'Collapse followed by transformation is a common way that complex systems evolve. 'The contributors are unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom on the climate crisis and go against the grain with a provocative assessment of what we are now able to achieve and where we should focus our efforts.' Gail Bradbrook, co-founder, Extinction Rebellion I look forward to both 'deep adaptation' and 'collapsology' entering mainstream discourse, so that we might then imagine creating together, as our current paradigm crumbles.' What it does offer is togetherness in our insecurity and frameworks in our unknowing for coming to terms with and making sense of these times. 'This book is the 'red pill' of our times, offering neither certainty nor confirmation of any story you may be holding about where we are heading in the face of so many colliding crises. Satish Kumar, Editor Emeritus Resurgence & Ecologist and Founder, Schumacher College Not everyone would agree to these radical ideas but everyone needs to know about them. They also show the practical ways and means to live and act with the imagination and resilience. The thinkers, academics and activists who have contributed to this book embody the wisdom to adapt to this unprecedented catastrophe. But it's full of bright ideas for how to transmute both fear and difficulty into kind and wise ways of living and working. 'The authors of this book have courage to recognise the reality of our time and face the uncomfortable facts of climate calamity. Edited by the originator of the concept of deep adaptation, Jem Bendell, and a leading climate activist and strategist, Rupert Read, this book is the essential introduction to the concept, practice and emerging global movement of Deep Adaptation to climate chaos. They do not assume that our current economic, social and political systems can be made resilient in the face of climate change but, instead, they demonstrate the caring and creative ways that people are responding to the most difficult realization with which humanity may ever have to come to terms.

This is the first book to show how professionals across different sectors are beginning to incorporate the acceptance of likely or unfolding societal breakdown into their work and lives. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. 'Deep adaptation' refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for - and live with - a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies.

About the Book 'A new agenda for how we can prepare for societal collapse in an age of climate chaos'.

Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell