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Jem Bendell
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Jem Bendell's personal blog at jembendell.com covers politics and philosophy. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jem Bendell's writing on climate and societal collapse, especially his Deep Adaptation paper, which commenters cite when arguing whether near-term collapse is likely.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Today's difficulties are signs of a 'metacrisis' in societies, as key systems begin to collapse. Awareness of that can change us, so we focus on what's most important, as gratitude for the capacities, and time, we have left. I've been doing that, and helping others do the same -- by sharing analysis
Most-linked posts?
- Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-04
What Hacker News says?
Somewhat related on the geoengineering front, see https://www.meer.org/global (via https://jembendell.com/2022/03/31/where-wisdom-and-geoengine... )
Comment linking /2022/03/31/where-wisdom-and-geoengineering-meet/
on “MIT researchers propose Brazil-sized fleet of “space bubbles” to cool the Earth”Submitted Some frameworks for helping each other amidst the mess as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTL;DR: Yup, we're doomed. Read or listen to David Wallace-Wells' Uninhabitable Earth[1] and/or Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation[2] and decide for yourself. Both a couple of years old, neither will leave you the slightest bit optimistic. [1] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-... [2] https://jembendell.com/category/deep-adaptation/
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on “Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (2010)”Submitted Decelerating Our Obedience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's increasingly likely that near term societal collapse is inevitable. https://jembendell.com/2018/07/26/the-study-on-collapse-they... So meet your neighbors, build local relationships, and decentralize before you're forced to while you can still specify the terms of that decentralization. Check out the urban agriculture movement. That came out of rust belt cities shutting down services and distribution. How peopl…
Comment linking /2018/07/26/the-study-on-collapse-they-thought-you-should-not-read-yet/
on “Ask HN: Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment?”Submitted Finding Joy in the Everyday Wild as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> So in other words, we don't know what their elites did. They didn't do enough. > And I'm not denying climate change. Climate change is just one symptom of the overshoot of the environment's carrying capacity (planetary boundaries). > Is it obvious? Isn't it the subject of intense scientific research? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boun... Climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation…
Comment linking /2020/07/27/debating-the-pros-and-cons-of-deep-adaptation-start-here-with-a-new-edition-of-original-paper/
on “We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse”Submitted A Climate of Trauma as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVersions of the Deep Adaptation paper https://jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/
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on “The 'climate doomers' preparing for society to fall apart”Submitted Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Adaptation: Imminent collapse in 10 years due to climate change as a story · 1 points
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