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March 14, 2022
Skeena Rathor
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Let’s become free together

This piece was written by Skeena Rathor – Extinction Rebellion co-founder, DA Forum Holding Group member, and former Labour Councillor – in response to a condemnatory review of Deep Adaptation in The Ecologist magazine, written by Chris Saltmarsh. She chooses to share this powerful response...

coliberation, diversity and decolonisation

March 13, 2022
Roberta Werdinger
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“Memoirs of a Survivor”: Doris Lessing’s remarkable novel of collapse and renewal

In this post, Roberta Werdinger looks at Doris Lessing's portrayal of societal collapse in the 1976 novel 'Memoirs of a Survivor'.

collapse

The Long Goodbye

by Kaat Vander Straeten I left my home country, Belgium, for the United States for graduate studies, and though that was supposed to be temporary, I met my future husband (who is from India) at university, and we settled around Boston, Massachusetts. When our child was three we decided...

biodiversity, extinction

frambuesas chocolatadas (a cento of songs), by Maxine Flasher-Düzgünes

me sigues con amorsaid you’re going to Lisbonthe heart-shaped candy on my tonguelate weekends in a summer hazeby the pine trees, all the times wetook several transfers on the G line in a dream i know we never meant to fall outimminent you seem to beyou’ll hang the hearts black & dull as...

poetry

February 16, 2022
Bruce Alan Mcconachie
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Popular Media Review: Democracy and Climate Mitigation, Part I

In this post, Bruce McConachie reviews the film 'The Wandering Earth' and reflects on governments' approaches to climate change.

CliFi, popular media

February 14, 2022
ayreÁnna
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as i sat reading, by ayreÁnna

as i sat readingarticles and websites alldedicated to addressing crisesof climate, communityand conscience in their countless expressions, i heard an unaccustomed sound, as if someone were typing, fingerby finger, on the porch roof. my heart leapt as i realized it wasthe...

poetry

February 7, 2022
Kimberley Hare
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My Broken Heart

by Kimberley Hare Last Tuesday, I presented at my local Accident & Emergency Department with severe chest and arm pain and shortness of breath. The doctors suspected I was having a heart attack, and so I spent the next seven hours having tests of all kinds. Eventually, they ruled out...

climate grief

January 31, 2022
Alan Heeks
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How Soul Resilience can support us with Deep Adaptation

by Alan Heeks I can still recall the mix of expansiveness, alarm, and relief that I felt when I first read the original Deep Adaptation (DA) paper, published by Jem Bendell in September 2019. One major appeal of Jem’s views for me is that he sees the climate emergency as an existential,...

inner work, personal resilience, soul journey

January 22, 2022
David Tait
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Smog, by David Tait

I don’t have long to writeso let me tell you that today’s smogis so thick that I’ve sat insidewith a headache, wearing a face-masknext to an air purifier, that the recorded figuresare double the hazardous limit, that these measurementsare probably a generous estimate, that I’m sittingwithin my dubious...

poetry

January 18, 2022
Igor Polskiy
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End of stories. Welcome to 2022!

What are the stories that we live (and die) by? In this piece, Igor Polskiy reflects on the power of stories and the call for new stories.

narratives, stories