The DAF blog aims to bring together a variety of voices and perspectives to speak to how we are adapting to disruption and collapse. We welcome contributions.
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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,...
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...