![]() ![]() However, there can be deep adaptation, or ‘resilience, relinquishment and restoration’? But the ‘deep’ of this deep adaptation makes me exceedingly uncomfortable. Extinction of the human race is ‘real possibility,’ he says. In his work, we find a feverish anticipation that catastrophe and apocalypse are imminent and that the world is in terminal decline. ![]() Jem Bendell, a Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria, urges us to face the darkness of the end of the world and proclaims – what we all know – that there can longer be an expectation that the climate will improve. But, when I am in the company of Jem Bendell’s essays, for example, his Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy (2018) and Hope in a Time of Climate Chaos: A Speech to Psychotherapists (2019), it is all sad passions. ![]() I say to myself that hope dies and action begins is a good sign because the Deleuzians and Spinozists amongst us decry hope as a sad passion. ![]() That hope dies, is the message that underlies the motto of Extinction Rebellion: ‘Hope dies, Action begins.’ When I am less seething, I reflect on that message. Hope is extinguished, hope dies, the fires are quenched, the lights go out – families, people, animals, insects, millions and of millions of species are wiped out we are no more, the 6th mass extinction is upon us. First of all, a release of animus and ressentiment, as I hear in my imagination a chorus of doomsayers: ![]()
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