Jem Bendell

Jem Bendell is Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria. He is now taking applications for full- and part-time PhD students to work on aspects of deep adaptation, to be located in Cumbria or remotely, with a start on 1 October, 2018.

Responding to Green Positivity Critiques of Deep Adaptation

By Jem Bendell, Jem Bendell blog

Since my paper on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos came out in July 2018 and “went viral,” there have been some criticisms of the concept and what people think it implies.

April 15, 2019

Extending the Glide

By Jem Bendell, Dougald Hine, Dark Mountain Project

Looking back over the last few years, I didn’t really know what to do about this realisation that we can’t fix climate change, that so much of the impact for our civilisation is already locked in. I didn’t know how to work on that. And I realised that one of the reasons was the lack of a framework to get your head around all this.

March 21, 2018