![]() ![]() When we met, Bendell was back in Totnes to care for his father, who was nearing the end of his life. He even left the Deep Adaptation Forum a couple of years back, and now lives in Indonesia, farming seaweed, writing, and playing music. ![]() Since the backlash, Bendell now rarely talks to the media. It was time, Bendell wrote, to “consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe.” ![]() That life on earth as we know it is in grave danger. As hard as “Deep Adaptation” is to read, it was a tonic for those exasperated by the failure of urgent climate action, by green-washing, by broken promises by governments, by the enduring hope in techno-salvation when it is clear that something is broken in a deeper sense. Some people, inspired by the paper, decided to quit their jobs entirely to devote themselves to the environmental movement. ![]() Suddenly, Bendell became a kind of climate celebrity, appearing alongside Greta Thunberg and Roger Hallam – a founder of XR and Just Stop Oil – at events and summits. It inspired and fed directly into the vision of Extinction Rebellion (XR) and led to the formation of a Deep Adaptation social movement, with a network of thousands across the world. Over a million people downloaded the paper (an extraordinarily high number for an academic publication), and it has now been translated into many languages, including Chinese, Hungarian, Greek and Russian. ![]()
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