twitter. </span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Apart from the environmental campaign Extinction Rebellion,
it appears from social media accounts and press releases that environmental groups
in the English-speaking world entirely ignored this communication by international
scholars. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Dissatisfied with this lack of alarm, many of the
signatories are independently supporting the <a href="https://linktr.ee/ScientistRebellion">Global Scientists Rebellion</a>, March
25th-28<sup>th</sup>. That includes Cumbria University Professor Jem Bendell, who
will be fasting in solidarity with the scientists taking non-violent direct
action to call for more attention to the implications of climate and environmental
science. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Signatories to the warning letter will be engaged in future
to promote important messages about the climate predicament. That will take the
form of further joint letters, support and advice for the psychological implications
and responsibilities for speaking out, and trainings for effective and ethical
communications. A diversity of signatories will also be featured on Facing Future
TV. Non-English language collaborations are emerging amongst groups of signatories,
such as in <a href="mailto:scholarswarningfr@framalistes.org">France</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Responsible communication of research and its implications
for policy dialogue is a fundamentally important topic as people experience
more disruption, confusion and a sense of vulnerability, due to the direct and
indirect impacts of environmental change. Therefore, the principles with which people
coordinating future activities of the international Scholars Warning will
approach their work include: transdisciplinarity, diversity and rights.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -18pt;">Transdisciplinarity:
each academic discipline is one lens on what exists and is occurring in the
environment, society and the individual. Therefore, each discipline has its preoccupations,
limitations and oversights. In order for scholars and scholarship to be useful
to decision making, at all levels, an openness and capability for triangulating
insights from different disciplines is beneficial, as well as open recognition
of limitations and biases. Therefore, one scientific discipline will not be
privileged at the expense of insights from other fields of scholarship.</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></li><li><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -18pt;">Diversity:
the environmental predicament affects the whole world, but is disproportionately
affecting people in the Global South, including women, the poor and
marginalised minorities. Meanwhile, the mainstream communication from scholars
at national and global levels is still influenced more by men, white people and
the rich from the largest cities. It is also influenced by people who have
sought roles as public commentators in combative media environments. For the
national and global dialogue on what to do about our environmental predicament
to better reflect a diversity of views in the world, substantial attention and
resources must be given to this matter. </span></li><li><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Rights:
the effects of the environmental predicament on society, economics and politics
is one of destabilisation, within which context, people can react either
collaboratively in solidarity, or divisively in defensiveness. Claims from some
scientists that they have no view on the moral implications of their findings
and analysis, while at the same time influencing policy discussions, will not
be tenable as we enter a more disruptive period for humanity worldwide. An
aspect of responsible scholarly communication is to recognise and uphold the
importance of universal human rights when considering the potential policy implications
of research findings.</span></li></ol><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The aims of participants in future Scholars Warning
activities are:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -18pt;">An
increase in the number of senior leaders in all walks of life, worldwide, who
recognise that engaging with current societal collapse risk is credible,
urgent, creative and collaborative.</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></li><li><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -18pt;">An
increase in the number and diversity of scientists and scholars who understand
transdisciplinary approaches, uphold universal human rights and communicate
persuasively.</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></li><li><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -18pt;">An
increase in the awareness of scientists, scholars and senior leaders of fair
and appropriate policy responses to societal collapse risk - in the fields of
climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and climate restoration, and related
fields.</span></li></ol><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">If you are scientist or scholar with a PhD you can
consider signing the letter. First, read it <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/12/international-scholars-warning-on.html">here</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">If you are a journalist seeking to interview a signatory, then
please email press@scholarswarning.net <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">For emotional support on this extremely troubling matter, use some of
the links to resources from <a href="https://jembendell.com/2018/07/26/emotional-support-in-face-of-climate-tragedy/"><span style="color: #717f18;">here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">If you can produce an additional translation, or want to locate
one, then visit this emerging <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ym_BxZ7yst5xJruIJsdo0G1x-UtaCnjJZuUBqAWW64/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="color: #717f18;">list</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">If you want to engage with others on what this situation means to
your life and work, we recommend the <a href="http://www.deepadaptation.info/"><span style="color: #717f18;">Deep
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The list of signatories, in alphabetical order<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All these persons have PhDs or professional doctorates.
Their institutional affiliation is shown for information only, as they all
signed in a personal capacity. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lise Abravanel, General practitioner, Universite Paris,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">John Adams, Emeritus Professor of Organizational
Systems, Saybrook University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laurie Adkin, Professor, University of Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ahmed Afzaal, Associate Professor, Concordia College
(Moorhead, MN), US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Omar Al Hammal, Researcher, IPSA, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michael Albert, Lecturer, SOAS University of London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Glenn Albrecht, Retired academic and author, University
of Sydney, NSW, Australia, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elena Albrecht, Plant researcher, Private, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Zaheer Allam, Urban Strategist, Deakin University, MU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ira Allen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Northern
Arizona University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Adrian Almazan, Profesor Ayudante Doctor, Universidad
de Deusto, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pietro Altermatt, Principal Scientist, Trinasolar, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Joern Altmann, Professor, Seoul National University, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Rae Andre, Professor Emeritus, Leadership and
Sustainability, Northeastern University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Kelly Anthony, Teaching Professor in Public Health, University
of Waterloo, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alexandra-Ellen Appel, Personal capacity, Greenpeace, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gerardo Aquino, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of
London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jolene Armstrong, Associate Professor, Athabasca
University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Grete Arro, Researcher, Tallinn University, EE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michael Arts, Professor, Ryerson University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Benoit Assemat, Docteur Veterinaire, Federation des
Syndicats Veterinaires de France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Karen Atkinson, Research Associate, University of
Liverpool, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marie Christine Aubin, Retired, APRIL, PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">David Aubin, Professor in the History of Science, Sorbonne
Universite, Paris FR, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Adele Aubrey, Humanitarian and Conflict Response
Institute, University of Manchester, uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Genevieve Azam, Economist, Jean Jaures University,
Toulouse, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Susan Bailey, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Carolyn Baker, Author, Carolyn Baker Education Services,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bobby Banerjee, Professor, City University of London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Charly Bank, Associate Professor, University of Toronto,
DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Giuseppe Barbiero, Assistant Professor in Ecology, Laboratory
of Affective Ecology, University of Valle d'Aosta, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ugo Bardi, Professor, University of Florence, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Phoebe Barnard, Affiliate Professor, University of
Washington, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Aurelien Barrau, Professor of Astrophysics, Universite
Grenoble-Alpes, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Emeline Baudet, Postdoc researcher, Georgetown
University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Franz Baumann, Visiting Research Professor, New York
University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christoph Becker, Associate Professor, University of
Toronto, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Benjamin Belfort, Assistant professor, Strasbourg
University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jem Bendell, Professor, University of Cumbria, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Martine Benoit, Professor, Universite de Lille, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Domi Bernard, Physicist, Rennes- France ( Maitre de
Conferences - retraite), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Geoff Berry, Ecophilosopher, International
Ecopsychology Society, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Numa Bertola, Postdoctoral researcher, Epfl, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Adrien Biassin, Chercheur en systeme economique
alternatif soutenable, LUMIA, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nikola Biliskov, Senior research associate, Rudjer
Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, HR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Francoise Billebaud, Researcher, Bordeaux University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Andreas Birgegard, Associate professor, Karolinska
institutet, IE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jennifer Bissonnette, Interim Director, Nature Lab, Rhode
Island School of Design, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Rob Blakemore, Soil Ecologist, VermEcology, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sebastien Bohler, Editor in chief, Pour la Science, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tsilla Boisselet, Researcher, SCImPULSE Foundation, NO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Blaise Boles, Professor, Kirkwood College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Betsy Bolton, Professor, English Literature and
Environmental Studies, Swarthmore College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alberte Bondeau, Senior Scientist, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr. Gerd Bongs, Food chemist, Dr. Gerd Bongs scientific
consulting, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">German Bonilla, Postdoc, UNIL, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Frederic Boone, Researcher Astrophysics, Institut de
recherche en astrophysique et planetologie (IRAP), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Charles-Andre Bost, Director of Research-Senior
Scientist in environmental sciences, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dominique Bourg, Honorary Professor, University of
Lausanne, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ghislaine Bouvier, Assistant Professor, Bordeaux
University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dalila Bovet, Ethologist, Universite Paris Nanterre, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Martin Bowen, Physics Research Director, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Julie Boyer Dumont, Maitre de conferences en sciences
de gestion, Universite jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elizabeth Bragg, Ecopsychologist, Sustainable Futures
Australia, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Miguel Brandao, Associate professor in industrial
ecology and life cycle assessment, KTH Royal institute of technology, PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Clara Breteau, Post-doctoral researcher in geography
and environmental aesthetics, Universite de Caen, FR</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lajos Brons, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Lakeland
University Japan, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jason Brownlee, Professor of Government, University of
Texas at Austin, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Valerie Brunel, Praticienne du changement social et
chercheuse independante en SHS, KAIROS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Hedy Bryant, Facilitator and educator for living
systems informed practice., HARK Facilitation Services, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Daniel Buckles, Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton
University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jillian Buriak, Professor of Chemistry, Canada Research
Chair, University of Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ingela Bursjoeoe, PhD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden,
SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Colin Butler, Honorary Professor, Australian National
University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Shelagh Campbell, Professor Emerita, University of
Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Joana Campos, Biologist (researcher), CIIMAR, PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alice Canabate, Sociologue, Uni Paris I
Pantheon-Sorbonne, Vice-Presidente de la Fondation de l'Ecologie politique, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Leandro Caniglia, President, Fundacion Argentina de
Smalltalk, AR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Professor, UCLouvain, IE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Valentina Carbone, Professor, ESCP, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Professor, Universidad de los
Andes, Colombia, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Julian Carrey, Professor in Physics, INSA Toulouse, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">William Carroll, Professor of Sociology, University of
Victoria, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Joy Carter, Vice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chancellor, Winchester University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alexis Catanzaro, Professor in Management and
Entrepreneurship, University Jean Monnet, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tobit Caudwell, Teacher, Universite de Bourgogne, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Eric Cavalcanti, Associate Professor, Griffith
University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jeremie Cave, Professor in urban Ecology, Sciences Po
Toulouse, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Arnaud Chalin, Immunologist, Private corporation, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Kai Chan, Lead author IPBES, UBC, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gauthier Chapelle, Researcher, GIRAF, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ian Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Business and
Sustainability, University of Cumbria, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mark Charlesworth, Programme Leader - Geography, Bishop
Grosseteste University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mark Chater, Independent writer and researcher on
education, None, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mariana Chilton, Professor & Director, Center for
Hunger-Free Communities, Drexel University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter Choate, Professor Social Work, Mount Royal
University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Francis Chopin, Lecturer in Structural Geology and
Igneous Petrology, University of Strasbourg, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Humphrey Chris, Senior Scientist, ETH Zurich Center for
Development and Cooperation, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Floriane Clement, Research Fellow, INRAE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Cyrille Cleran, Philosophe, Universite buissonniere de
Haute-Bretagne (France), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Katy Coates, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, NHS, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Yves Cochet, Former Minister of the Environment, France,
Institut Momentum, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Olivier Coen, Post-doctoral researcher, INRAE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Karen Cohen, retired Public Health Physician, New
Mexico Departmentof Health, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Professor Beau Coleman, Associate Professor, University
of Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Claire Collot, Neurobiologiste, Industrie
pharmaceutique, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bruno Corbara, Maitre de Conferences Ecologie/Ethologie,
Universite Clermont Auvergne, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gregor Corbin, Teacher / Researcher, TU Kaiserslautern
DE, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mickael Coriat, Astrophysicist, IRAP - University
Toulouse 3, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Franck Corset, Assistant Professor, Universite Grenoble
Alpes, FRANCE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nick Cowern, Emeritus professor, Newcastle University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Travis Cox, Chair, Masters in Ecopsychology, Naropa
University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Robin Cox, Director, Professor, ResilienceByDesign Lab,
Royal Roads University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Wolfgang Cramer, Professor of Global Ecology, Directeur
de Recherche, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stef Craps, Professor of English Literature, Ghent University,
BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elspeth Crawford, retired lecturer, University of
Edinburgh, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Francois Criscuolo, Permanent researcher in
evolutionary biology (DR2), CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">David Crookall, Professor, UCA, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michel Cucchi, Assistant Director, University Hospital
of Lille, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christian Culioi, Medical, Medecins sans frontieres, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Hamish Cunningham, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ika Darnhofer, Assoc.Prof., University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, AT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gabriel Davies, Research Associate, Durham University, NI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mervyn de Borniol, Project manager, None, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Carlos de Castro, Professor, University of Valladolid.
Applied Physics departament., ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Erica de Greef, CoFounder, African Fashion Research
Institute, ZA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Olivier De Schutter, Professor, UCLouvain, IE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lucie Debeffe, Researcher, INRAE-CEFS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marc Deconchat, Senior scientist, INRAE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peggy Delaney, Professor emerita, UC Santa Cruz, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laurence Delattre, Assistant professor, University of
Lille, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Veronique Delvaux, Professor, FNRS Research Associate, University
of Mons, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nicolas Dendoncker, Professor of geography, University
of Namur, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gregory Derville, Maitre de conference, Science politique,
Universite de Lille, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Thomas Desaunay, Entrepreneur, Low-tech Yonne, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Miriam Diamond, Professor, University of Toronto, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michel Dobrijevic, Astrophysicist, Universite de
Bordeaux, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Richard Donovan, Lead, Sustainable Manufacturing
(S.M.A.R.T.), UC Irvine, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stephane Douady, Director of Research, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jeffrey Douglass, Personal, personal, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elizabeth Downing, Climate educator, Awakening Wisdom
Yoga and Meditation, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Fae Dremock, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies,
Ithaca College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marc Dufumier, Emeritus Professor, AgroParisTech, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Hannah Dugdale, Professor of Evolutionary Medicine, University
of Groningen, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Denis Dupre, Professor of ethics and finance, Grenoble
Alpes University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jean-Baptiste Durand, Assistant professor, Univ.
Grenoble Alpes, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laurent Duret, Directeur de recherche, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sophie Eberhardt, Researcher, Lepac, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Edina Eberhardt-Toth, Enseignante-chercheure en finance
et gouvernance socialement responsables, ICN Business School, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Natalia Eernstman, Senior lecturer, Plymouth College of
Art, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Markus Egermann, Head of Research Area
"Sustainability Transformations in Cities and Regions", Leibniz
Institute of Ecological Urban and Regiional Development, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Hans Eickhoff, Investigator, Degrowth Network Portugal,
PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jane Elliott, Professor of Sociology, University of
Exeter, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Scott Elrod, Associate Director of Licensing, Stanford
University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Susan Empson, Professor, University of Missouri, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">James Engell, Professor, Harvard University Center for
the Environment, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elina Eriksson, Associate Professor, KTH Royal
Institute of Technology, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Carr Everbach, Chair of Environmental Studies;
Engineering Professor, Swarthmore College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jara Falkenburg, Clinical Psychologist, National Health
Service, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sherry Falsetti, Clinical Psychologist, Enlighten Mind
Body Wellness LLC, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Louise Farquharson, Assistant Research Professor, University
of Alaska Fairbanks, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stephane Faure, Post-doc, CNRS - LPCNO, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Eleonore Faure, Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Blair Feltmate, Head, Intact Centre on Climate
Adaptation, University of Waterloo, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Serge Fenet, Maitre de conferences, Universite Claude
Bernard Lyon 1, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Isabelle Ferreras, Professor, University of Louvain, AT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tina Fields, Professor of Ecopsychology, Naropa
University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gwen Fischer, Volunteer, Deep Adaptation Forum, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marla Fisher, Teacher US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Juliane Floury, Associate Professor, L'institut Agro /
Agrocampus Ouest, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">John Foran, Professor of Sociology and Environmental
Studies, UCSB, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">John Fousek, Professor, New York University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Katy Fox, Ecosocial Designer, Mycelium Design, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Anne Fox, physicist, Axis Communications AB, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">frank frantisak, toronto, retired, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michael Friedrich, Senior Scientist in Dendrochronology,
University of Hohenheim, Germany, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tomasz Ganicz, Assistant Prof, Technical Univeristy of
Lodz, PL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tim Garrett, Professor, University of Utah, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Cyprien Gay, Physicist, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bruno Gayral, Researcher, CEA-Grenoble, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Veronique Germain, assistant professor, University of
Bordeaux, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marie Gevers, researcher, Universite de Namur, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Richard Gill, Emeritus professor of mathematical
statistics, Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Barry Gills, Scientist, University of Helsinki, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stephane Gipouloux, Ingenieur Eaux et Forêts, DDTM 64,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gael Giraud, Professor, Georgetown university, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alain Girault, researcher, INRIA, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Andrew Glikson, Earth and climate scientist, ANU, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alix Goguey, Associate Professor, Grenoble Alpes
University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Josh Goldstein, Los Angeles, University of Southern
California, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alexandre Gondran, Assistant professor, Ecole nationale
de l'aviation civile (ENAC), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Anthony Goodchild, Veterinary Epidemiologist (retired),
Animal & Plant Health Agency, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Full Professor, Museum National
d'Histoire Naturelle, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elena Granda, Researcher, University of Alcala, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nicolas Gratiot, senior scientist, Institut de
Recherche pour le Developpement, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Joyce Green, Professor, University of Regina, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Daniel Gregorio, HDR, UPHF-ISH (France), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gianluca Grimalda, Senior researcher, Kiel Institute for
the World Economy, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laurie Guimond, Geography Professor, Universite du
Quebec Montreal, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Caspar Hallmann, Research, Radboud University, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pierre-Jacques Hamard, Senior Research Scientist, Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Trevor Hancock, Professor Emeritus, School of Public
Health and Social Policy, University of Victotia, BC CANADA, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Yves Handrich, Researcher in conservation biology, Centre
National de La Recherche Scientifique (France), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Juan Jesus Haro Mora, Review Analyst in Genetics, None,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Hiroshi Hasegawa, Researcher, The Research Institute
for Saving Mother Earth, JP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Anders Hayden, Associate Professor, Dalhousie
University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stephen Healy, Honorary Senior Lecturer, UNSW, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stephanie Heil, PhD, Research Engineer, Linkoeping University,
Sweden, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ruben Heleno, Professor, University of Coimbra,
Portugal, PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bertrand Hespel, Professor, University of Namur, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jorg Heukelbach, Professor of Epidemiology, One Health
Institute Heukelbach, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tim Hewlett, Astrophysics postdoctoral researcher, Scientist
Rebellion, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">John Hiemstra, Professor of Political Science, The
King's University, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stuart Hill, Personal, Western Sydney University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Krista Hiser, Professor, University of Hawaii System, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mark Hixon, Hsiao Endowed Professor of Marine Biology, University
of Hawaii, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Andrew Hoaen, Lecturer, University of Worcester, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Wendy Hollway, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Open
University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lummina Horlings, Professor Socio-Spatial Planning, University
of Groningen, The Netherlands, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nick Hostettler, Senior Lecturer in Politics and
International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laurent Houssiau, Professor in physics, University of
Namur, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jean-Michel Huctin, Associate professor of anthropology,
Unversity of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mario Huettenhofer, Chemist, University of Konstanz,
Germany, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mark Alan Hughes, Professor and Center Director, University
of Pennsylvania, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jean-Michel Hupe, Researcher in political ecology, CNRS,
IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Justine A Huxley, London, St Ethelburga's Centre for
Reconciliation and Peace, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gwenael Imfeld, Citizen and researcher in biogeochemistry,
research director at CNRS, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ruth Irwin, Professor of Education, RMIT University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr Richard Jabot, Postdoctoral Researcher, Audencia FR,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Wes Jackson, President Emeritus, The Land Institute, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">DACHARY Jacques, retired, NEGAWATT, PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">John James, Adjunct Professor, University of New South
Wales, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Andrew Jameton, Professor Emeritus, University of
Nebraska Medical Center, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Robert R. Janes, Independent archaeologist, Coaltiion
of Museums for Climate Justice, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Angela Jansen, Independent scholar, Research Collective
for Decolonizing Fashion, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Francois Jarrige, Historian, Universite de Bourgogne, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sophie Javerzat, Professor of Genetics, University of
Bordeaux, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jamilia Jeenbaeva, Founder, senior expert, Dialecticon
Climate, ELEK Dilgir (Ecological Lectoria), KG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nico Jenkins, Asst Professor of Philosophy and Critical
theory, Maine College of Art, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Robert Jensen, Emeritus Professor, University of Texas
at Austin, USA, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jeremy Jimenez, Assistant Professor of Education
(Foundations and Social Advocacy), SUNY Cortland, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Clara Jodry, associate professor, UNISTRA, AZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr Rebecca Johnson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, University
Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Isabelle Joing, researcher, Universite de Lille, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Aled Jones, Professor, Anglia Ruskin University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Venance Journe, researcher, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Etienne-Pascal Journet, Researcher in Agronomy, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mike Joy, Senior researcher/ecologist, Victoria
University, HK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Darlene Juschka, Associate Professor, University of
Regina, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter Kabachnik, Professor of Geography, College of
Staten Island, The City University of New York (CUNY), US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr. Sonja Kaiser, Researcher, TUBAF Germany, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kalmus, Climate
Scientist US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">David Karowe, Professor, Western Michigan University, US</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laura Kehoe, Postdoctoral researcher, University of
Oxford, IE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Heiko Keller, LCA expert, senior project manager, ifeu
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tom Kelly, Executive Director, UNH Sustainability
Institute, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sean Kelly, Professor and author, California Institute
of Integral Studies, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Chrislain Eric Kenfack, Postdoctoral Fellow, University
of Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christian Kessler, Senior clinical scientist, Charite
Medical University Berlin, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Julia Kim-Cohen, Senior Lecturer, University of
Illinois at Chicago, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter Kindfield, Founder and Lead Teacher, Hilltop
Education Connections, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Florian Kletty, Researcher, CNRS (National Center for
Scientific Research), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Carola Kloeck, assistant professor, Sciences Po Paris, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Wolfgang Knorr, Research Scientist in Climate Change, Lund
University, GR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Richard Koch, Professor of English Emeritus, Adrian
College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marc Lachieze-rey, research director (retired), CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Daniel Lacour, Physicist, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pascal Lambert, Project Manager, Engineering and
R&D services, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Auriane Lamine, Associate Professor of Labour Law, Universite
catholique de Louvain, AT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Eva Lantsoght, Professor, Universidad San Francisco de
Quito, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sophie Larivet, Animator, La Fresque du Climat, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Julie Lavie, Researcher in Genetics, University of
Bordeaux, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Charles Le Feuvre, Deputy Executive Director, Psychology
for a Safe Climate, Melbourne, Australia, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jorge Leandro Rosa, Researcher and writer, Institute of
Philosophy, University of Porto, PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">karine leblanc, Researcher in Oceanography, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Cathy Lemer, Coach et Chef d'entreprise,, Elevatio, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nolwenn Lesparre, Researcher, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Joel Levey, Founder, Wisdom at Work, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jonathan Lilly, Research Scientist, Theiss Research, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christina Lindkvist, Associate Professor, Malmoe
University, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Evelin Lindner, Founding President, Human Dignity and
Humiliation Studies, NO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Vicki Little, Scholar, educator, Monash University
Malaysia, MY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alessia Lo Porto - Lefebure, Dean for Academic Affairs,
EHESP -French School of Public Health, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sabahat Lodhi, Teacher, Head of Science, BBIS, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jonathan Logan, Climate Strategist, Futurist, Attorney,
National Mobilizer, Extinction Rebellion America (USA), US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Derk Loorbach, Prof.dr., Erasmus University, DRIFT, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pascal Lorance, Scientist, Ifremer, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Thomas Love, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Linfield
University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Natalie Loveless, Associate Professor, Contemporary Art
and Theory, University of Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christopher Lyon, Research Fellow, University of Leeds,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christian Mahieu, researcher, ANIS-Catalyst, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Loys Maingon, Research Director, Strathcona Wilderness
Institute, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jean Pierre Malrieu, University teacher, Avignon
Universite, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Irene Malvestio, postdoc, Universitat de Barcelona, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stefano Mammola, Researcher, Finnish Museum of Natural
History, FI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mathieu Mangeot, Associate Professor, INRIA, STEEP team,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lara Mani, Research Associate, Centre for the Study of
Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Samuel Mann, Professor, Otago Polytechnic, NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Judith Mann, Clinical Psychologist, NHS, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Panos Mantziaras, Director, Fondation Braillard
Architectes, Geneve, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr. Andrea Marais-Potgieter, Cape Town, Nature Nexus
Academy, ZA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Trommenschlager Marion, Chercheure, University Rennes, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">David Mark Welch, Senior Scientist, Marine Biological
Laboratory, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Thomas Marois, Senior Lecturer, SOAS University of
London, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Valentin Maron, Teacher Researcher in Physics Education
Research, Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Clemence Marque, Pharmacist (PharmD), Adrastia, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Philippe Marquet, associate professor, univ. Lille, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elise Marquis, Marine Environmental Consultant, Freelance,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laurie Marrauld, Professor Assistant in digital and
resilient health management, EHESP, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stephen Martin, Visiting Professor in Learning for
Sustainability, University of the West of England Bristol, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr Rebecca Martin, Environment and Sustainability
Manager, District Council, NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Fran Martin, Honorary Research Fellow, University of
Exeter, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Miguel Martinez Ramos, TEU, Universitat Jaume I, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pauline Marty, Associate Professor, Universite de
Technologie de Troyes, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Thierry Masson, Researcher (Mathematical Physics), CNRS,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Andrew Mathewson, Biologist, University of Washington, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Emilie Mathieu, Postdoctoral researcher, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christof Mauch, Professor, Director, Rachel Carson
Center for Environment and Society, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pascal Maugis, Researcher, LSCE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Aimee Maxwell, Psychologist, Deep Adaptation, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stella Nyambura Mbau, climate resilience consultant, LOABOWA,
KE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ben McCall, Professor of Sustainability, University of
Dayton, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Josie McLean, Principal and Founder, The Partnership
Pty Ltd, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Hope McManus, Language and Linguistics Researcher, Independent,
AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Barry McMullin, Professor, Dublin City University, IE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dominique Meda, Full professor, University Paris
Dauphine-PSL, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">marie-antoinette melieres, enseignante-chercheuse en
paleoclimatologie, Universite Grenoble-Alpes, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michelle Merrill, founder and community organizer, Novasutras,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Deena Metzger, Teacher /Writer, Dare, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Byron Miller, Professor of Geography, University of
Calgary, Canada, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michael Mills, Associate Professor of Psychology, Loyola
Marymount University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marceau Minot, PhD, University of Rouen Normandy, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lauren Mohn, Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore
College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alison Mohr, Associate Professor, University of
Nottingham, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Federico Monaco, Research Fellow, University of Parma, FI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Silvia Mongili, Teacher, University of Cagliari, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Frederic Monier, Professeur en histoire contemporaine, Avignon
university, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Claude Monteil, teacher-researcher, University of
Tououse, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Richard Moodey, Professor of Sociology, Gannon
University, Erie, PA, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bronwen Morgan, Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Paul Morgan, Professor, West Chester University of
Pennsylvania, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Patricia Morgan, Research Associate, UNSW, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Andy Morse, Professor of Climate Impacts, University of
Liverpool, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Daniel Morse, Research Associate, University of Bristol,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Susanne Moser, Ph.D., Director, Susanne Moser Research
& Consulting, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tadzio Mueller, Climate Justice Analyst, Rosa Luxemburg
Stiftung, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Anne Munro-Kua, Cheras, http://amktransformations.com/,
MY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">David F Murphy, Academic Lead, Initiative for
Leadership & Sustainability (IFLAS), University of Cumbria, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Chris Murray, Emeritus Staff Scientist, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lisa Nathan, Associate Professor, University of British
Columbia, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Constance L. Neely, Systems Catalyst, Facilitation for
Sustainable Development, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Zohannes Negesse, Abymes, Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire de la Guadeloupe, GP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marie Wilson Nelson, Professor Emerita, Integrated
Studies, National Louis University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Kris Nelson, Academic Advisor, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Professor, Graduate Institute for
International and Development Studies Geneva, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Timothee Nicolas, Researcher, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sandra Niessen, founding member, Research Collective
for Decolonizing Fashion, NL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Wolfgang Nitschke, Senior Scientist, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Henrik Nordborg, Rapperswil, OST Ostschweizer
Fachhochschule, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Juliet Norton, Agricultural Technology Researcher, Purdue
University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Andrew Norton, retired, Max Planck Institute for
Gravitational Physics, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Anne-Sophie Novel, Journalist, De Moins en Mieux, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Paulo Nussenzveig, Professor, Physics Institute,
University of Sao Paulo, BR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tomas J Oberding PhD, Teaching Faculty, University of
Phoenix, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elisabeth Oelmann, Consultant for Internal Medicine, Pharmaindustry,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Leif Ohlsson, Peace & Development Researcher (ret.),
Peace & Development Research Institute, Uni of Gothenburg, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Magali Ollagnier-Beldame, Researcher, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sarah Ollier, derby, Loughborough university, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Adi Ophir, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Visiting
Professor of the Humanities, Brown University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">David Orr, personal, Oberlin college, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michael Ortega, Research Engineer, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter Paeppinghaus, retired, retired, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Miguel Pajares, Social anthropologist, University of
Barcelona, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Geremy Panthou, Climatology Lecturer, Universite
Grenoble Alpes, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lilli Papaloizos, Lecturer, University of Basel
Switzerland, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Yin Paradies, Professor of Race Relations, Deakin
University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Richard Parncutt, personal, University of Graz, Austria,
AT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sebastien Payan, Professor, Sorbonne University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sylvain Payraudeau, Professor, ENGEES, Strasbourg,
France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christopher Peet, Professor of Psychology, The King's
University, Edmonton, AB, Canada, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Birgit Penzenstadler, Assistant Professor, Chalmers
University of Technology, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Celine Perea, University lecturer, Universite Grenoble
Alpes, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Claudio Pereira, Dirwctor, Koru transformacion
Instituto de Ecopsicologia, CO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tony Pereira, Professor, President, CEO, Institute for
Eco-Sustainable Engineering, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Dr. Patricia E. Perkins, Professor, York University,
Toronto, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jerome Noel Petit, Docteur en sciences de la vie, Pew, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Claire Petitmengin, Professor, Mines Telecom Institute,
Paris, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">John Phelps, Educator, Burke Indivisible, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Morgan Phillips, Director, The Glacier Trust, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Benoit Pichon, Professor, Universite de Strasbourg, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Clifford Pickett, Jr., Molecular Biologist, Swarthmore,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marie-Claire Pierret, researcher in geosciences, University
of Strasbourg, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stefania Pinna, Marine ecology, Sea project ASD, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Max Pinsard, Manager, Low-tech Lab Montreal, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Igor Polskiy, board member, GEN-Russia, RU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elodie Portanier, Post-doctorate, IFREMER, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Emmanuel Prados, Head of the INRIA research team STEEP,
INRIA, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sally Prebble, Clinical Psychologist, University of
Auckland, NZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marion Princaud, Founder of Waste Hunter, Waste Hunter,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Francis Putz, researcher/teacher, University of Florida,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Volker Quaschning, Professor, Berlin University of
Applied Sciences HTW Berlin, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jean-Jacques Quisquater, professor emeritus, UCLouvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, BElgium, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Terry Rankin, Activist, Retired, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michael Rao, Computer Scientist, ENS de Lyon, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">John Rapko, Writer/Lecturer, College of Marin, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Kalina Raskin, Biomimicry Expert at Ceebios, Ceebios,
FR, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">William Rees, Professor Emeritus Ecological Economics, University
of British Columbia, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sandra Rein, Associate Professor, University of Alberta,
CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Cecile Renouard, Presidente, Campus de la Transition, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Eloy Revilla Sanchez, Director, Estacion Biologica de
Donana CSIC, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Xavier Ricard Lanata, Senior Advisor, Directorate of
Treasury, Ministry of Economy and Finance, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Philippe Ricordeau, public health doctor, retired, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bernardino Roca, Infectious Disease Physician, Hospital
General Universitario of Castellon, Spain, ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Philippe-e Roche, Researcher, CNRS, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Estienne Rodary, Directeur de recherche, Institut de
recherche pour le developpement (IRD), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jane Rogers, Professor Emerita, XR Activist, Sheffield
Hallam University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Wendy Rogers, Professor of Clinical Ethics, Macquarie
University, Sydney AU, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Josyane Ronchail, Researcher, Laboratory LOCEAN, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laura Roop, Assistant Professor of Practice, Education,
University of Pittsburgh, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter Roopnarine, Curator, California Academy of
Sciences, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Shawn Rosenheim, Professor of English, Williams College,
US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gillian Ross, Author and meditation teacher AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Benoit Rossignol, Maitre de conferences en histoire, Universite
Paris, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gordon Rowland, Director, Center for Faculty Excellence,
Ithaca College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Daniel Ruiz, Affiliate Researcher, SSSUP, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pauline Rummel, Postdoc, scientific employee, Georg-August-Universitat
Goettingen, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tina Sabel-Grau, Postdoc, TU Berlin, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Victoria Sachse, Resercher, Universite de Strasbourg, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter Sainsbury, Professor, University of Notre Dame
Australia, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Noel B. Salazar, Professor in Social and Cultural
Anthropology, KU Leuven, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Steven Salmony, Pittsboro, AWAREness Campaign on The
Human Population, est. 2001, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Joyce Salvage, Signatory, National-Louis University
(retired), US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Geoffrey Samuel, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University,
AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Thibault Sana, Researcher, INRAE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">JP Sapinski, Assistant Professor of Environmental
Studies, Universite de Moncton, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Saskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Johannes Scheppach, Doctor, Charite University Medicine
Berlin, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Martin Scheringer, Professor of Environmental Chemistry,
Masaryk University Brno, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lisa Schipper, Research Fellow, Environmental Change
Institute, University of Oxford, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Benoit Schmaltz, Junior professor of law, Universite
Jean monnet, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Staffan Schmidt, Senior lecturer, Malmoe University, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pierre Yves Schobbens, Professor, University of Namur, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Franck Schoefs, Head of Sea and Littoral Research
Institute, Universite de Nantes, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Rebecca Schreiber, Research Consultant, University of
Munster, Germany, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Isabelle Schuerch, Postdoctoral Researcher (Social
History), University of Bern, CH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christian Schulz, Consultant of Anesthesiology, Technical
University Munich, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Sarah Schwoebel, Researcher, TU Dresden, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Christophe Sempels, Head of Research, Lumia, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pablo Servigne, Author and speaker, Independent, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">David Sheeren, Associate Professor, Toulouse INP-ENSAT,
FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Haris Shekeris, Researcher, SUCH (Sustainable Change
Research Network), CY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Orrin Shindell, Professor, Trinity University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Candida Shinn, Ecotoxicologist, Marine and Environmental
Sciences Centre (Portugal), PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Kirsten Shukla, Consultant Child and Adolescent
Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Trust, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Lynette Shultz, Professor, University of Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Amanda Shuman, Researcher and lecturer, University of
Freiburg, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Martin Siefkes, Research Associate, University of
Technology Chemnitz, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">George Simpson, Author, Post organisational contributor,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pritam Singh, Professor Emeritus, Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford, UK, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Clelia Sirami, Researcher in ecology, INRAE, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Richard Smart, Geotechnical Engineer, N/A, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Michael Smith, Professor of History and Environmental
Humanities, Ithaca College, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Terry Smith, Professor of Political Science, Columbia
College (MO), US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Isabelle Soraru, Docteur en Litterature Comparee, Universite
de Strasbourg, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ashley South, author, researcher and consultant., Chiang
Mai University, TH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Alfred Spira, Member of the French National Academy
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Medicine, Paris Saclay University, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Milena Stefanovic, Programme Manager, European Fund for
the Balkans, RS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Will Steffen, Earth System scientist, Australian National
University (Emeritus Professor), AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Stephen Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability
Education, University of Plymouth, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Melissa Sterry, Design Scientist, Complex Systems
Theorist, Futurologist, Bioratorium, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Victoria Stevens, Retired protected areas ecologist, BC
Parks, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Iain Stewart, Director, Sustainable Earth Institute, University
of Plymouth, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Jim R Stewart, Researcher, OceanForesters, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Makere Stewart-Harawira, Professor, Professor,
Indigenous, Environmental and Global Studies,, University of Alberta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Donald Strauss, Founding Chair, Urban Sustainability
Department, Antioch University Los Angeles, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Giovanni Strona, Associate Professor in Ecological Data
Science, University of Helsinki, FI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Peter Sturm, Senior Researcher, Inria, France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ian Sturrock, Senior Lecturer, Teesside University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Emily Stutzman, sustainability educator, Planet Earth, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Cedric Sueur, Professir, Universite de Strasbourg, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Heather Sullivan-Catlin, Professor of Sociology, State
University of New York - Potsdam, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Frederic Sultana, Research for Sport and Exercise
Sciences, Retirement, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Maristella Svampa, Senior Reserchear, CONICET, Argentina,
AR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Kate Swindells, Community Activist, HEART Community
Group, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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politique, Sciences Po Lille, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ye Tao, Lecturer, Rowland Institute at Harvard, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Roy Tasker, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Western
Sydney University, AU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Laure Teulieres, lecturer in history, Toulouse Jean
Jaures University (France), FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Raj Thamotheram, Founder and Senior Adviser, Preventable
Surprises, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Wanchat Theeranaew, Researcher in Medical Signal
Processing, Case Western Reserve University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Anthony Thomas, Assitant Professor, University of
Poitiers, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Amber Tomas, Statistical consultant, Amber Tomas
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bill Tomlinson, Professor of Informatics, University of
California, Irvine, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Balint Toth, researcher in environmental archaeology, Paris-Sorbonne
University, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Alps, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Maggie Turp, Psychologist, Climate Psychology Alliance,
UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Marshall Tuttle, Lecturer in Music, Retired, Langston
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de Valencia (Spain), ES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Elia Valentini, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ouest, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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EE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Worcester, UK, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Siena, Italy, IT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Charlotte von Bülow, Senior Lecturer in Leadership, University
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Bruxelles, BE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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England, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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France, FR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Martin Weinel, Research Associate, Cardiff University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sweden, SE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-91392004141405573752020-12-29T21:38:00.001-08:002020-12-29T21:38:30.972-08:00 Facts on Deep Adaptation in response to a New York Times style article<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Deep Adaptation Occasional Paper released in July 2018 has been downloaded over a million times and inspired a range of reactions, from full time climate activism to criticism of its analysis and influence. A recent article in the New York Times style section made some claims about the <a href="https://jembendell.com/2020/07/27/debating-the-pros-and-cons-of-deep-adaptation-start-here-with-a-new-edition-of-original-paper/" target="_blank">Deep Adaptation paper</a> and <a href="https://jembendell.com/2019/03/17/the-love-in-deep-adaptation-a-philosophy-for-the-forum/" target="_blank">movement</a> which Professor Jem Bendell responds to below.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-8ef50203-7fff-271a-6b25-d98150eb9855"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Professor Jem Bendell:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A recent article in the New York Times reports claims about a reduction of climate activism that results from an anticipation of collapse. That is not backed up by reports in the media over the last 2 years about the influence of the Deep Adaptation paper on the new wave of radical climate activism. For instance in <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/science/articles-reports/2019/04/17/john-humphrys-extinction-rebellion-noble-and-neces" target="_blank">YouGov</a> and the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9bcb1bf8-5b20-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a" target="_blank">Financial Times</a>. In addition, it is not backed up by Cumbria University's initial <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/06/does-anticipating-societal-collapse.html" target="_blank">research on the new kinds of action</a> being taken by participants in the<a href="www.deepadaptation.info" target="_blank"> Deep Adaptation Forum</a>. As a lifelong environmental activist, who wants fair and bold action on carbon cuts and drawdown, if there is substantial new evidence that an anticipation of collapse is undermining climate activism, then that is a concern and I would like to see it, and discuss its implications. For instance, rather than condemning anticipation of collapse, we could help each other explore the implications so more of us can arrive at pro-social responses. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people may be ignoring evidence of how an anticipation of collapse has inspired climate activism and are instead projecting onto people how they might feel and act if they anticipated collapse themselves. That is not to deny that the psychological implications of anticipating collapse are huge and incredibly important for all of us who wish to slow climate change and prepare for further disruptions in the future. I will therefore continue <a href="https://jembendell.com/2019/11/03/hope-in-a-time-of-climate-chaos-a-speech-to-psychotherapists/" target="_blank">working with psychologists</a> to invite informed and open discussion of the implications and what we can all do to help, and intend to share more on that in the coming weeks. The seriousness with which the DA Forum takes these matters is illustrated by their <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjX3p3SJKorQKiFBsyHhOHdZau8SHIq2Px14NnvSmLY/edit" target="_blank">safety and wellbeing policy</a>, support for grief tending, and advice on seeking professional help when in distress. It is also why its approach to <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/11/facilitation-for-deep-adaptation-iflas.html" target="_blank">facilitating gatherings</a> involves space for emotional expression and processing. That is contrary to some of the suggestions in the NYT article. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That article may suggest to some readers that I have a disdain for expertise on climate change. The opposite is the case. I tell anyone who asks, if they want to cross-check my claims on specific issues, to contact a number of scientists who specialise in those issues. Therefore, to discuss what I write about the Arctic, contact experts on the Arctic. To discuss what I write about tipping points, contact the published experts on tipping points. I reference them all in my writing, to make it easy to check with various experts. I also always warn against regarding famous scientific commentators as the one voice from climatology. To do that would be unscientific, as it would not recognise the varieties of views within the various subfields of climate science. It was in concluding that explanation to the NYT journalist that I said he should not rely on a couple of famous climatologists to prove a debunking of the science in the DA paper, and instead go find out for himself from those who work in the specific subfields. Unfortunately the quote used in the article left out that context, in a way that implies disrespect for well known climatologists. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I also always explain that the risks of societal collapse cannot be fully understood from within climate science, as societies are complex social systems, and we need insight from the huge field of scholarship now dubbed ‘<a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-10/how-everything-can-collapse-excerpt/" target="_blank">collapsology</a>’. I always note that the main weakness of my DA paper is that it did not explore and summarise that field, and that I am still learning from that field and invite climatologists to do the same. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The DA paper discussed the implications of Arctic ice loss and tipping points by citing a range of experts on that. I do not reach a conclusion that methane hydrates on the Arctic ocean floor are definitely being released at significant scale, but conclude that there should not be confidence there will not be a mass release of methane from that source in the near future. Therefore, I have continued to <a href="https://jembendell.com/2020/10/28/methane/" target="_blank">call for constant monitoring</a> of the situation, and taking current scientist measurements of methane very seriously. One can not overstate how worrying this issue is, even when being criticised for being alarmist or doomist for expressing concern and questioning the confidence of people who dismiss the possibility. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The NYT article includes a comment from Dr Kate Marvel that is presented as a criticism of the science in the DA paper and yet does not relate to what is in my paper. I paste in a relevant section of the paper and the article below. I do not confuse albedo effect and tipping points. I cite experts on the albedo effect and a study on how much radiative forcing arises from ice loss. This criticism is used in the NYT article as the basis for implying that the field of collapse anticipation is based on faulty science. One could argue against the scientific basis for collapse anticipation in more informed and nuanced ways that might aid our understanding of our situation. However, the way the article treats the topic reflects an approach that over 500 scientists and scholars have recently criticised as <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/12/international-scholars-warning-on.html" target="_blank">unhelpful suppression of the discussion of collapse risk</a> and readiness. It also suggests a conflict between scholars which might not actually exist, and simply be misunderstandings of what one or the other has written or said. It is unfortunate that people reading the NYT might think I dismiss Dr Marvel or any climatologist, when the quoted sentence was within my explanation about the importance of seeking granular expertise on specific matters. Therefore, in clarifying this, I would like to confirm that I do not disrespect or disregard the work of Dr Marvel, or any other climatologist, but still encourage journalists to look further than the most famous names in the broad field of climatology when engaging in contentious aspects of climate change. For instance, it is quite easy to contact the scientists I referenced in the paper on albedo and the Arctic. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The NYT article talks about DA implying it is too late to ‘save the world’. Neither myself or anyone I work with uses that frame or phrasing. Such a phrase reflects a set of anthropocentric patriarchal assumptions about the world and the human relationship to it. Perhaps some people assume that current industrial consumer societies constitute the only “world” worth “saving”. Following the work of Sheldon Solomon, perhaps that reaction is because these societies are the ones that have been the source of our identity, and as we become more anxious, unless we support each other's equanimity, we become more attached to our existing stories of identity, belonging and purpose. That is why it is so important to listen to the <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/preparing-end-world-we-know-it/" target="_blank">insights of indigenous scholars</a> and people who work with them, such as Professor Vanessa Andreotti, who is on the holding group (advisory board) of the DA Forum. It may also be a reason why the DA Forum itself recently questioned the ‘save the world’ framing in their most <a href="https://www.deepadaptation.info/blog/daf-two-years-on" target="_blank">recent review</a> of where the Forum is now at since I left it in September. It is also why loosening our attachment to stories which affirm our separation and superiority with the rest of creation are central to the ethos of DA activities, as we explain in detail in a <a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/11/facilitation-for-deep-adaptation-iflas.html" target="_blank">recent paper</a>. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To anticipate societal collapse because of ecological and climate change, impacting directly and indirectly on social processes, is an emotionally difficult way of experiencing life. Yet it also means people show up stripped of many of their old stories of success, status, and certainty, which allows for a more connected and generative way of being and working together. Unfortunately the very existence of this worldview will continue to alienate some people, and so I will encourage in myself and others in the DA movement our ongoing patience, discernment, forgiveness and focus. Our choice is to focus on reducing harm and promoting connection, not avoiding criticism or winning arguments. That does not mean we wait for those criticisms will stop. Rather, they are likely to grow as much as collapse anticipation grows. The silver lining is that the criticisms will bring more attention to how some people have this perspective, and then those people who are ready will be able to discover the kind, curious and creative ways people are voluntarily engaging for positive change. That faith in how many of us can be our better selves through various crises, whatever the consequences, is something that sustains me. To get a sense of the diversity of ideas about how to live positively when anticipating collapse, you could <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/criticise-deep-adaptation-start-here/" target="_blank">read my reflections</a> in Open Democracy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Section from the DA Paper on Arctic albedo</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Given a reduction in the reflection of the Sun’s rays from the surface of white ice, an ice-free Arctic is predicted to increase warming globally by a substantial degree. Writing in 2014, scientists calculated this change is already equivalent to 25% of the direct forcing of temperature increase from CO2 during the past 30 years (Pistone et al, 2014). That means we could remove a quarter of the cumulative CO2 emissions of the last three decades and it would already be outweighed by the loss of the reflective power of annual Arctic sea ice cover. One of the most eminent climate scientists in the world, Peter Wadhams, believes an ice-free Arctic will occur for a summer in the next few years. Once that happens, the warming feedbacks make it near certain that, after some years, an entire year will be ice free in the Arctic, which he calculated will likely increase by 50% the warming caused by the CO2 produced by human activity (Wadhams, 2016).[3] Whereas some scientists assess warming implications to be lower than that (Hudson, 2011), if correct, it would render the calculations of the IPCC redundant, along with the targets and proposals of the UNFCCC. Between 2002 and 2016, Greenland shed approximately 280 gigatons of ice per year, and the island’s lower-elevation and coastal areas experienced up to 13.1 feet (4 meters) of ice mass loss (expressed in equivalent-water-height) over a 14-year period (NASA, 2018). Along with other melting of land ice, and the thermal expansion of water, this has contributed to a global mean sea level rise of about 3.2 mm/year, representing a total increase of over 80 mm, since 1993 (JPL/PO.DAAC, 2018). The IPCC has been found to have underpredicted sea level rise, as part of its general “understatement of existential climate risk” (Spratt and Dunlop, 2018). Recent data shows that the upward trend is non-linear (Malmquist, 2018). That means sea level is rising due to non-linear increases in the melting of land-based ice."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The New York Times article refers to this section here:</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mr. Bendell writes that the loss of the reflective power of ice in the Arctic is such that even a removal of a quarter of the cumulative carbon dioxide emissions of the last three decades would be outweighed by the damage already done. Dr. Marvel said that this represents a basic misunderstanding. Though ice melting represented a feedback loop, she said, in which an effect of the climate becoming warmer itself contributed to further warming, there was a conflation in Mr. Bendell’s thought between that feedback loop and a so-called tipping point.
“It’s not an example of a tipping point,” she said. “This is something that is well understood. You make it warm. You get rid of ice. You make it cold. You get ice.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><i style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">On this section Prof Bendell notes: I did not write about tipping points in this section of the DA paper on albedo. What I write about tipping points, citing specialists on tipping points, can be read in the <a href="https://jembendell.com/2020/07/27/debating-the-pros-and-cons-of-deep-adaptation-start-here-with-a-new-edition-of-original-paper/" target="_blank">full paper</a>. If Dr Marvel's critique can be clarified to me, so a change can be made in the paper, then that would be ideal. I have opened up the paper for such comment <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10wWF94aQEmZF12IwK6H1igtsI6IZsDpq2IfaKeMq4jg/edit" target="_blank">here</a>. A difficulty is that with misinformed or confusing critiques, when I say they are misinformed or confusing, it is portrayed by some people as resisting feedback and criticism. Which is why I opened up the paper and am getting some useful clarifications and requests for clarifications.</i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><i style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><i style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIMbzOk5Qt4YXV5rVxRkduOcBAWFXZ0x3PIdRYtAMllqYMHryqdUmhJqNKaaZzGlEah-WzdUi5bqHFrznlJflyLqlhYM-aikG5uTnoEwf8EZdUs9M0GFWlruy_xQRGtHDUOYedWJuLFRU/s2048/shutterstock_1350949397.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIMbzOk5Qt4YXV5rVxRkduOcBAWFXZ0x3PIdRYtAMllqYMHryqdUmhJqNKaaZzGlEah-WzdUi5bqHFrznlJflyLqlhYM-aikG5uTnoEwf8EZdUs9M0GFWlruy_xQRGtHDUOYedWJuLFRU/s320/shutterstock_1350949397.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></div><i style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /> </i><p></p></span>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-44106879312083059022020-12-23T05:46:00.002-08:002020-12-23T05:46:42.937-08:00Enabling learning for wisdom and compassion in maternity care - new study<p>From Professor Jem Bendell, announcing publication of a new journal article:</p><p>"Whereas medical knowledge and medical management practices have been crucial for improving the lives of billions of people, there has been a shadow side to that progress. The dominance of certain forms of knowledge, attitude and behaviour within medical systems means that the wisdom, compassion and initiative of people who choose to work in helping the health and wellbeing of their fellow humans can be undermined. The profit motive in all aspects of health systems increases the potential undermining of such knowledges and approaches. </p><p>Supporting the wisdom, compassion and initiative of people who provide health services, whether in formal or community settings will be increasingly important as established medical systems are put under increasing pressure, arising from disruptions of many kinds. For instance, pandemics are <a href="https://jembendell.com/2020/03/23/the-climate-for-corona-our-warming-world-is-more-vulnerable-to-pandemic/" target="_blank">likely to increase</a> due to human impacts on the environment and climate. </p><p>In a new paper co-written with colleagues from Lancaster University and Impact International we seek to contribute to a dialogue on how to better support wisdom, compassion and initiative amongst medical professionals. We focus on what can be an emotionally intense aspect of medical service provision - maternity wards." </p><p>The paper "Professional Learning from Disturbances in Healthcare: Managerialism and Compassion" appears in the International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 9(2), 129–151</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWq4sIqosRnKZRIB7a5-Z_Z9D06Tl5zV1luCW5Bnr9sk6qNlpLzhKpvSUjNIaPMFcnngWu_KK1kfP_O47ZeYqH3rKGdijJHb3ZbvRxky3hUsbnPVdAJeJAgmeOAIrClfPy1FOV_MrVcEu/s544/journal2020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="544" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWq4sIqosRnKZRIB7a5-Z_Z9D06Tl5zV1luCW5Bnr9sk6qNlpLzhKpvSUjNIaPMFcnngWu_KK1kfP_O47ZeYqH3rKGdijJHb3ZbvRxky3hUsbnPVdAJeJAgmeOAIrClfPy1FOV_MrVcEu/w389-h223/journal2020.JPG" width="389" /></a></div>It can be accessed for <a href="http://www.issbs.si/press/ISSN/2232-5697/9-2.pdf" target="_blank">free</a>. <p></p><p>It is written by:</p><p>Katie Willocks, Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom</p><p>Jem Bendell, University of Cumbria, United Kingdom</p><p>Richard Little, Impact International, United Kingdom<br /></p><p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>This study asks what behaviours might convert professional disturbances in maternity wards into opportunities for learning within healthcare and how that process is influenced by models of management and leadership. A framework of Cultural History Activity Theory helped to analyse moments of fractured collaboration in which uncertainty about roles and differences in professional status was a factor. Implications for professional learning are discussed along with the frames that might give coherence and utility to future research. We conclude that any interventions to support professional learning should reflect the broadly compassionate ethos that informs the commitments and activities of healthcare workers.</p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-81210158879469742122020-12-09T02:52:00.034-08:002020-12-09T04:01:35.783-08:00IFLAS Occasional Papers<b>Occasional Paper 1: Searching for Sustainability Leadership </b><div>Limited progress towards the sustainability of either business or society despite decades of voluntary initiative is one reason why more managers and academics are calling for better leadership for sustainability. This is mirrored by the increase in degree programmes offering sustainability leadership. This Occasional Paper draws upon Critical Leadership Theory to argue that the existing paradigms in leadership and leadership education are counter to sustainability and should not be incorporated into sustainability efforts unchallenged. Instead, a new approach to leadership and its development is required, which begins to be introduced in <a href="http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1947/" target="_blank"><b>this paper</b></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Occasional Paper 2: Deep Adaptation: A map for navigating the climate tragedy </b></div><div>Occasional Paper on themes of leadership and sustainability. “Deep Adaptation: A map for navigating the climate tragedy” addresses in depth some implications of the most recent climate measurements and science, <a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2018/07/new-paper-on-deep-adaptation-to-climate.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Occasional Paper 3: Post-Civilisation </b></div><div>IFLAS is pleased that philosopher, Chair of Green House thinktank, and leading member of Extinction Rebellion, Dr Rupert Read has contributed our 3rd Occasional <a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2018/12/post-civilisation-iflas-occasional.html" target="_blank"><b>Paper</b></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Occasional Paper 4: Local Future Tax Credits: Towards a tool for local government to finance itself and help adapt to the climate emergency </b></div><div>Occasional Paper #4 seeks to start a conversation with people who have knowledge of either local government finances or the implementation of local policies on the climate emergency, <b><a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2019/11/financing-local-government-climate.html" target="_blank">here</a> </b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Occasional Paper 5: Early recollections - as a research method for finding fuller meaning in the values of wellbeing </b></div><div>During a global pandemic practitioner wellbeing is an important topic, many people are working from home and delivering their usual services over video conferencing technologies. Whilst this may have some benefits for a better work life balance and is hugely reducing the environmental impact of travel, many people are feeling more isolated which can reduce wellbeing, <b><a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/10/iflas-ocassional-paper-how-do-we.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Occasional Paper 6: Facilitation for Deep Adaptation </b></div><div>This paper supports people with designing and facilitating gatherings on Deep Adaptation, whether online or in-person. The term ‘Deep Adaptation’ describes an agenda and framework for responding to the potential, probable or inevitable collapse of industrial consumer societies, due to the direct and indirect impacts of human-caused climate change and environmental degradation (Bendell, 2018) <b><a href="https://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/11/facilitation-for-deep-adaptation-iflas.html" target="_blank">here</a>.
</b></div>iflashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677703835700306129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-11657958591911331142020-12-06T05:03:00.009-08:002020-12-09T03:37:31.576-08:00International Scholars Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b>If you are a scientist or scholar you can still <a href="http://eepurl.com/hiWqd1" target="_blank">sign the letter</a> before the end of 2020, and a final list will be published in January. </b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A public
letter signed by over 250 scientists and scholars from 30 countries, calls on policy
makers to engage more with the growing risk of societal disruption and collapse
due to damage to the climate and environment. The letter invites focus on how
to slow, prepare for, and help those already suffering from, such disruptions. The
signatories are specialists in a range of subject areas that relate to this challenge,
who commonly believe it is time to listen to all the scholarship on humanity’s predicament.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The
referenced letter and a full list of signatories, at the moment of publication
on Dec 6<sup>th</sup> 2020, follows below. In English, an edited version of the
letter appears in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/06/a-warning-on-climate-and-the-risk-of-societal-collapse" target="_blank"><i>The Guardian</i> (Monday 7<sup>th</sup> 2020)</a>. The letter
will also be published in French.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you could
bring more attention to this letter, please use #scholarswarning
#breakdownwarning hashtags in your social media posts. You can follow this <a href="https://twitter.com/scholarswarning">Scholars Warning on twitter</a> and
direct people to this page via <a href="http://www.scholarswarning.net/">www.scholarswarning.net</a> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Subject: Only if we discuss collapse might we prepare</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As scientists and scholars from around the world, we
call on policymakers to engage openly with the risk of disruption and even
collapse of our societies. After five years of failing to reduce carbon
emissions in line with the Paris Climate Accord (1), we must now face the
consequences. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While bold and fair efforts to cut emissions and
naturally drawdown carbon are essential, researchers in many areas now consider
societal collapse to be a credible scenario this century (2a & 2b). A range
of views exist on the location, extent, timing, permanence and cause of such
disruptions; but the way modern societies exploit people and nature is a common
concern (3a & 3b).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Only if policymakers begin to discuss this threat of
societal collapse might communities and nations begin to prepare and so reduce
its likelihood, speed, severity, harm to the most vulnerable, and to
nature. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some armed services already see collapse as an
important scenario, requiring planning (4a and 4b). Surveys show many people
now anticipate societal collapse (5). Sadly that is already the experience or
memory of many communities in the Global South (6). However, the topic is not
well reported in the media, and mostly absent from civil society and politics.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When potential collapse is covered by the media, it
typically cites people who condemn discussion of the topic. Ill-informed
speculations, such as on foreign misinformation campaigns, or impacts on mental
health and motivation, will not support serious discussion (7). Rather, such
claims risk betraying the thousands of activists and community leaders whose
anticipation of collapse is part of their motivation to push for change on
climate, ecology, and social justice. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">People who care about environmental and humanitarian
issues should not be discouraged from discussing the risks of societal
disruption or collapse. That could risk agendas being driven by people with
less commitment to such values.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some of us believe that a transition to a new form of
society may be possible. That will involve bold action to reduce damage to the
climate, nature and other people, including preparations for major disruptions
to everyday life. We are united in regarding efforts to suppress discussion of
collapse as hindering the possibility of that transition. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We have experienced how emotionally challenging it is
to recognise the damage being done, along with the growing threat to our own
way of life. We also know the great sense of fellowship that can arise (8). It
is time to invite each other into difficult conversations, so we can reduce our
complicity in the harm, and be creative to make the best of a turbulent future
(9). </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Signed, in
a personal capacity, by: Professor <b>Gesa Weyhenmeyer</b>, Uppsala University; Professor
<b>Will Steffen</b>, Australian National University; Professor <b>Kai Chan</b>, Lead Author, Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; Professor
<b>Marjolein Visser</b>, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Professor <b>Olivier De Schutter</b>, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights; Professor <b>Yin
Paradies</b>, Deakin University; Professor <b>Saskia Sassen</b>, Columbia University; Dr <b>Ye Tao</b>, Harvard University; Professor <b>Aled Jones</b>, Anglia Ruskin University; Professor
<b>Joy Carter</b>, Winchester University; Professor <b>Bobby Banerjee</b>, University of
London; Professor<b> Lummina Horlings</b>, University of Groningen; Professor <b>Pritam Singh</b>, University of Oxford; Professor <b>Rupert
Read</b>, University of East Anglia; Dr. <b>Peter Kalmus</b>, Climate Scientist; Dr.
<b>Malika Virah-Sawmy</b>, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin; Dr. <b>Yves Cochet</b>, Former
Minister of the Environment (France); Dr. <b>Marie-Claire Pierret</b>, University of
Strasbourg; Dr. <b>Wolfgang Knorr</b>, Lund University; The Very Reverend Dr. <b>Frances
Ward</b>, St Michael's Church; Dr. <b>Alessia Lo Porto-Lefebure</b>, School of Public
Health (France); Dr. <b>Emmanuel Prados</b>, INRIA; Dr. <b>Pablo Servigne</b>, Author; Dr.
<b>Gail Bradbrook</b>, Extinction Rebellion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">References
follow below the full list of signatories. If you
have a PhD or professional doctorate, then to sign the letter before the end of
2020 visit <a href="http://eepurl.com/hiWqd1">here</a> (and thus receive
updates on the reaction and implications). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWTVOiDxOmjPgKRAE2G2GtumAg46JxwJnbkrmA0cRYMt7fmdU98wM6LJIrEhC7-qsbwkuvC05_0mDQIGiDcwTfuJQHHU3fQnK6eJ0W0nn4lYKEAtMdf2ngX-uInltQXrj2qGClgDmB2oL/s2048/shutterstock_329486198.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWTVOiDxOmjPgKRAE2G2GtumAg46JxwJnbkrmA0cRYMt7fmdU98wM6LJIrEhC7-qsbwkuvC05_0mDQIGiDcwTfuJQHHU3fQnK6eJ0W0nn4lYKEAtMdf2ngX-uInltQXrj2qGClgDmB2oL/s320/shutterstock_329486198.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">For
emotional support on this extremely troubling matter, use some of the links to
resources from <a href="https://jembendell.com/2018/07/26/emotional-support-in-face-of-climate-tragedy/">here</a>. </p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you are
a journalist seeking to interview a signatory, then please email press@scholarswarning.net <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you can
produce an additional translation, or want to locate one, then visit this
emerging <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Ym_BxZ7yst5xJruIJsdo0G1x-UtaCnjJZuUBqAWW64/edit?usp=sharing">list</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you are
a scientist wanting to engage further, we recommend <a href="https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/">Scientists Warning Europe</a>,
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Concerned_Scientists">Union
of Concerned Scientists</a> and <a href="https://www.scientistsforxr.earth/about-us">Scientists for XR</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you
want to engage with others on what this situation means to your life and work,
we recommend the <a href="http://www.deepadaptation.info/">Deep Adaptation Forum</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you are
researching collapse risk, consider using <a href="https://www.collapsologie.fr/en/science/">this database</a> on collapse
scholarship, or contributing to it. If you want to read more about collapse
risk, we recommend the book <i><a href="https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509541386">How Everything
Can Collapse</a></i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All Signatories
(reverse alphabetical order, with organisation shown for information only, as
each signs in a personal capacity):</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Stephen
Zavestoski, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Caroline
Zaoui, Biotech entrepreneur, Novobiom BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sandra Wooltorton,
Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Research Institute CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Jason
Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr David Windt,
Physicist, Reflective X-ray Optics LLC US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sarah Williams,
University Lecturer, University of Cumbria UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Alison Whybrow,
Chartered Psychologist, Co-Founder Climate Coaching Alliance, The Vedere
Partnership Ltd UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Gesa
Weyhenmeyer, Professor, Uppsala University SW<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Dietmar
Weinmann, Physicist, CNRS DE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Martin Weinel,
Research Associate, Cardiff University FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Arthur Weaver,
Independent scientist, Independent US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Frances
Ward, Anglican Priest in Workington, Church of England UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Mark
Wallace, Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies, Swarthmore College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Stephane
Vuilleumier, Professor of Environmental Biology and Microbiology, CNRS team
leader, Universite de Strasbourg FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Charlotte
von Bulow, Senior Lecturer in Leadership, University of the West of England DK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Linda Vogelsong,
Founder, WovenStory Productions US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Marjolein
Visser, Professor, Universite Libre de Bruxelles BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Malika Virah-Sawmy,
Researcher, Humboldt universidad zu Berlin DE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Bruno
Villalba, Professeur science politique, AgroParisTech FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Florence
Vieban, Organization of a territorial food resilience, La Ceinture Verte (Green
Belt) FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Caroline
Verzat, professor, ESCP FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Nicolas
Vereecken, Associate Professor, Chair of Agroecology, Universite libre de
Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium) BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Elizabeth
Vander Meer, Research and Policy Manager (climate change and biodiversity), University
of Edinburgh UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Arnold van
Vliet, Biologist, Wageningen University NL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Marieke
Van Lichtervelde, Research fellow, University of Toulouse FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Lenny Van
Bussel, Assistant Professor, Wageningen University AT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Robert Turner,
Teaching Professor, University of Washington Bothell us<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Renaud Toussaint,
Researcher in Geophysics, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Balint Toth,
Researcher in environmental archaeology, Paris-Sorbonne University SE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Amber Tomas,
Statistical consultant, Amber Tomas Statistical Consultancy AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Wanchat
Theeranaew, Researcher in Medical Signal Processing, Case Western Reserve
University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Laure Teulieres,
Lecturer in history, Toulouse Jean Jaures University (France) FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Ye
Tao, Rowland Fellow, Rowland Institute at Harvard US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Mark Swoiskin,
MD, UCSF us<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Kate Swindells,
Community Activist, HEART Community Group UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Cedric
Sueur, Professor, Universite de Strasbourg FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Ian Sturrock,
Senior Lecturer, Teesside University UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Peter Sturm,
Senior Researcher, Inria, France FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Giovanni
Strona, Associate Professor in Ecological Data Science, University of Helsinki FI<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Donald
Strauss, Founding Chair, Urban Sustainability Department, Antioch University
Los Angeles US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Iain Stewart,
Director, Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Victoria
Stevens, Retired protected areas ecologist, BC Parks CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Melissa
Sterry, Design Scientist, Complex Systems Theorist, Bioratorium FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Stephen
Sterling, Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education, University of
Plymouth UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Will
Steffen, Earth System scientist, Australian National University (Emeritus
Professor) AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Milena Stefanovic,
Programme Manager, European Fund for the Balkans RS<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Ashley South,
Author, researcher and consultant., Chiang Mai University TH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Isabelle
Soraru, Researcher, Universite de Strasbourg FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Michael
Smith, Professor of History and Environmental Humanities, Ithaca College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Pritam Singh, University of Oxford, UK & IN</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Amanda Shuman,
Researcher and lecturer, University of Freiburg DE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Candida
Shinn, Ecotoxicologist, Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (Portugal) PT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Orrin
Shindell, Professor, Trinity University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr David Sheeren,
Associate Professor, Toulouse INP-ENSAT FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Pablo Servigne,
Author and speaker, Independent FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Isabelle
Schurch, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bern CH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Pierre
Yves Schobbens, Professor, University of Namur BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Saskia
Sassen, Professor, Columbia University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Thibault
Sana, Researcher, INRAE FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Geoffrey
Samuel, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Joyce Salvage,
Retired, National-Louis University (retired) US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Daniel Ruiz,
Affiliate Researcher, SSSUP IT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Shawn
Rosenheim, Professor of English, Williams College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Peter Roopnarine,
Curator, California Academy of Sciences US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Laura Roop,
Assistant Professor of Practice, Education, University of Pittsburgh US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Estienne
Rodary, Directeur de recherche, Institut de recherche pour le developpement
(IRD) FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Xavier Ricard
Lanata, Senior Advisor, Directorate of Treasury, Ministry of Economy and
Finance, France FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor William
Rees, Professor Emeritus (human ecology, ecological economics), University of
British Columbia CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Rupert
Read, Professor, University of East Anglia UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Terry Rankin,
Activist, Retired US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Francis
Putz, Researcher/teacher, University of Florida US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Marion Princaud,
Founder of Waste Hunter, Waste Hunter FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sally Prebble,
PhD Clinical Psychology, University of Auckland NZ<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Emmanuel
Prados, Head of the INRIA research team STEEP, INRIA FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Igor Polskiy,
Board member, GEN-Russia RU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Max Pinsard,
Manager, Low-tech Lab Montreal CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Marie-Claire
Pierret, Researcher in geosciences, University of Strasbourg FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Clifford
Pickett, Jr., Molecular Biologist, Swarthmore US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Claire
Petitmengin, Professor, Mines Telecom Institute, Paris FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Christopher
Peet, Professor of Psychology, The King's University, Edmonton, AB, Canada CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Sylvain
Payraudeau, Professor, ENGEES, Strasbourg, France FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Yin
Paradies, Professor of Race Relations, Deakin University au<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Lilli Papaloizos,
Lecturer, University of Basel Switzerland FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Geremy Panthou,
Lecturer/Researcher. Fields: Climatology/hydrology, Universite Grenoble Alpes FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Michael
Ortega, Research Engineer, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sarah Ollier,
Researcher, Loughborough university UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Magali Ollagnier-Beldame,
Researcher, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Timothee
Nicolas, Researcher, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Vinh-Kim
Nguyen, Professor, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
Geneva CH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Marie
Wilson Nelson, Professor Emerita, Integrated Studies in Teaching, Technology
& Inquiry, National Louis University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Chris Murray,
Emeritus Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA,
USA US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr David F
Murphy, Academic Lead, Initiative for Leadership & Sustainability (IFLAS),
University of Cumbria UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Anne Munro-Kua,
Cheras, AMK Transformations MY<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Tadzio Mueller,
Climate Justice Analyst, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung DE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Susanne
Moser, Director, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Andy
Morse, Professor of Climate Impacts, University of Liverpool UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Bronwen
Morgan, Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Paul
Morgan, Professor, West Chester University of Pennsylvania US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Patricia
Morgan, Research Associate, UNSW AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Claude Monteil,
Teacher-researcher, University of Toulouse, France FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Lauren Mohn,
Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Michelle
Merrill, Founder and community organizer, Novasutras US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Dominique
Meda, Full Professor, University Paris Dauphine-PSL FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Josie McLean,
Principal and Founder, The Partnership Pty Ltd AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Ben
McCall, Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Aimee Maxwell,
Psychologist, Deep Adaptation AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Emilie Mathieu,
Postdoctoral researcher, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Andrew Mathewson,
Biologist, University of Washington US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Stephen
Martin, Visiting Professor in Learning for Sustainability, University of the
West of England Bristol UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Fran Martin,
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter uk<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professoer
Laurie Marrauld, Professor Assistant in digital and resilient health management,
EHESP FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Elise Marquis,
Marine Environmental Consultant, Freelance FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Philippe
Marquet, Associate professor, University de Lille FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Clemence
Marque, Pharmacist (PharmD), Adrastia FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr David Mark
Welch, Senior Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Lara Mani,
Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of
Cambridge FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Stefano
Mammola, Researcher, Finnish Museum of Natural History FI<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Irene Malvestio,
Postdoc, Universitat de Barcelona IT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Christian
Mahieu, Researcher, ANIS-Catalyst FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Thomas
Love, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Linfield University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Pascal Lorance,
Scientist, Ifremer FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Jonathan
Logan, Climate Strategist, Futurist, Attorney, National Mobilizer, Extinction
Rebellion America (USA) US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sabahat
Lodhi, Teacher, Head of Science, BBIS DE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Alessia
Lo Porto - Lefebure, Dean for Academic Affairs, EHESP -French School of Public
Health FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Vicki Little,
Scholar, educator, Monash University Malaysia MY<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Evelin Lindner,
Founding President, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies NO<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Joel Levey,
Founder, Wisdom at Work US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Researcher
Nolwenn Lesparre, Researcher, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Cathy Lemer,
Coach et Chef d'entreprise, Elevatio FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Jorge Leandro
Rosa, Researcher and writer, Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto PT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Eva
Lantsoght, Professor, Universidad San Francisco de Quito NL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Auriane
Lamine, Associate Professor of Labour Law, Universite catholique de Louvain AT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Daniel Lacour,
Physicist, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr marc lachieze-rey,
Research director (retired), CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Wolfgang
Knorr, Research Scientist in Climate Change, Lund University GR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Peter Kindfield,
Founder and Lead Teacher, Hilltop Education Connections US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Adrian Kendry,
Visiting Professor of Economics, Security and Peacebuilding, University of
Winchester UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Sean
Kelly, Professor and author, California Institute of Integral Studies US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Tom Kelly,
Executive Director, UNH Sustainability Institute US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Minna Kanerva,
Senior researcher in sustainability science, University of Bremen DE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Peter Kalmus,
Climate scientist, Various US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Mike Joy,
Senior researcher/ecologist, Victoria University HK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Aled
Jones, Professor, Anglia Ruskin University UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Clara Jodry,
Associate professor, UNISTRA AZ<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Robert
Jensen, Emeritus Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Nico Jenkins,
Asst Professor of Philosophy and Critical theory, Maine College of Art US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Jamilia
Jeenbaeva, Founder, senior expert, Dialecticon Climate, ELEK Dilgir (Ecological
Lectoria) KG<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Sophie
Javerzat, Professor of Genetics, University of Bordeaux FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Francois
Jarrige, Historian, Universite de Bourgogne FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Wes Jackson,
President Emeritus, The Land Institute US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Ruth
Irwin, Professor of Education, RMIT University AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Gwenael
Imfeld, Citizen and researcher in biogeochemistry, research director at CNRS, CNRS
FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Justine
A Huxley, London, St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Jean-Michel
Hupe, Researcher in political ecology, CNRS IT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Jean-Michel
Huctin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Unversity of Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Laurent
Houssiau, Professor in physics, University of Namur BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Lummina
Horlings, Professor Socio-Spatial Planning, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands NL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Mark
Hixon, Hsiao Endowed Professor of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Krista
Hiser, Professor, University of Hawaii System US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Stuart
Hill, Personal, Western Sydney University AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Bertrand
Hespel, Professor, University of Namur BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Ruben
Heleno, Professor, University of Coimbra, Portugal PT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Stepanie
Heil, Engineer, Linkoping University, Sweden SE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Juan
Jesus Haro Mora, Review Analyst in Genetics, None US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Yves Handrich,
Researcher, The National Centre for Scientific Research (France), FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Caspar Hallmann,
Research, Radboud University NL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Laurie
Guimond, Geography Professor, Universite du Quebec - Montreal CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Nicolas
Gratiot, Senior scientist, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Elena Granda,
Researcher, University of Alcala ES<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Pierre-Henri
Gouyon, Full Professor, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Alain Girault,
Researcher, INRIA FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Gael
Giraud, Professor, Georgetown university FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Richard
Gill, Emeritus professor of mathematical statistics, Mathematical Institute,
Leiden University NL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Marie Gevers,
Researcher, Universite de Namur BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Tim
Garrett, Professor, University of Utah US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Tomasz Ganicz,
Assistant Professor, Technical Univeristy of Lodz PL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Katy Fox,
Ecosocial Designer, Mycelium Design BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor John
Foran, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, UCSB US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Gwen Fischer,
Volunteer, Deep Adaptation Forum US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Tina
Fields, Professor of Ecopsychology, Naropa University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Isabelle
Ferreras, Professor, University of Louvain AT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Serge Fenet,
Maitre de conferences, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Stephane
Faure, Post-doc, CNRS - LPCNO FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Louise Farquharson,
Assistant Research Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sherry Falsetti,
Clinical Psychologist, Enlighten Mind Body Wellness LLC US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Carr
Everbach, Chair of Environmental Studies; Engineering Professor, Swarthmore
College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Susan
Empson, Professor, University of Missouri US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Scott Elrod,
Associate Director of Licensing, Stanford University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Jane
Elliott, Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Hans Eickhoff,
Investigator, Degrowth Network Portugal PT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Natalia
Eernstman, Senior lecturer, Plymouth College of Art UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Edina Eberhardt-Toth,
Enseignante-chercheure en finance et gouvernance socialement responsables, ICN
Business School NL<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sophie Eberhardt,
Researcher, Lepac FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Denis
Dupre, Professor of ethics and finance, Grenoble Alpes University FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Marc
Dufumier, Emeritus Professor, AgroParisTech FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Fae Dremock,
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Ithaca College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Elizabeth
Downing, Climate educator, Awakening Wisdom Yoga and Meditation US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Gregory
Derville, Maitre de conference, Science politique, Universite de Lille FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Nicolas
Dendoncker, Professor of Geography, University of Namur BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Laurence
Delattre, Assistant Professor, University of Lille FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Olivier
De Schutter, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food, UCLouvain IE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Gabriel
Davies, Research Associate, Durham University NI<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Hamish
Cunningham, Professor, University of Sheffield UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Elspeth
Crawford, Retired lecturer, University of Edinburgh UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Bruno Corbara,
Maitre de Conferences Ecologie/Ethologie, Universite Clermont Auvergne FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Claire Collot,
Neurobiologiste, Industrie pharmaceutique FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Yves Cochet,
Former Minister of the Environment (France), Institut Momentum FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Floriane
Clement, Research Fellow, INRAE FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Humphrey
Chris, Senior Scientist, ETH Zurich Center for Development and Cooperation CH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Francis
Chopin, Lecturer in Structural Geology and Igneous Petrology, University of
Strasbourg Fr<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Mariana
Chilton, Professor & Director, Center for Hunger-Free Communities, Drexel
University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Mark Chater,
Independent writer and researcher on education, Independent UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Mark Charlesworth,
Programme Leader - Geography, Bishop Grosseteste University UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Ian Chapman,
Senior Lecturer in Business and Sustainability, University of Cumbria UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Gauthier
Chapelle, Independent researcher, GIRAF BE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Kai Chan,
Vancouver, UBC CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Tobit Caudwell,
Teacher, Universite de Bourgogne FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Alexis
Catanzaro, Professor in Management and Entrepreneurship, University Jean Monnet
FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Joy
Carter, Vice Chancellor and Professor, Winchester University UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Julian
Carrey, Professor in Physics, INSA Toulouse FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Hedy Bryant,
Facilitator and educator for living systems informed practice., HARK
Facilitation Services AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Jason
Brownlee, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Lajos Brons,
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Lakeland University Japan JP<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Clare Breteau,
Post-doctoral researcher, Universite de Caen FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Ann Braun,
Independent consultant, Development Evaluation | Monitoring & Evaluation
Support NZ<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Elizabeth
Bragg, Ecopsychologist, Sustainable Futures Australia AU<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Martin Bowen,
Physics Research Director, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Dalila Bovet,
Ethologist, Universite Paris Nanterre FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Dominique
Bourg, Honorary Professor, University of Lausanne CH<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Charles-Andre
Bost, Director of Research-Senior Scientist in environmental sciences, CNRS FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Frederic
Boone, Researcher in astrophysics, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et
planetologie (IRAP) FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Betsy
Bolton, Professor, English Literature and Environmental Studies, Swarthmore
College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Blaise
Boles, Professor, Kirkwood College US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Sebastien
Bohler, Editor in chief, Pour la Science FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Jennifer
Bissonnette, Interim Director, Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Adrien Biassin,
Researcher, LUMIA FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Martine
Benoit, Professor, Universite de Lille FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Jem
Bendell, Professor, University of Cumbria UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Benjamin
Belfort, Assistant professor, Strasbourg University FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Aurelien
Barrau, Professor of astrophysics, Universite Grenoble-Alpes FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Phoebe Barnard,
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Ugo
Bardi, Professor, University of Florence IT<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Bobby
Banerjee, Professor, City University of London UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Carolyn
Baker, Author, Life and Leadership Coach, Carolyn Baker Education Services US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Genevieve
Azam, Economist, Jean Jaures University, Toulouse, France FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Adele Aubrey,
Partnerships and Programmes Manager, University of Manchester UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Grete Arro,
researcher, Tallinn University EE<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Alexandra-Ellen
Appel, Activist, Greenpeace US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Kelly Anthony,
Teaching Professor in Public Health, University of Waterloo CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor Ira
Allen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Northern Arizona University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Elena Albrecht,
Plant researcher, Private FR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dr Michael
Albert, Lecturer, SOAS University of London UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Professor John
Adams, Emeritus Professor of Organizational Systems, Saybrook University US<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">References in the letter</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mostly these links are to news stories about research,
and the academic papers are referenced within these stories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">1) Jackson, R B, P Friedlingstein, R M Andrew, J G
Canadell, C Le Quéré and G P Peters (2019), </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab57b3/meta"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Persistent fossil fuel growth threatens the Paris
Agreement and planetary health</span></a><span style="color: black;">,
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 14, Number 12</span><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab57b3/meta"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">2a) Science Alert (2020) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-top-scientists-warn-combined-environmental-crises-will-cause-global-collapse"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Scientists Warn Multiple Overlapping Crises Could Trigger
'Global Systemic Collapse' (sciencealert.com)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">2b) Kalmus, P. (2020) With global heating, expect
inferno seasons in the American West, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-12/climate-change-wildfires-california-oregon-heat"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-12/climate-change-wildfires-california-oregon-heat</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">3a) Servigne, P. and R. Stevens (2020) “How Everything
can collapse. A Manual for our Times, Polity Books, London. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">3b) Andreotti V. et al (2020) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/preparing-end-world-we-know-it/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Preparing for the end of the world as we know it |
openDemocracy</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">4a) Vice (2020) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/ep4w5j/british-military-prepares-for-climate-fueled-resource-shortages"><span style="color: #1155cc;">British Military Prepares for Climate-Fueled Resource
Shortages (vice.com)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">4b) Vox (2020) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/2/24/21145687/climate-change-usa-military-book-interview"><span style="color: #1155cc;">How the Pentagon plans for climate change - Vox</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">5) Cassely, J.-L. and Fourquet, J. (2020). La France :
Patrie de la collapsologie ?. [online] Fondation Jean Jaures. Available at: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://bit.ly/37jzvOv"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://bit.ly/37jzvOv</span></a><span style="color: black;"> .For a press dispatch in English, see </span><a href="https://bit.ly/2XKNWaU"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://bit.ly/2XKNWaU</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">6) The Guardian (2020) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/19/climate-crisis-leaving-2-million-people-a-week-needing-aid-red-cross"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Climate crisis leaving 2 million people a week needing
aid – Red Cross | Environment | The Guardian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">7) The Guardian (2020), </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/meet-the-doomers-some-young-us-voters-have-given-up-hope-on-climate"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up
hope on climate | Environment | The Guardian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">8) Bendell, J. and D. Cave (2020) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://iflas.blogspot.com/2020/06/does-anticipating-societal-collapse.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Does anticipating societal collapse motivate pro-social
behaviours? (iflas.blogspot.com)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">9) Carr, K. and J. Bendell (2020) </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5792/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Facilitation
for Deep Adaptation: enabling loving conversations about our predicament -
Insight (cumbria.ac.uk)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Professor
Jem Bendell of the University of Cumbria is one of the signatories. He
explains:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Over 250
scientists and scholars have issued a warning to humanity that we need to make
the increasing disruption from climate change a focus of research and policy.
We come from dozens of countries and subject disciplines and perceive a
resistance by the establishment to serious engagement in adapting to the
increasing disruptions to food, water, health, and the economy. It is time to
listen to the scholarship and try to reduce harm from societal disruption and
even collapse. I believe the growing movement for <a href="https://jembendell.com/2019/03/17/the-love-in-deep-adaptation-a-philosophy-for-the-forum/">Deep
Adaptation</a> to societal breakdown can be part of that agenda.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Total number of caveats upon signing:</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Dr Wanchat Theeranaew: Our civilization is much more fragile than we believe. We are now entering the change of Earth System toward a new equilibrium. This alone will be extremely harmful to our civilization since all of our infrastructures were constructed based on stability.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Dr Wolfgang Knorr: This is not a statement of preference for any particular viewpoint within the broad debate of the Climate and Ecological Emergency, but rather an expression of a wish to broaden the debate as far as possible.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Dr Gwen<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fischer: Climate disruption is happening and people's lives are unraveling.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Dr Mark<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charlesworth: Having made clear that societal collapse cannot be dismissed in Charlesworth M and Okereke, C (2010) Policy responses to rapid climate change: An epistemological critique of dominant approaches, Global Environmental Change, 20(1), 121-129 </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="font-size: large;">Dr Phoebe Barnard: We can be prepared, or caught unawares. Discussion and preparedness for a full range of possibilities is essential, especially where partial (or even temporary) societal collapse will widen existing inequalities.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Professor Ira Allen: Failure to consciously negotiate what is, in effect, already a staggered collapse of the various systems that support humans' current forms of life will allow those most concerned with profiting off of this ruination to succeed, further immiserating the many.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Professor John Adams: We can no longer afford to govern through cognitive dissonance.</i></span></p>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-70694564389308574692020-11-23T06:01:00.001-08:002020-11-23T07:52:59.260-08:00Facilitation for Deep Adaptation- IFLAS Occasional Paper 6<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc933112-7fff-e204-0670-a03f7b4f0268" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How can people be helped to engage each other in kind, courageous and generative dialogue?</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where they help each other notice and transcend the fetters on their ability to connect and explore together?</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where they engage in the most difficult issues of our time, as societies are increasingly disturbed and disrupted?</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new IFLAS Occasional Paper offers an approach: facilitation for deep adaptation. </span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is available in <a href="http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5792/" target="_blank">pdf download</a>.</span></b></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-cc933112-7fff-e204-0670-a03f7b4f0268"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abstract</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This paper supports people with designing and facilitating gatherings on Deep Adaptation, whether online or in-person. The term ‘Deep Adaptation’ describes an agenda and framework for responding to the potential, probable or inevitable collapse of industrial consumer societies, due to the direct and indirect impacts of human-caused climate change and environmental degradation (Bendell, 2018). It involves the inner and outer, personal and collective, responses to either the anticipation or experience of societal collapse. Gatherings on this topic within the Deep Adaptation Forum have given attention to how we can cultivate a state of presence, connection, and equanimity, from which engaged action may arise. A facilitator to support participants to learn collaboratively and experientially has been key to that focus.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this paper some of the aspects of Deep Adaptation facilitation that have emerged from a community of practice of volunteer facilitators are summarised. These aspects include containment, with the intention of enabling co-responsibility for a safe-enough space for difficult conversations to occur with difficult emotions. Another key aspect is welcoming radical uncertainty in response to the anxieties people feel, as their sense of self, security and agency are challenged by the anticipation of collapse. A third aspect of this facilitation is making space for grief, which is welcomed as a natural and ongoing response to our predicament. A fourth aspect is a curiosity about processes of othering and separation. That arises due to our assessment that a seemingly innate process of imagining separation, and therefore ‘othering’ people and nature as less significant or meaningful, has been a habit in modern society that impedes responses to social and environmental crises.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Three specific modalities are summarised. First, Deep Listening groups are small gatherings in which participants are invited to share honestly and openly about how they are feeling, and what they are experiencing, as they grapple with the implications of the unfolding climate tragedy. Crucially, they are not dialogic. Second, Deep Relating circles invite people into a relational meditation practice, or an approach to relating with others in a way that is grounded in a detailed awareness of present moment experience. Third, Death Cafes provide a safe and confidential setting for people to talk about death and dying, so with that awareness they might clarify what they want to do with their finite lives. Many other modalities are emerging in the Deep Adaptation field, which can be found from the links provided in the paper. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is available in <a href="http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5792/" target="_blank">pdf download</a>.</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Occasional Papers</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Occasional Papers are released by the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria in the UK to promote discussion amongst scholars and practitioners on themes that matter to our staff and students. This paper follows on from two previous Occasional Papers on the climate crisis, written by Professor Jem Bendell (#2 on Deep Adaptation) and Professor Rupert Read (#3 on the approaching end of our current civilisation)
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Authors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katie Carr MA is </span><span style="color: #302c2a; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a facilitator of collaborative, participatory learning processes with fifteen years experience within formal education settings, with communities, and within organisations. Her practice focuses on bringing conscious loving awareness to the relational space between us where connection happens, and where we can explore what it means to be human and alive together. As </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Senior Facilitator for the Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF) Katie has led the development of the community of volunteer facilitators of in-person and online gatherings, and has guided the development of practices of hosting. Katie teaches leadership at Masters level and also acts as a guide and coach to senior leaders in the voluntary, private and public sectors, who are working on the climate crisis. katie@lifeworth.com </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Jem Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership with the University of Cumbria (www.iflas.info) and Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum (www.deepadaptation.info). He works as a researcher, educator and advisor on social and organisational change, with over 25 years experience in sustainable development initiatives in over 20 countries, with business, voluntary sector and political parties. With 100+ published texts on environment and international development, including reports for the United Nations, and involvement in establishing and growing international multi-stakeholder initiatives, he was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum 2012-2017. He now specialises in leadership, communications, facilitation and currency innovation for Deep Adaptation to climate chaos. In 2018 he authored the viral Deep Adaptation paper, downloaded around a million times. See www.jembendell.com and </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jembendell" style="text-decoration-line: none;">www.linkedin.com/in/jembendell</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsy-qst-NCBkXuvtdjWyLgsAGra3MorL9ZfkFh-F_Wo694IIogQyd9X9mKdgYvLHdeY9ilABApVSaV31f0I_sIvq8lu-EuKWhwnTuEz5-5Rn2QIPr3JnP4Yu0ajeZi2DrIGhY1oOXMabRQ/s720/walk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsy-qst-NCBkXuvtdjWyLgsAGra3MorL9ZfkFh-F_Wo694IIogQyd9X9mKdgYvLHdeY9ilABApVSaV31f0I_sIvq8lu-EuKWhwnTuEz5-5Rn2QIPr3JnP4Yu0ajeZi2DrIGhY1oOXMabRQ/s320/walk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div><br /></div></span>jemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09066547245351526732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309768691110475508.post-71978891194947522592020-10-13T07:19:00.004-07:002020-11-23T08:18:04.317-08:00IFLAS Occasional paper 5 - Early recollections as a research method for finding fuller meaning in the values of wellbeingDuring a global pandemic practitioner wellbeing is an important topic, many people are working from home and delivering their usual services over video conferencing technologies. Whilst this may have some benefits for a better work life balance and is hugely reducing the environmental impact of travel, many people are feeling more isolated which can reduce wellbeing.
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This paper was written based on a workshop delivered at the International Committee of Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes (ICASSI) in July 2019. Although the workshop was delivered before the pandemic, the topic is more relevant than ever as it is looking at a research method that enhances practitioner wellbeing. Adler was a contemporary of Freud and although his idea’s are most often drawn upon for psychotherapy, they also have wider uses in areas such as coaching and professional development. This paper explores using Adler’s ideas to create a research method for self-studies particularly Living Theory which was created by Jack Whitehead. You can read more at <a href="https://www.actionresearch.net/">www.actionresearch.net</a>. This paper is focused on how creating an Adlerian syllogism based on a practitioner’s early recollection of living their values increases self-awareness and can be useful as a learning stage in understanding and identifying how to improve values-based practice.
Sonia Hutchison has written a number of papers looking at her own values-based practice in the leadership of charities and how her development of her living-theory of caring as mutuality may influence others learning. You can read more at <a href="https://cumbria.academia.edu/SoniaHutchison">https://cumbria.academia.edu/SoniaHutchison</a>. Dr. Robyn Pound based her thesis on her living-theory of alongsideness and continues to write about how her ideas have developed since gaining her doctorate in 2003. You can find out more about Dr. Robyn Pound’s recent work at <a href="http://www.spanglefish.com/RobynPound">http://www.spanglefish.com/RobynPound</a>
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