…Īround a year ago, a video of a talk by a British professor called Jem Bendell appeared on Rachel’s Twitter feed. It’s vital for them to learn “skills we’ll be able to use in the natural world when all our systems have broken down,” she says. “But they do accept that food will be difficult to find.”Įvery six weeks, she takes her two youngest daughters on an 450-mile round trip from their home in Sheffield to an organic farm in South Wales, where they learn how to forage for food. “I don’t say to them that in five years we won’t be here,” she tells me. Rachel is unsure about how much to tell her three daughters. “I don’t see things lasting any longer than that.” Within the next five to 10 years, she says, climate change is going to cause it to fall apart. Instead, we are facing a "near-term" breakdown of civilisation - near-term meaning within about a decade. In it, he argues that it is too late for us to avoid "the inevitability of societal collapse" caused by climate change. Jem Bendell, a professor in sustainable leadership at the University of Cumbria, is the author of an academic article, Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy, which has become the closest thing to a manifesto for a generation of self-described "climate doomers".
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