I wondered how we might describe ourselves, so that we can recognise each other, connect with each other, and support each other. JemBot: “Certainly, the development of critical wisdom through real-life experiences and relationship building is a major focus in Jem Bendell’s ‘Breaking Together. JemBot: “In the context of ‘Breaking Together,’ Jem Bendell’s ecolibertarian approach is about building self-reliance, decreasing dependency on harmful systems, and fostering communities that are more in tune with nature and each other. If you have been tracking this decline, “Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse” by Dr.

Modern humans have cleared as much forest in the last 120 years, as the previous 9000 years, with rates rising since the early 1970s, which correlates with the rise in global temperatures. On the one hand, there are efforts to take our freedoms and money under the cover of climate actions. One such person in modern times may be Professor Jem Bendell of Cumbria University, whose new book, Breaking Together: A Freedom-Loving Response to Collapse, was released on 9 May 2023.

I’m sometimes critical that identity politics might be distracting the left from the need for system change – which is the most important thing we need at this moment, imo, and I’m still a little bit scared of that. These final chapters are all about freedom (as you might expect from the book’s subtitle) and the choice to first be free in oneself, and thence to help nurture a free society.

It involves cultivating positive, prosocial behaviors within communities, fostering a culture of collaboration over competition, and ensuring everyone’s basic needs are met as a collective responsibility. JemBot: “Indeed, the relationship between ecolibertarian actions and social liberty is both profound and intricate. Dan: Please go deeper into the subject of how critical wisdom may be attained in practice, through pathways that provide live learning experiences through real relationship building. Banks create our money supply through loans and as all their earnings aren’t spent back into circulation, there always need to be more loans to top up the money supply. He says we need ‘freedom from progress’, that deeply entrenched Modernist idea that material progress is an unquestionable good and makes our present society superior to those that have gone before.That said, please center yourself as you engage with this brilliant, heartfelt, disturbing and often heartbreaking story of the possible futures that will touch everyone of the 8 billion of us. External applications are just as crucial, especially when it comes to fostering real change in our relationships with one another and with nature. Hopefully the corrupt political system will fall too before we lose all of our God given rights eg the coming of the ‘15 minute cities’, the looming World Health Treaty driven by the globalists in the WHO and and the WEF , the indoctrination of our educational system , the weaponisation of Big Pharma against the people, the new ‘Online Act’, the new Police Powers Act re the right to protest, the ULEZ scheme , the increasing surveillance ….

This might mean taking an online course, reading books on cognitive sciences, or engaging in debates. The list I was providing from ‘Breaking Together’ that detailed pathways to attaining critical wisdom didn’t include a fifth point as such. But the evidence I present in Breaking Together supports the view that we have reached a point where most modern societies, while continuing to function on the surface, are already in the early stages of their collapse. I do not have the book but read the review as none of my neighbours thought that it would be worth their while coming round for a climate assembly in the garden to discuss carbon over tea and cake. It is the fact that all these things upon which industrial consumer societies rely are breaking down right now all at the same time.The resulting analysis is bracing, radical, and immensely helpful for those seeking to live a purposeful life in an age of societal breakdown. Jem Bendell argues that reclaiming our freedoms is essential to soften the fall and regenerate the natural world. JemBot: “In ‘Breaking Together,’ Jem Bendell emphasizes the importance of nonviolence and compassion. It might also help refresh people’s memories (even mine) and produce some usefully concise summaries.

Scholarship on past civilisational collapses shows us it is hard to say when because societal collapse is a process – not an event. Despite experiencing more creativity, compassion, collaboration and urgency, in these last few years, and engaging volunteers around the world, we have often been condemned as apathetic doomers. if you're going to say that it makes life harder for drivers, then I don't see the problem with that - cars ruin everything). Hands up if you have also experienced difficult emotions because of your awareness of what is happening and what is to come? This could involve joining book clubs, discussion groups, or even partaking in critical online forums.It involves actively working to dismantle power-over relationships and replace them with models of equitable co-existence. One mistake establishment climatologists have made is to downplay the role of deforestation in reducing the bacteria and pollen that help to form the clouds that cool. Speaking about the ecological wisdom of her Native American culture, Lyla June told me that “we weren’t just born this cool. Some people like to think they will be one of those transcendent beings, or might have their ear, or agree with what they do, or at least not be the ones being ‘fixed’ by the superior humans. He says we need the ‘freedom to collapse and grow’ in our personal lives, to become “doomsters” (as opposed to ‘doomers’), to liberate ourselves from the old stories of self that keep us enslaved to Imperial Modernity.