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...
- 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'.
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...
- Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
- No Comments on frambuesas chocolatadas (a cento of songs), by Maxine Flasher-Düzgünes
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.









