![]() ![]() ![]() The original paper was addressed to the corporate and academic sustainability community but found a large general readership, being downloaded more than 600,000 times as of November 2019. He has since offered that as opinion, rather than fact, in a second version of the paper in 2020. ![]() In the paper, Bendell stated that near term social collapse due to climate disruption was inevitable. Bendell then chose to self-publish through the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the University of Cumbria. The paper was submitted to the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, but reviewers requested major revisions. The concept of Deep Adaptation was introduced in the 2018 paper " Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy" by University of Cumbria sustainability leadership professor Jem Bendell. The agenda includes values of nonviolence, compassion, curiosity and respect, with a framework for constructive action. The word “deep” indicates that strong measures are required to adapt to an unraveling of western industrial lifestyles. These disruptions would likely or inevitably cause uneven societal collapse in the next few decades. It presumes that extreme weather events and other effects of climate change will increasingly disrupt food, water, shelter, power, and social and governmental systems. Paper by Jem Bendell about climate breakdown and the need for 'deep adaptation.'ĭeep Adaptation is a concept, agenda, and international social movement. ![]()
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