I remember the day in 2017 sitting on my verandah reading an article by a climate scientist who set out exactly why it was too late. You just couldn’t argue with it, there was just no doubt. The information sunk in it was very emotional, a sign that you’ve got it, you have to grieve, then act. I moved to high ground and began acting locally to do what I can. No UN, WEF, WCF or any organisation of any kind will do anything. It is now up to every individual to accept what is and do what they can locally, from the ground up. No one can avoid this responsibility.
Instant new sub: I had my climate awakening 20 years ago but never formally joined any climate aware or activitst organisation. I soon realised nobody wants to hear the bad news which seems so far away from their current expectation of life for themselves or their family. I have not flown for 20 years, I buy a lot less consumer crap and eat better and live life without media domination. Your documentary was a random TH-cam recommendation that became a watch from beginning to end and I felt compelled to leave a positive comment. Thank you for your communication and presentation, your new life experience and how we come to terms with ourselves and our world, and our lifestyle and it’s contradiction to life in the wider world. Action is the antidote to despair, my action is personal and one to one, Hope is illusionary, acceptance is peace.
Well stated. I first realized our situation in the late 60's and have been observing it worsening ever since. I like what you said "Action is the antidote to despair, my action is personal and one to one, Hope is illusionary, acceptance is Peace." A quote from Sting goes "Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one." And there are no magic wands. Peace my Friend, Namaste
This is an extraordinary piece of work. Using all your skills from the old world to help rebuild our new. I worked with Skeena in XR and I remember her telling me that you had invited her to work on something big and she was excited. Since then I joined the Insulate Britain campaign and then Just Stop Oil. Went to prison. Twice. Am now volunteering in a climate emergency centre in my hometown which I cofounded. It’s been a struggle (family don’t support my actions) but so liberating. And I have met the most wonderful people. Totally connected. And now this film. I’m so proud of you and happy to be a part of this awakened community. We will keep working, sharing this terrible news and supporting one another in our grief. Thank you for your service to humanity 🙏🏻
Yet the leftists despise "backwards" rural people who live on small farms much closer to nature than 99% of their own. The irony. Will he mention the Younger Dryas, Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period? What about the regular huge volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts that wipe out huge regions, dim the sun and drop temperatures almost overnight? Most don`t because they`re uneducated fanatics. Does he know what mega solar events do to the gasses in the atmosphere? Will he ignore China & India to avoid being "racist"? How much money is he making while pretending to be a holy monk?
If you look at one of the early comments replied to by Jem, it is TH-cam that has applied these. I think ' Documentary ' videos have it done as an algorithm feature.
@@ppetal1 I use adblocker ultimate with the firefox web browser. Doesn't cost penny. I consider advertising to be a form of pollution. You shouldn't have to pay to be free of it.
A lot of people are faced with the truth, and when they are faced with it, they bully and shamed the people who are talking about it from making them uncomfortable. And their knee-jerk reaction is shaming. Talk about collapse and you’re an unhinged conspiracy theorist and a doomer with mental health problems. Problem is most people _don’t want to hear the truth_ and will actively avoid it, and try and prevent other people from speaking on it. The normalcy bias is so strong, and it’s frankly suicidal.
We have heard the message loudly for 65 years+. We need people that DO things to mitigate the stress and help the recovery, not pander to affluent arts majors.
Welp, that long comment I left under yours disappeared but I’m still getting notifications. Weird. People also deny the truth, and don’t want to hear it.
True. It is rare that any of this makes it into the mainstream, or even onto popular podcasts. Then we face 'visibility filtering' by bigtech for being too alarmist for their corporate-funded 'fact checkers'. Something I mentioned in the concluding of a project to warn policy makers: jembendell.com/2024/07/03/no-more-warnings-needed-an-intransigent-managerial-class-must-be-sidestepped/
Thanks to all of you who have tried to talk about the environment to others, and tried again... Being told that "everyone has their cause" so why must you bring everyone else down... etc. ad nauseum. And still get up every morning, awed by the beauty and life and sounds and smells of nature... and smile and cry and begin again... You are appreciated.
Only through destruction can you have rebirth. I never tried to convince anyone of what was apparent to me. I just told them that we will see our end in this lifetime. I sold everything I owned in CA and moved to northern Thailand. I’ve been able to address my medical issues with natural and alternative medicine. It’s been enlightening to learn from locals on how to live from the land.
I am a journalist and have covered several Climate Conferences in the past decade. I lost hope of any positive outcome from such conferences. We will not see a solution from the political or business leaders. The problems are on the system's roots and it's impossible to correct them, and remain with the same system. We need a new way of being on this planet (maybe old ways of being...). I totally agree with Jem Bendell and I wanna thank him for this inspiration to seek solutions at the community level. I hope more and more people will become aware that the collapse of industrial civilization is unavoidable.
I realised as a child around 45 years ago that humanity lives in a giant man made life support machine, all the systems that had been put in place since the second world war amounted to a controlled experiment to see how many humans could be sustained in such a system. I have tried for most of my adult life to resist being a part of the system, I haven’t always achieved this but still keep trying to avoid it where I can. I feel that the shift has now reached the point where it can not be stopped by anyone or anything, but I do believe that when we get to the other side of what is coming we will live in a far more sustainable way.
What’s fascinating is the psychology behind why society is not taking this seriously. Because I’ve always grown things since a child. I developed a unique sensitivity in regards to feeling our planet. Decades ago, I developed a suntan lotion for my plants because I noticed even the most sun, loving vegetables, experiencing solar stress. a few years ago we bought a small property and I just have known for decades that things are getting warmer and will continue to get warmer faster than anyone realizes. So what did I do? I started planting plants that are wanted to grow zones higher than we are designated here. And the frightening thing? A local culture specialist. Just told me that our zone has already changed to 10 a or 10 B when it was. Just 9B. So I guess my instincts are right on?
Because most people are in a Mouse Wheel where the system put them in. They can't get out of there nor they are able to see their own nose. They can't help themselves.
This film gave me a deep sense of peace and acceptance as I'm coming back from an illness and finding new direction as energy returns to do the work we share. Grateful to have come across this today - thanks, Jem and Skeena!
I'm on the second listening to breaking together. Things are happening fast now and your book came at the perfect time for me. Thank you so much for all of your work and sacrifice.
I live in New Mexico, USA and have been meditating a while now (I’m an old hippie). I kept having the feeling I should comment a Buddhist aspiration I say OFTEN [because it often applies]. I’ve messed it up enough and it’s mostly paraphrased yet I feel connected to it. If you are of a mind to add it to any of your rituals… that would be great. In all circumstances may I seek to awaken compassion and wisdom. Peace!
I have listened / followed you from Sydney Australia and have since moved to a small village by the sea in Finland. It is a breath of fresh air to actually hear the truth regardless how bad it nay be. You have definitely changed my views on life and the importance of love for others.
Mr Cooper, my fourth grade science teacher in 1976 warned us about this-and here we are. Nobody has ever been willing to sit and listen to hear. My warnings is just too terrifying for them.
In 76, they said it was an ice age that was coming. In the 80s, it was hole in the ozone . Then I think they discovered there always was a hole in the ozone. Then global warming, but that didn't describe what was happening, so now it's climate change. Co2 is .04 % of the atmosphere. The only thing people agree with is that a cleaner world makes sense. These climate models are not absolute. I see a lot of green new deal through the comments. What would that really accomplish . Like Carl Sagan said, if you can't get China and India on board with such a plan it wouldn't work. And they're busy pulling there population out of poverty so they will do what they have to do. The world isn't ending in 10 years because of climate change.
Why is it the people who give climate hysteria also give transgender hysteria or right wing racists hysteria ....covid hysteria. Are they correct. ? Or hysterical 🤔
@@Whowhatwherewhen5 First, 7 million people died of COVID and Republicans died at higher rates then Dems, so the GOP shouldn't have pooh-poohed it. Second, racism has been a real plague on society for 500 years, and although it's much better, it still isn't fixed, so that's not "hysteria" either. Meanwhile, thousands of research studies and intensifying climate disasters prove that the climate crisis is real and threatens our future, so calling that "hysteria" just signals that you don't know the science. Take care.
@@Whowhatwherewhen5ikr. Everyone is kinda stuck in the way of thinking through the infomation we get. Too little,narrows our perspectives. Too much, incapacitates us. All I can say, is Thunderbolt Project, Dan Winters, Schauberger, Kolisko, Passio, Caroline Myss, Michelle Gibson and many more. The world is more wonderous than we can dare to imagine. The things we can measure and quantify mighy gives us the map. But it is not the territory.
Thank you so much Jem. I deeply relate to your experience and to your change in direction. I started my quest at 17, and exchanged a life in London for one in rural Mexico. In year 2000 I moved onto my small holding to become a self-sufficient farmer. For me it is the only way to make a difference. Un abrazo fuerte, hermano.
Since the 1960's environmentalist have been trying to alarm us into taking action to save the environment. And expert after expert have been telling us "all is ok, it's all sustainable". We've been hearing that slogan for over 60 years and things have been getting worse. Why" We have short memories, and after the experts tells us "all is ok and it's sustainable" our minds relax and in a few months we've forgotten the fight - forever. The word "sustainable" has morphed over the years to mean "kicking the can way the hell down the road out of sight and mind." Over 90% of the commercial fish in the ocean are gone. There are over 10,000 desalinations plants sucking out water from the ocean and returning the salt back to the ocean. Fracking has destroyed our fresh ground water... and the list goes on and on... Just where do you all think this is going to end?
hope that a civilisation living unsustainably can carry on living the same life but somehow in a sustainable way, people hope for the impossible. it also really helps if you are completely uneducated on the topic, which would appear to be most people.
The Green New Deal is a first step in bringing humans together in cooperation for each others health and well being. There may be others, but bringing humans together to care about more than our individual "success" is core
Funny how all the supposed solutions are by "doing more." Maybe do LESS (drive, eat, laundry....) It wont matter that much, but it sure is easier! The desire to be "useful" drives most consumption and waste. Be not ambitious, but seek that which is already there. Hear the Bodi.
The Bodhi tree was/is a type of banyan tree that drops these little fruits, sort of figs the size of peas. My mom used to hate 'em and always bitch about them. It makes me laugh that the tree my mother disliked so much is the actual bodhi tree.
36:00 I feel the same way, when i enter a city. It is, as if you can feel the stress and negative vibes of everybody. The polution, the noise...absoulutely disgusting
I live in a compact city In a mixed-use neighborhood where I can walk to just about everything. When I go to the suburbs which are so sprawling and wasteful and so car dependent, that’s when I feel disgust. I guess we’re all disgusted by something.
Suburb culture is partially City living and partially pseudo country living. Like driving further into the country and paying four times as much as you should for a pumpkin because you bought it directly from a farm.
I have been having very difficult conversations with family and some friends about this for several years now. Most really don't want to talk about it because the inability to change what is coming makes most people extremely uncomfortable. The speed at which climate has been changing versus what we were told has made me extremely uncomfortable. I am deeply morning the world I grew up in and wanted my children and grandchildren to be able to live in. Now, simply *living* in the future will be a struggle; not the distant future but very near future.
Same. I am terrified for the kind of world my kids and their children will experience. It's happening now and I'm sick over it. If last summer didn't get people's attention I don't know what will. They all think their air conditioners will keep them safe and it's business as usual. It's totally bonkers.
Thank you for this discussion - this serious and needed continuance of looking at what is and accepting with brave dignity that we are called to play a part in speaking truth with care and love and respect.
Great Doc, literally! Hi Jem I met you a number of years ago at ….I think Sacred Arts or Unicorn Camp, where the whole camp was devoted to this subject/collapse etc. i hated that camp. I have spent my whole conscious life eg age 16-59 trying so hard with the environment in the face of ever accelerating global destruction. The “message”, of what I knew any way left me with a paralysing gnawing fear for a number of years. It was about my children and their imminent destruction and that of their generation. I chose perhaps 2 years ago now to really talk to them about their feelings around the collapse. They had such strength and such acceptance that my fear dissolved. I now live doing my small part. I live in some acres in Kent, my land has always been devoted to the wildlife, I listen quietly to the whisperings of the universe. I honour tiny moments. I cannot stop the march but I will play my small part. So glad to see you well and happy in Bali, the grace of the Balinese can teach us much. So lovely to see Katie too. Blessings on you both, go well ❤️❤️❤️
Animal agriculture uses 83% of farmland and only provides 18% of calories. When we switch to a plant based food system, we can restore/reforest 76% of farmland AND be able to feed everyone. -J. Poore, Oxford, journal Science Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO
@@lynnelee4390 Why do you believe that? I live on a veganic permaculture farm in a rural part of a third world country. We use living mulch (Butón de Oro / Mexican Sunflower) that is much more powerful than chicken manure, and we also complete the nutrient cycles with humanure. We can grow plants without exploiting other animals. Do you think animal abuse is wrong? 925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion unnaturally bred animals on farms are given enough human edible food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota
@@lynnelee4390 algae is our only hope to sequester all the extra co2. Oil and coal are from algae. Algae can sequester 100 gigatons of co2 per year - if only algae is focused on.
The reality is that 76% is inarable land, meaning we don't do anything to it but we get a return. People, and I did when vegan, have to stop thinking it's just calories that need replacing. It is not. Like the gelatine that holds together your toilet paper or the activated carbon to filter your water or sugar, it's more than calories that need replacing. 83 minus 76 is 6%, so that would mean 6% of the land gives three times the calories, or another crop in its place would have to, arable land and what it can grow is 24% of the land, that we douse in pesticides and synthetic fertilisers and have literally destroyed the soil and turned it into dirt, so that it flies away in the wind, while we suck dry aquifers. "Agriculture" is the leading cause because humans that live there use it to live, if using the FAO : The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognizes the critical role of livestock in supporting livelihoods, especially for poor communities. Here are some key points: Livestock and Livelihoods: Livestock production is essential for around 60 percent of rural households in developing countries. These households include smallholder farmers, agro-pastoralists, and pastoralists. Approximately 1.7 billion poor people depend on livestock for their livelihoods. 70 percent of those employed in the livestock sector are women. In summary, FAO works to enhance animal production systems sustainably, improve the quality of animal products, and uplift the livelihoods of poor communities while meeting consumer needs. Livestock contributes significantly to global food security and economic well-being, benefiting millions of people worldwide. So in affect it helps low income families to have animals, for you to say that "animal agiculture" is the main cause probably means all of our consumption in the modern world and this is categorically false, take soy for example. 92 percent of human usable soy is used for humans, 7% whole bean for animals and 1% of the oil, they take 99% of the waste, like all seed oils and other crops have waste. Humans take 6% of whole bean but 87% is processed into oil, which is in everything, either that or palm oil. Animals get fed more crop waste than what is grown for them and if in USA it's around one third of the corn crop. One crop, so no, it does not matter if animals are on land we can't do anything too, having other animals on it, wild ones isn't really going to change much environmentally. The one third of one crop and 8% of soy is not going to replace all the calories, or the rest of the inedible parts either that we use all of. The irony now is the more crop based people there are, the cheaper it is to raise animals, caged ones too.
Here I live in the north of Argentina. Trying to stay concerning about this. The first world must forgive external debts in poor countries so we can do something. Plastic must be forbidden. We must use public transport and live minimalistic way and restore what we can in the less natural environment we have
A mass extinction event was on a dream I had this year 2024 where I was shown catastrophies happening everywhere in the world. Cataclysm would destroy much of earth everywhere. The most interesting part of the dream was that aftermath. It was actually beatiful. Money didn't exist anymore. Comunities would thrive everywhere. A new system of sharing knlwledge and service would be the new economy. Everyone was more spiritual and loving and caring. It was beatiful to see.
I see myself in a lot of Jem's opinions and thoughts, especially the one about feeling alienated in one's own society. Here are some random ideas I've had. Basically, from a marketing standpoint, the idea should probably be one of 'pessimistic action'. "Yeah, hi, welcome to XR, we're pessimists but really that just means being realistic about the future of humanity. It's going to suck to change as much as we're going to have to, but it needs to be done, so let's just be "Pessimistic Together" and take action to save ourselves from the many of the even worse futures out there". So it's basically a message of "We know you're mostly not ready for what we have to say, but the world will change, very soon, and once you realize that what we've been saying was the truth all along, come join us! We're a brutally realistic bunch, but that's what it takes to survive this mess." Toxic/naive optimism needs to be purged from this world. It's just not constructive. "Doing things because they need to be done" is a message people can get behind. as it resonates with the working people, and human "itchyness to do something all the time", shall we say. Please use whatever ideas above at your own pleasure!
Yep, in the book I talk about positive pessimism. In a recent talk in Hungary, I went further to recognize the full power of sacred pessimism. jembendell.com/2024/04/29/sacred-pessimism-a-talk-to-mark-5-years-of-a-new-movement/
I’ve got the book and showed my dad the letter. It didn’t change his perspective (not because it’s a bad letter, it’s just denial’s easier). It wasn’t that he didn’t believe it per se, but he said he doesn’t know what to believe anymore. I can understand that because he never looks into what scientists are saying. It bewilders me, on such a vital topic, people’s aversion to allotting time to have a proper look into it, especially seeing as there are experts like Jem that have collated evidence from various disciplines into a single book that’s easy to understand if you go into it with an open mind. Loved the book btw 👌
My father was up front with me when I asked him if man-made climate change was real. "Yes." was his answer. When I asked what can be done about it, "Not much." This was 40 years ago.
It's not his fault, it's by design. Ever notice that even the leftest, most progressive news outlets just... don't really talk about climate change? There's no effort - at all - going on in society to try and inoculate against denial, right-wing propaganda or conspiracy theories. And that's because the rich own the media. They have an agenda to just... tone it down. Your dad is a victim of intentionally bad education.
Yep, the corporate corrupting of the scientific process, its communication and application, has led to many people distrusting authority on matters that involve science so they are then mislead by opportunists on social media, or disengage. I have had to accept that this distortion of knowledge and communication is itself an aspect of societal collapse and I will continue to share insights from rational, diligent, systemic and salient analysis without the likelihood it either makes a significant impact at scale in society or reaches all the people most important to me. It is why I gave a whole chapter to the topic of 'critical wisdom' soundcloud.com/jem-bendell/freedom-to-know-critical
It shouldn’t bewilder you because honestly most of the people who are old enough to understand or do something about it are also old enough to know they won’t be here when s*** gets real. Hard to care about something you aren’t going to personally suffer with.
This documentary resonates very much with how I feel about the changes that are coming. Not addressing the root-causes ( a systemic shift is needed ) and carrying on the way we have done for centuries will not bring about the change the earth needs right now. It's like talking to a brick wall in my opinion. It will have to come from local incentives. Small endeavours. Communities discovering how to work together to get things done, where everybody's effort is appreciated as a part of the whole. Thank you for sharing your insights. It means a lot... 🙏
Excellent. The first prerequisite for effective action is public awareness and the courage to face our frightening reality. I have lost friends who - lacking the guts to face reality because to do so would demand action - got angry when climate is mentioned. No surrender!
The terminus of walking the path to enlightenment is the Cave at the End of It All. Weary travellers reaching the cave entrance will find a flickering hearthfire beckoning from within. And, upon crossing the threshold, and coming full circle, the traveller will realize that once again, home has been redeemed. It has been an awfully long walk, from the cave mouth to the City of Gold and back, but now the journey is at an end, and the homefire awaits. Cast off your raiments, discard your baubles, and squat beside the campfire. We all belong here, and always have. And never should have left.
The solution for the crises can be only on an individual level. Each individual can adopt a life of minimalism and try to live in harmony with nature. I still drive my car which uses gas and there is plastic use when I buy groceries. It is already out of control but we have to start somewhere and make small sacrifices. Nuclear war is a bigger risk and it seems like civilization has developed a death wish.
A little activism helps the dispair: stop or reduce your meat and dairy consumption. Stop buying stuff packaged in plastic- -plastic water bottles are incredibly stipid and the grocer has cases of these polluting, disgusting things! Buy quality clothing that will last and then learn to mend them! Stop driving around for pleasure or driving one mile to get a one pound loaf of bread. Stop flying on vacation and learn about the town or city you live in. Plant a garden. THINK about your carbon footprint EVERY time you buy something.
Better late than never for sure. Realizing how destructive a typical act like shopping or vehicular travel is surely is an initial part of waking up. Of course that doesn't mean it will end just because it is non sustainable. Soon enough (an eventuality) folks will find collapse will rob them of the fantasy of escape into consumerism and holding on to the status quo. It will be too late to find the personal center that had required attention for many years. So start now. Sit on the floor till it hurts. That may be the beginning of activism.
Meat and dairy? Grow up. Stop driving for pleasure. Stop running your AC to 65 when it's 100 out. Pick up someone else's trash. Everyone wants everyone else to do the work but they themselves don't budge. No one wants to make any sacrifices. Especially Westerners and especially USA citizens
Increase you meat intake if it's not the daily recommended amount, we feed more crop waste than feed we grow for them and the little bit we do grow specifically for them, is not going to replace all that we get and crop based is all around profit and increased turnover. Eat the fat, beef or lamb is mostly grass fed on non arable land, so it's the cleanest food available and most environmentally friendly. Stop eating crop foods that are destroying the planet and eat less, overall.
A small percent of an eight billionth of 6 percent of the issue doesnt doesn't do much. Blaming individuals is literally fossil fuel marketing. If we don't entirely shut down the top 100 polluters who represent over 70% of the issue there's almost no point whatsoever to individual efforts (many of which are not actually having any meaningful impact and in some cases are exacerbating the problem. Even those you mentioned. Yes, we should be examining a "less" economy. Less need for pointless jobs and businesses. Less need for massive commuting. Less need for industrial plastics and fossil fuels and mining. But we should be examining these issues as a collective society. Not as individuals. And we should be demanding such societal efforts and condemning anyone who pretends individual actions amount to much. As he said in the film, most people are dependent on the societal structure. Asking that person not to depend on it is completely unrealistic.
We needed to stop the greed decades ago to have a slight chance of surviving. Pretty clear to me we're on our own...no loving all-powerful god is going to pull off a miracle...
...Beryl, hurricane was the earliest hurricane to form and within a couple days became a cat 4 then a cat 5 hurricane killing several people and causing irreparable damage.
I sincerely hope people grasp the fact that there are those that want to play god are diddling with the weather right now as is increasingly now being admitted. Enough said
Big long term fan that have bought your Breaking Together book. Love you have put a complete yet brief enough version in video form to share for the people who would not read the book but watch a video. Also love how your is one of the very few messages that moves further from clichés and propose future attitudes for the future that is to come. This also dissects the meaning of hope and dismantle its naive interpretations that too often are coopted by the current system to stall any change. I'll be spreading the word while also trying to align my life and principles around this new reality. Greetings from Mexico.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Aldo Leopold said living with an ecological “education” meant living in a world of wounds….. I’ve been living there for many years, trying to find a….let’s call it a path. I feel constrained to silence sooooo often, just to let a little joy bubble in the lives of those I love when it’s already in such short supply. It can leave me lonely, and feeling like a liar-by-omission. This time with you has been a huge help. So again, thank you.
Thank you for your honesty and clarity. I do not think most humans have the wiring to comprehend the enormity of the climate crisis, and even if they did, what to do at this late stage for most??? More immediate concerns prevail.. We, as a species, have done a huge no-no, we have soiled our own nest. Mother Nature seems to be of the mind that Enough is Enough and she has to weed out this noxious species, h. Sapiens Destructivus,. I only hope some of the other creatures survive
Sending lots of love to you, Jeremy. And thank you for sharing your path. It creates peace to watch this video. I appreciate much having met you at a beautiful place! Friederike from former Alexandros.
Tis true. And there is nothing we can do. It is magical we don't know what happens after collapse. In fact-- this idea that collapse is some time down the road is the only part of our collective narrative that is bonkers. The temps are cresting to 90's here in Seattle this weekend. The west coast is burning from a heat wave. We're in it. Mutual aid and recognizing that our losses are what connects us is a gift of perspective. Better to be a calm beam of light than pull your hair out.
Thank you Jem, your an inspiration. I am currently working towards a Degree in Sustainability and was starting to feel overwhelmed and questioning everything. You have re kindled my passion and reminded me of my abilities to overcome difficulties. "As Necessity is the mother of invention", Plato. Being stewards of this planet, I feel it's our duty to help find balance... at least do our best to. Anna
Very good! Thank you. I feel less alone by watching. May everyone allow everything to come up and be touched and transformed in a positive way by this.
Great documentary and thank you for your dedication. The core issue on our planet is overpopulation. We are adding close to 100 million people to the planet everyday and unfortunately no matter the amount of environmental initiatives, it'll never be enough to offset the amount of people added to the planet everyday. Millions of acres of land required to house and feed all those people who rely on a massive amount of resources to just sustain the most basic of lifestyle. The greatest environmental and humanitarian effort anyone can undertake can be done from the comfort of their own home in deciding not to have children for a period of time until the population is drastically and naturally decreased to a sustainable number that not only considers the health of human life but the health of fauna and flora. 🌍✌️
Thank you, the filming team and Jem are doing such an important, meaningful work! May you be able to produce many other films and spread the true state of our beloved planet! May we all be courageous enough to put our actions in service of others.
My sister and one of her dear friends went on a vacation to Bali. They returned home, having experienced the deep gratitude of every single person they encountered in Bali for the gift of life, all the resources that the land gives and their constant joy and peace. My sister seems like a lighter being, and if it is possible for her, I'd say is even more giving than before. She sought out this trip perhaps because she already had a kinship with the people's appreciation for life.
Hoping listening to this will give me perspective on whether I should reconsider current thoughts of "maybe I should just go buy a house". A decision I've been putting off for decades. Not getting any younger & house sharing sucks. Would prefer to join a co-housing community, but they're just too few & far in between in the UK. Born at the wrong time.
I fully understand this career and academia pressure because I come from South Africa. But in my early thirties, unlike the rest of my generation, I gave up job and career possibilities and started travelling. In the end I landed up in Switzerkand where training in crafts is very well developed and well paid. This leads to much less pressure for individuals to go to a university even if one is not made for acedemia. This policy brings a lot of peace and satisfaction and a very high standard in practical jobs. This academia for everyone is a scary mass sickness
Yup Singapore dietitians say that eating the same food every meal for every day for a year combined with a daily canned formula milk is enough nutrients for an adult!
Yup Singapore dietitians say that eating the same food every meal for every day for a year combined with a daily canned formula milk is enough nutrients for an adult! Such is degree trained dietitcians!
Yup Singapore dietitians say that eating the same food every meal for every day for a year combined with a daily canned formula milk is enough nutrients for an adult! Such is educated dietitians!
i move off grid in the winter to Mexico from Canada....my reduction in consumption of nearly everything is staggering; albeit the fuel it takes to get me here . I love living so simply and wish I new that this could have been a goal of mine ages ago. Finding harmony with our world truly rewards us with an inner sense of peace. I hope it is not all for nothing.
"Dreary England" is supposed to get dryer with a slowing Amoc and with that the thermal equator is supposed to move south towards Bali, so that would become hotter.
All my adult life, we have been going from economic disaster to economic disaster. I won’t say “catastrophe” because things such as war, 9/11 or natural disasters have only had an economic or cultural reverb on me, rather than loss or trauma. So, I have learned that I can adapt to life style changes. This fear of not having access to modern conveniences and my favorite forms of recreations was so all consuming in 2008, but honestly, I know now, I can take on more. Granted, now the fear centers around getting adequate medical help for my husband rather than how many times I can buy a boba tea in a week. I fear the collapse of our modern healthcare because that certainly means catastrophe for me. You can change my expectations on my diet, shelter, clothes, social standing and travel, but I do cling to pharmaceuticals. Will people choose fast fashion over medical aid? Probably
Anas ibn Malik reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."
Congratulations on the life change. I sure pray we all smarten up. I wish I didn’t see the plastic bottle of water on your desk next to your computer this made me shiver 😢
Beautiful film. I was struck by how the XR messenger was personally attacked so that they could avoid dealing with the truth of her message of reality. Also the words of Joanna Macy so strong and simple and true.
Hi Gem. I’m really interested in how ritual has changed your life. It sounds like it’s brought about a massive shift from the anthropomorphic world view to a more animistic sense of being and reciprocity.
@@LizabettRusso 👋 there are 2 books I can recommend for further reading. Root and Ritual by Becca Piastrelli and Rituals for Life by Isla McCleod. One American and one British
Speaking of rituals, how about that Extinction Rebellion protest? Singing, like they were in a church singing hymns, and getting arrested, like they were doing something worthwhile. Bunch of idiots.
@@davidjohnzenocollins I think they hope to raise awareness by peaceful protest rather than the oft destructive and disruptive attention sought by Stop Oil. Perhaps it’s a way for them to feel part of a collective voice… I’m not a member I’m just thinking how people choose a response that feels right to them.
What he doesn't mention here and should be noted is that the very rich and very powerful feel that they will be isolated and protected when the planet they've neglected and exploited comes crashing down around the rest of us. He doesn't mention climate refugees or the disasters that will continue occuring will be costly, something the rich and powerful has no use in continuing supplying as they reap a greater profit for themselves. Filling their storehouses sorta speak. Another thing not mentioned and I pray it's not an intention of governments around the globe. Is rather than change how they live or come up with solutions that are workable but hard, will be reducing the global population and you know it won't be them, it will be us. As today I watch in horror, disbelief and great anger at a genocide that's happening in Gaza. There's this nagging part within me, an alarm that started ringing, is this population of people just the start? 7/7/2024
32:28 I don’t really get why she’s criticising(?) Jem’s privilege, ironically sat in a big posh house while doing so. I mean so what if he’s privileged, he’s left his profession and doing a massive amount to help everyone. Privileged is a loaded descriptor and, to me anyway, that speech sounded like it was adding unnecessary negativity, raising a subject that wasn’t relevant or called for. I probably misinterpreted what she was implying though, could someone enlighten me?
Personally I think it was a good thing to at least mention privilege, and the fact that Jem was able to move to Bali, which is literally one of the most desirable places to live in the whole world (remember the movie Eat, Pray, Love?). Not everybody is able to do that.
He hasn’t gone there for a knees up. He’s developing a school for regenerative farming, he’s helping people that really want/need the help. I’m not saying he’s doing it completely selflessly either, the way of life there could be a big influencing factor in his decision but so what? He’s tried informing The West for years to no avail. I imagine directly helping those in need who appreciate it is far more rewarding. I just see calling him privileged undermines his efforts considering the amount he’s already contributed and continues to do so. On the other hand I could be reading too much into it.
@@umalaurenbowman7276 Not everybody is able to come up the way my husband and I have either, but it wasn't our privilege that got us here. In fact, I'd say being discriminated against was part of our struggle. People say I'm privileged to own 40 acres, but I worked 2 jobs for 20 years to get here. My husband and I pooled our resources by communicating and making compromises, I studied and learned how to buy a fixer upper, pay extra on the principal, minimize all other bills, no cable, no subscriptions, no clothes, no restaurants, no vacations, even no trash service at one point. When we sold, we were homeless for 6 weeks waiting to close on our new property, which still needed heating, plumbing, and insulation before winter. Every last penny was used to purchase our new place. We had to get groceries on our credit cards. Our car was robbed and our shoes stolen. We were locked in our storage unit by employees who didn't like our pale skin color, my husband's bald head, and my dreadlocks. We've been at our property 9 months and still haven't paid off the credit card, and my shoes are barely existing, water and thorns come up through the holes in the bottom. There was not much privilege in my story, more oppression if you ask me. But sure, call it privileged when a white person gets something amazing that they've worked hard for.
Thx for engaging in the issues raised. I chose Bali as it suits my personal needs, while also enabling me to create something (the regen farm school) that I could never do in a more expensive country. That is because I reached a point where I wanted to enact my ideas not just spread them. By working at the level of farming, I am learning more clearly why the systems remain as they are... the economics is terrible for anything at the base of a supply chain, which makes internalizing environmental and social costs impossible for most. Therefore the farm and school cant charge our participants, and we rely on donations to offer what we do and to develop further with accommodation for our paid student interns. chuffed.org/project/bekandze
you're so close to working it out.. no, the pretty women that all the men cater too, will *finally* care we do what they want including destroying the planet
@@kp6215 Wrong. Medical research shows that in the future because of global warming the death toll by heat combined with humidity will drastically increase. The lower latitudes will become uninhabitable in the second half of this century and lead to a few billion refugees. That's simple physics and biology.This year you could already see the beginning of this all around these latitudes from Mexico to India to the Philippines.
Although the imperialist uniparty drives the world towards the cliff, whatever the person "in charge", no? In my book I use sociological data to conclude we should expect more stupid politics as an aspect and accelerator of collapse.
@@jembendell I wish the film would have included your "freedom-loving response" and how it relates to the globalist agenda. Most of my XR friends are still getting boosters. They saw through BigOil, but somehow BigPharma can do no wrong. It was the magic word "vaccine" perhaps?
I wanted to change the world but nobody wanted to lose their job !.....and the only possible solution I can see to that problem would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to SHARE the jobs we NEED people to do and work much less...it would be the end of this useless infinite growth system... it would ensure people could stop doing their planet destroying jobs and EASILY find another one . ..and It would change the world very quickly without causing any hardship or collapse because everything we NEED to have done will still be getting done.
Yeah and who feeds and houses the people who don't work? Know a lot of welfare communities where people live healthy, happy lives? No? We already need everyone who's willing to work to do so now to pay for all the retirees and people who don't.
Humanity is in every way a social animal. That is our greatest strength. The more we live up to it the stronger we are. The more we ignore it the lower and weaker we become.
I remember the day in 2017 sitting on my verandah reading an article by a climate scientist who set out exactly why it was too late. You just couldn’t argue with it, there was just no doubt. The information sunk in it was very emotional, a sign that you’ve got it, you have to grieve, then act. I moved to high ground and began acting locally to do what I can. No UN, WEF, WCF or any organisation of any kind will do anything. It is now up to every individual to accept what is and do what they can locally, from the ground up. No one can avoid this responsibility.
Do you mind sharing the title and/or author(s) of the paper?
Was likely Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation paper, although I think that was from 2018.
Instant new sub: I had my climate awakening 20 years ago but never formally joined any climate aware or activitst organisation. I soon realised nobody wants to hear the bad news which seems so far away from their current expectation of life for themselves or their family. I have not flown for 20 years, I buy a lot less consumer crap and eat better and live life without media domination. Your documentary was a random TH-cam recommendation that became a watch from beginning to end and I felt compelled to leave a positive comment. Thank you for your communication and presentation, your new life experience and how we come to terms with ourselves and our world, and our lifestyle and it’s contradiction to life in the wider world. Action is the antidote to despair, my action is personal and one to one, Hope is illusionary, acceptance is peace.
Well stated. I first realized our situation in the late 60's and have been observing it worsening ever since. I like what you said "Action is the antidote to despair, my action is personal and one to one, Hope is illusionary, acceptance is Peace." A quote from Sting goes "Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one." And there are no magic wands. Peace my Friend, Namaste
Nothing can be done. A resistance needs secure comms. That will never happen.
The climate isn't changing.
@@JamesHawkeTH-cam Changing as it always has done but a slight of hand has attached human activity to this cycle.
@@JamesHawkeTH-cam explain please? or just just leave the podcast name
This is an extraordinary piece of work. Using all your skills from the old world to help rebuild our new. I worked with Skeena in XR and I remember her telling me that you had invited her to work on something big and she was excited. Since then I joined the Insulate Britain campaign and then Just Stop Oil. Went to prison. Twice. Am now volunteering in a climate emergency centre in my hometown which I cofounded. It’s been a struggle (family don’t support my actions) but so liberating. And I have met the most wonderful people. Totally connected. And now this film. I’m so proud of you and happy to be a part of this awakened community. We will keep working, sharing this terrible news and supporting one another in our grief. Thank you for your service to humanity 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for the sacrifice and bravery xx
@@michellecharlesworth970 Great action. Your are living the necessary change. 🙏
Sadly, when we walked away from the wild, we walked away from ourselves. Thanks, Jem.
We were dragged. Old family trees were very important to us, but plants did not glow in the dark.
Yet the leftists despise "backwards" rural people who live on small farms much closer to nature than 99% of their own. The irony. Will he mention the Younger Dryas, Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period? What about the regular huge volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts that wipe out huge regions, dim the sun and drop temperatures almost overnight? Most don`t because they`re uneducated fanatics. Does he know what mega solar events do to the gasses in the atmosphere? Will he ignore China & India to avoid being "racist"? How much money is he making while pretending to be a holy monk?
we can at least begin to walk back to it.
On a personal level, at least.
You can never go home
Humanity’s definition of progress has only ever been short-term, and we have been suffering for it the whole time.
This is so surreal: this video being several times interrupted by ads promoting ultimately brainless high gloss consumerism.
If you look at one of the early comments replied to by Jem, it is TH-cam that has applied these.
I think ' Documentary ' videos have it done as an algorithm feature.
@@em945 Surreal independent from the question if anybody „ordered“ or „arranged“ this…
Aren't there only ads if the channel chooses to monetize their content? I am blissfully unaware as my adblocker filters all the rubbish.
I pay £12 a month. Well worth it, just to get rid of ads and do other tasks while listening in a box.
@@ppetal1 I use adblocker ultimate with the firefox web browser. Doesn't cost penny. I consider advertising to be a form of pollution. You shouldn't have to pay to be free of it.
An excellent documentary. It's such a shame that so many people are not told the true state of our world. I appreciate your work greatly.
We will be unable to deny it in a few short years. Just a shame they wasted decades of time when we could have made it less bad.
A lot of people are faced with the truth, and when they are faced with it, they bully and shamed the people who are talking about it from making them uncomfortable. And their knee-jerk reaction is shaming. Talk about collapse and you’re an unhinged conspiracy theorist and a doomer with mental health problems. Problem is most people _don’t want to hear the truth_ and will actively avoid it, and try and prevent other people from speaking on it. The normalcy bias is so strong, and it’s frankly suicidal.
We have heard the message loudly for 65 years+. We need people that DO things to mitigate the stress and help the recovery, not pander to affluent arts majors.
Welp, that long comment I left under yours disappeared but I’m still getting notifications. Weird. People also deny the truth, and don’t want to hear it.
True. It is rare that any of this makes it into the mainstream, or even onto popular podcasts. Then we face 'visibility filtering' by bigtech for being too alarmist for their corporate-funded 'fact checkers'. Something I mentioned in the concluding of a project to warn policy makers: jembendell.com/2024/07/03/no-more-warnings-needed-an-intransigent-managerial-class-must-be-sidestepped/
Thanks to all of you who have tried to talk about the environment to others, and tried again... Being told that "everyone has their cause" so why must you bring everyone else down... etc. ad nauseum. And still get up every morning, awed by the beauty and life and sounds and smells of nature... and smile and cry and begin again... You are appreciated.
Thank you. I've been doing this for seven years, and still in reality people are not receptive to hearing the truth.
Only through destruction can you have rebirth.
I never tried to convince anyone of what was apparent to me. I just told them that we will see our end in this lifetime. I sold everything I owned in CA and moved to northern Thailand. I’ve been able to address my medical issues with natural and alternative medicine. It’s been enlightening to learn from locals on how to live from the land.
I am a journalist and have covered several Climate Conferences in the past decade. I lost hope of any positive outcome from such conferences. We will not see a solution from the political or business leaders. The problems are on the system's roots and it's impossible to correct them, and remain with the same system. We need a new way of being on this planet (maybe old ways of being...). I totally agree with Jem Bendell and I wanna thank him for this inspiration to seek solutions at the community level. I hope more and more people will become aware that the collapse of industrial civilization is unavoidable.
I realised as a child around 45 years ago that humanity lives in a giant man made life support machine, all the systems that had been put in place since the second world war amounted to a controlled experiment to see how many humans could be sustained in such a system.
I have tried for most of my adult life to resist being a part of the system, I haven’t always achieved this but still keep trying to avoid it where I can.
I feel that the shift has now reached the point where it can not be stopped by anyone or anything, but I do believe that when we get to the other side of what is coming we will live in a far more sustainable way.
What’s fascinating is the psychology behind why society is not taking this seriously. Because I’ve always grown things since a child. I developed a unique sensitivity in regards to feeling our planet. Decades ago, I developed a suntan lotion for my plants because I noticed even the most sun, loving vegetables, experiencing solar stress. a few years ago we bought a small property and I just have known for decades that things are getting warmer and will continue to get warmer faster than anyone realizes. So what did I do? I started planting plants that are wanted to grow zones higher than we are designated here. And the frightening thing? A local culture specialist. Just told me that our zone has already changed to 10 a or 10 B when it was. Just 9B. So I guess my instincts are right on?
Because most people are in a Mouse Wheel where the system put them in. They can't get out of there nor they are able to see their own nose. They can't help themselves.
Hyperbolic discounting
This film gave me a deep sense of peace and acceptance as I'm coming back from an illness and finding new direction as energy returns to do the work we share. Grateful to have come across this today - thanks, Jem and Skeena!
I'm on the second listening to breaking together. Things are happening fast now and your book came at the perfect time for me. Thank you so much for all of your work and sacrifice.
I live in New Mexico, USA and have been meditating a while now (I’m an old hippie). I kept having the feeling I should comment a Buddhist aspiration I say OFTEN [because it often applies]. I’ve messed it up enough and it’s mostly paraphrased yet I feel connected to it. If you are of a mind to add it to any of your rituals… that would be great.
In all circumstances may I seek to awaken compassion and wisdom.
Peace!
I have listened / followed you from Sydney Australia and have since moved to a small village by the sea in Finland. It is a breath of fresh air to actually hear the truth regardless how bad it nay be. You have definitely changed my views on life and the importance of love for others.
How did you manage to move to Finland?
Mr Cooper, my fourth grade science teacher in 1976 warned us about this-and here we are. Nobody has ever been willing to sit and listen to hear. My warnings is just too terrifying for them.
Yeah, no one wants to talk about it with me either. I'll say something about it but they never engage in the topic.
In 76, they said it was an ice age that was coming. In the 80s, it was hole in the ozone . Then I think they discovered there always was a hole in the ozone. Then global warming, but that didn't describe what was happening, so now it's climate change. Co2 is .04 % of the atmosphere. The only thing people agree with is that a cleaner world makes sense. These climate models are not absolute. I see a lot of green new deal through the comments. What would that really accomplish . Like Carl Sagan said, if you can't get China and India on board with such a plan it wouldn't work. And they're busy pulling there population out of poverty so they will do what they have to do. The world isn't ending in 10 years because of climate change.
Why is it the people who give climate hysteria also give transgender hysteria or right wing racists hysteria ....covid hysteria. Are they correct. ? Or hysterical 🤔
@@Whowhatwherewhen5 First, 7 million people died of COVID and Republicans died at higher rates then Dems, so the GOP shouldn't have pooh-poohed it. Second, racism has been a real plague on society for 500 years, and although it's much better, it still isn't fixed, so that's not "hysteria" either. Meanwhile, thousands of research studies and intensifying climate disasters prove that the climate crisis is real and threatens our future, so calling that "hysteria" just signals that you don't know the science.
Take care.
@@Whowhatwherewhen5ikr. Everyone is kinda stuck in the way of thinking through the infomation we get. Too little,narrows our perspectives. Too much, incapacitates us.
All I can say, is Thunderbolt Project, Dan Winters, Schauberger, Kolisko, Passio, Caroline Myss, Michelle Gibson and many more.
The world is more wonderous than we can dare to imagine. The things we can measure and quantify mighy gives us the map. But it is not the territory.
Thank you so much Jem. I deeply relate to your experience and to your change in direction. I started my quest at 17, and exchanged a life in London for one in rural Mexico. In year 2000 I moved onto my small holding to become a self-sufficient farmer. For me it is the only way to make a difference. Un abrazo fuerte, hermano.
Since the 1960's environmentalist have been trying to alarm us into taking action to save the environment.
And expert after expert have been telling us "all is ok, it's all sustainable". We've been hearing that slogan for over 60 years and things have been getting worse. Why"
We have short memories, and after the experts tells us "all is ok and it's sustainable" our minds relax and in a few months we've forgotten the fight - forever.
The word "sustainable" has morphed over the years to mean "kicking the can way the hell down the road out of sight and mind."
Over 90% of the commercial fish in the ocean are gone. There are over 10,000 desalinations plants sucking out water from the ocean and returning the salt back to the ocean.
Fracking has destroyed our fresh ground water... and the list goes on and on...
Just where do you all think this is going to end?
As a survivor of hurricanes Ian, Helene, and Milton, am seeing the effects, first hand
The shorelines are taking a beating 😢
Every time someone talks to me about "hope"... I ask them "hope for what?"
Make anything up. JFC. These people are lost
Have a positive attitude! I'm positive dangerous climate change is here NOW!
hope that a civilisation living unsustainably can carry on living the same life but somehow in a sustainable way, people hope for the impossible. it also really helps if you are completely uneducated on the topic, which would appear to be most people.
Future generations. For what we can accomplish in securing them their future
The Green New Deal is a first step in bringing humans together in cooperation for each others health and well being.
There may be others, but bringing humans together to care about more than our individual "success" is core
Funny how all the supposed solutions are by "doing more." Maybe do LESS (drive, eat, laundry....) It wont matter that much, but it sure is easier! The desire to be "useful" drives most consumption and waste. Be not ambitious, but seek that which is already there. Hear the Bodi.
The Bodhi tree was/is a type of banyan tree that drops these little fruits, sort of figs the size of peas. My mom used to hate 'em and always bitch about them. It makes me laugh that the tree my mother disliked so much is the actual bodhi tree.
36:00 I feel the same way, when i enter a city. It is, as if you can feel the stress and negative vibes of everybody. The polution, the noise...absoulutely disgusting
I live in a compact city In a mixed-use neighborhood where I can walk to just about everything. When I go to the suburbs which are so sprawling and wasteful and so car dependent, that’s when I feel disgust. I guess we’re all disgusted by something.
Suburb culture is partially City living and partially pseudo country living. Like driving further into the country and paying four times as much as you should for a pumpkin because you bought it directly from a farm.
I have been having very difficult conversations with family and some friends about this for several years now. Most really don't want to talk about it because the inability to change what is coming makes most people extremely uncomfortable. The speed at which climate has been changing versus what we were told has made me extremely uncomfortable. I am deeply morning the world I grew up in and wanted my children and grandchildren to be able to live in. Now, simply *living* in the future will be a struggle; not the distant future but very near future.
Same. I am terrified for the kind of world my kids and their children will experience. It's happening now and I'm sick over it. If last summer didn't get people's attention I don't know what will. They all think their air conditioners will keep them safe and it's business as usual. It's totally bonkers.
Yep, they will not listen to you. I have found out in conversations with many. Even it may harm you if persist on them, relationship-wise.
Thanks Jem for your rootedness and truth ... Love from South Africa
Jem is a gem!
Saw what you did there.
@@Bolanboogie10 yeah, low hanging fruit.
Thank you for this discussion - this serious and needed continuance of looking at what is and accepting with brave dignity that we are called to play a part in speaking truth with care and love and respect.
Breaking together, perfect words for our times. Thank you for caring enough to share, take care.
Those childless cat ladies cared enough not to lay this on their children.
Childfree. We love our cats.
Left Wing radicals just want to tax us to death and tell us we can fix the environment if we pay more taxes
Great Doc, literally! Hi Jem I met you a number of years ago at ….I think Sacred Arts or Unicorn Camp, where the whole camp was devoted to this subject/collapse etc. i hated that camp. I have spent my whole conscious life eg age 16-59 trying so hard with the environment in the face of ever accelerating global destruction. The “message”, of what I knew any way left me with a paralysing gnawing fear for a number of years. It was about my children and their imminent destruction and that of their generation. I chose perhaps 2 years ago now to really talk to them about their feelings around the collapse. They had such strength and such acceptance that my fear dissolved. I now live doing my small part. I live in some acres in Kent, my land has always been devoted to the wildlife, I listen quietly to the whisperings of the universe. I honour tiny moments. I cannot stop the march but I will play my small part. So glad to see you well and happy in Bali, the grace of the Balinese can teach us much. So lovely to see Katie too. Blessings on you both, go well ❤️❤️❤️
‘I hated that camp’ caught me off guard and made me chuckle 😂
Animal agriculture uses 83% of farmland and only provides 18% of calories. When we switch to a plant based food system, we can restore/reforest 76% of farmland AND be able to feed everyone. -J. Poore, Oxford, journal Science
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO
The plants can't grow without the animal manure hon. They also can't grow without co2
@@lynnelee4390 plants CAN grow without animal manure. Nature has proven this... and for Co2 - the devil's on the dosage.
@@lynnelee4390 Why do you believe that?
I live on a veganic permaculture farm in a rural part of a third world country. We use living mulch (Butón de Oro / Mexican Sunflower) that is much more powerful than chicken manure, and we also complete the nutrient cycles with humanure. We can grow plants without exploiting other animals.
Do you think animal abuse is wrong?
925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion unnaturally bred animals on farms are given enough human edible food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota
@@lynnelee4390 algae is our only hope to sequester all the extra co2. Oil and coal are from algae. Algae can sequester 100 gigatons of co2 per year - if only algae is focused on.
The reality is that 76% is inarable land, meaning we don't do anything to it but we get a return. People, and I did when vegan, have to stop thinking it's just calories that need replacing. It is not. Like the gelatine that holds together your toilet paper or the activated carbon to filter your water or sugar, it's more than calories that need replacing. 83 minus 76 is 6%, so that would mean 6% of the land gives three times the calories, or another crop in its place would have to, arable land and what it can grow is 24% of the land, that we douse in pesticides and synthetic fertilisers and have literally destroyed the soil and turned it into dirt, so that it flies away in the wind, while we suck dry aquifers.
"Agriculture" is the leading cause because humans that live there use it to live, if using the FAO :
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognizes the critical role of livestock in supporting livelihoods, especially for poor communities. Here are some key points:
Livestock and Livelihoods:
Livestock production is essential for around 60 percent of rural households in developing countries. These households include smallholder farmers, agro-pastoralists, and pastoralists.
Approximately 1.7 billion poor people depend on livestock for their livelihoods.
70 percent of those employed in the livestock sector are women.
In summary, FAO works to enhance animal production systems sustainably, improve the quality of animal products, and uplift the livelihoods of poor communities while meeting consumer needs. Livestock contributes significantly to global food security and economic well-being, benefiting millions of people worldwide.
So in affect it helps low income families to have animals, for you to say that "animal agiculture" is the main cause probably means all of our consumption in the modern world and this is categorically false, take soy for example. 92 percent of human usable soy is used for humans, 7% whole bean for animals and 1% of the oil, they take 99% of the waste, like all seed oils and other crops have waste. Humans take 6% of whole bean but 87% is processed into oil, which is in everything, either that or palm oil. Animals get fed more crop waste than what is grown for them and if in USA it's around one third of the corn crop. One crop, so no, it does not matter if animals are on land we can't do anything too, having other animals on it, wild ones isn't really going to change much environmentally. The one third of one crop and 8% of soy is not going to replace all the calories, or the rest of the inedible parts either that we use all of. The irony now is the more crop based people there are, the cheaper it is to raise animals, caged ones too.
Here I live in the north of Argentina. Trying to stay concerning about this. The first world must forgive external debts in poor countries so we can do something. Plastic must be forbidden. We must use public transport and live minimalistic way and restore what we can in the less natural environment we have
A mass extinction event was on a dream I had this year 2024 where I was shown catastrophies happening everywhere in the world. Cataclysm would destroy much of earth everywhere. The most interesting part of the dream was that aftermath. It was actually beatiful. Money didn't exist anymore. Comunities would thrive everywhere. A new system of sharing knlwledge and service would be the new economy. Everyone was more spiritual and loving and caring. It was beatiful to see.
Rev. 21:3-4 exactly
I see myself in a lot of Jem's opinions and thoughts, especially the one about feeling alienated in one's own society. Here are some random ideas I've had.
Basically, from a marketing standpoint, the idea should probably be one of 'pessimistic action'. "Yeah, hi, welcome to XR, we're pessimists but really that just means being realistic about the future of humanity. It's going to suck to change as much as we're going to have to, but it needs to be done, so let's just be "Pessimistic Together" and take action to save ourselves from the many of the even worse futures out there".
So it's basically a message of "We know you're mostly not ready for what we have to say, but the world will change, very soon, and once you realize that what we've been saying was the truth all along, come join us! We're a brutally realistic bunch, but that's what it takes to survive this mess."
Toxic/naive optimism needs to be purged from this world. It's just not constructive. "Doing things because they need to be done" is a message people can get behind. as it resonates with the working people, and human "itchyness to do something all the time", shall we say.
Please use whatever ideas above at your own pleasure!
Yep, in the book I talk about positive pessimism. In a recent talk in Hungary, I went further to recognize the full power of sacred pessimism. jembendell.com/2024/04/29/sacred-pessimism-a-talk-to-mark-5-years-of-a-new-movement/
I’ve got the book and showed my dad the letter. It didn’t change his perspective (not because it’s a bad letter, it’s just denial’s easier). It wasn’t that he didn’t believe it per se, but he said he doesn’t know what to believe anymore. I can understand that because he never looks into what scientists are saying.
It bewilders me, on such a vital topic, people’s aversion to allotting time to have a proper look into it, especially seeing as there are experts like Jem that have collated evidence from various disciplines into a single book that’s easy to understand if you go into it with an open mind.
Loved the book btw 👌
My father was up front with me when I asked him if man-made climate change was real. "Yes." was his answer. When I asked what can be done about it, "Not much." This was 40 years ago.
@@therealdesidaru he should write a book, really has a way with words.
It's not his fault, it's by design. Ever notice that even the leftest, most progressive news outlets just... don't really talk about climate change? There's no effort - at all - going on in society to try and inoculate against denial, right-wing propaganda or conspiracy theories.
And that's because the rich own the media. They have an agenda to just... tone it down. Your dad is a victim of intentionally bad education.
Yep, the corporate corrupting of the scientific process, its communication and application, has led to many people distrusting authority on matters that involve science so they are then mislead by opportunists on social media, or disengage. I have had to accept that this distortion of knowledge and communication is itself an aspect of societal collapse and I will continue to share insights from rational, diligent, systemic and salient analysis without the likelihood it either makes a significant impact at scale in society or reaches all the people most important to me. It is why I gave a whole chapter to the topic of 'critical wisdom' soundcloud.com/jem-bendell/freedom-to-know-critical
It shouldn’t bewilder you because honestly most of the people who are old enough to understand or do something about it are also old enough to know they won’t be here when s*** gets real. Hard to care about something you aren’t going to personally suffer with.
This is excellent well done Jem Guy McPherson talks much about leading with love during these times
Neitzche defined hope not as a technique for extending one's torment.
Eh?
Pandora's box. What was left behind (hope) was the curse.
This documentary resonates very much with how I feel about the changes that are coming. Not addressing the root-causes ( a systemic shift is needed ) and carrying on the way we have done for centuries will not bring about the change the earth needs right now. It's like talking to a brick wall in my opinion. It will have to come from local incentives. Small endeavours. Communities discovering how to work together to get things done, where everybody's effort is appreciated as a part of the whole. Thank you for sharing your insights. It means a lot... 🙏
Your right about all things breaking together, you’re wrong about it going well, there will be no one left but the predators
So good to see someone else facing the imminent collapse ahead without all the love n light head in the sand mentality! Greetings from Aus 💚
Excellent. The first prerequisite for effective action is public awareness and the courage to face our frightening reality. I have lost friends who - lacking the guts to face reality because to do so would demand action - got angry when climate is mentioned. No surrender!
The terminus of walking the path to enlightenment is the Cave at the End of It All. Weary travellers reaching the cave entrance will find a flickering hearthfire beckoning from within. And, upon crossing the threshold, and coming full circle, the traveller will realize that once again, home has been redeemed. It has been an awfully long walk, from the cave mouth to the City of Gold and back, but now the journey is at an end, and the homefire awaits. Cast off your raiments, discard your baubles, and squat beside the campfire. We all belong here, and always have. And never should have left.
it’s a shame in that cave awaits a huge fuck-off bear that tears everyone to shreds
Thank you, Jem and Creators of Documentary.
✌❤
The solution for the crises can be only on an individual level. Each individual can adopt a life of minimalism and try to live in harmony with nature. I still drive my car which uses gas and there is plastic use when I buy groceries. It is already out of control but we have to start somewhere and make small sacrifices. Nuclear war is a bigger risk and it seems like civilization has developed a death wish.
A little activism helps the dispair: stop or reduce your meat and dairy consumption. Stop buying stuff packaged in plastic- -plastic water bottles are incredibly stipid and the grocer has cases of these polluting, disgusting things! Buy quality clothing that will last and then learn to mend them! Stop driving around for pleasure or driving one mile to get a one pound loaf of bread. Stop flying on vacation and learn about the town or city you live in. Plant a garden.
THINK about your carbon footprint EVERY time you buy something.
Better late than never for sure. Realizing how destructive a typical act like shopping or vehicular travel is surely is an initial part of waking up. Of course that doesn't mean it will end just because it is non sustainable. Soon enough (an eventuality) folks will find collapse will rob them of the fantasy of escape into consumerism and holding on to the status quo. It will be too late to find the personal center that had required attention for many years. So start now. Sit on the floor till it hurts. That may be the beginning of activism.
Meat and dairy?
Grow up.
Stop driving for pleasure.
Stop running your AC to 65 when it's 100 out.
Pick up someone else's trash.
Everyone wants everyone else to do the work but they themselves don't budge.
No one wants to make any sacrifices.
Especially Westerners and especially USA citizens
TH-cam blocking comments again
Increase you meat intake if it's not the daily recommended amount, we feed more crop waste than feed we grow for them and the little bit we do grow specifically for them, is not going to replace all that we get and crop based is all around profit and increased turnover. Eat the fat, beef or lamb is mostly grass fed on non arable land, so it's the cleanest food available and most environmentally friendly. Stop eating crop foods that are destroying the planet and eat less, overall.
A small percent of an eight billionth of 6 percent of the issue doesnt doesn't do much. Blaming individuals is literally fossil fuel marketing. If we don't entirely shut down the top 100 polluters who represent over 70% of the issue there's almost no point whatsoever to individual efforts (many of which are not actually having any meaningful impact and in some cases are exacerbating the problem. Even those you mentioned.
Yes, we should be examining a "less" economy. Less need for pointless jobs and businesses. Less need for massive commuting. Less need for industrial plastics and fossil fuels and mining. But we should be examining these issues as a collective society. Not as individuals. And we should be demanding such societal efforts and condemning anyone who pretends individual actions amount to much. As he said in the film, most people are dependent on the societal structure. Asking that person not to depend on it is completely unrealistic.
Temperature in Palm Springs 🌴 yesterday hit a record 124F
Its 125 in NV
Looks like summer to me
133 degrees 7/9
For everyone who's not a Yank, 124/125 in Freedom Eagle Units is 51C.
@@cabalavatar official proffesional weather station measuring air temperature?
A wonderful truthful and sensitive documentary❤ thank Jem and everyone that w as involved in the making of do this documentary
We needed to stop the greed decades ago to have a slight chance of surviving.
Pretty clear to me we're on our own...no loving all-powerful god is going to pull off a miracle...
...Beryl, hurricane was the earliest hurricane to form and within a couple days became a cat 4 then a cat 5 hurricane killing several people and causing irreparable damage.
It’s supposed to hit Texas on Monday. Not past tense yet.
I sincerely hope people grasp the fact that there are those that want to play god are diddling with the weather right now as is increasingly now being admitted. Enough said
I think having the ability to chose to give up is all we have left. They will not listen, the situation will not change. Hope will not help.
Beautiful film! Also beautifully made. Enjoyed you speaking more on the spiritual dimension in all of this Jem.
Big long term fan that have bought your Breaking Together book. Love you have put a complete yet brief enough version in video form to share for the people who would not read the book but watch a video. Also love how your is one of the very few messages that moves further from clichés and propose future attitudes for the future that is to come.
This also dissects the meaning of hope and dismantle its naive interpretations that too often are coopted by the current system to stall any change.
I'll be spreading the word while also trying to align my life and principles around this new reality.
Greetings from Mexico.
Mother Nature has a way of correcting things
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Aldo Leopold said living with an ecological “education” meant living in a world of wounds…..
I’ve been living there for many years, trying to find a….let’s call it a path. I feel constrained to silence sooooo often, just to let a little joy bubble in the lives of those I love when it’s already in such short supply.
It can leave me lonely, and feeling like a liar-by-omission.
This time with you has been a huge help.
So again, thank you.
Thank you for your honesty and clarity. I do not think most humans have the wiring to comprehend the enormity of the climate crisis, and even if they did, what to do at this late stage for most??? More immediate concerns prevail.. We, as a species, have done a huge no-no, we have soiled our own nest. Mother Nature seems to be of the mind that Enough is Enough and she has to weed out this noxious species, h. Sapiens Destructivus,. I only hope some of the other creatures survive
You are what we need, great thinkers & communicators, however not enough are taking notice. Terrence McKenna had the same view. Peace.
You want truth?
You want change?
A COURSE IN MIRACLES.
Peace.
I need to start on it again. I don't even have the book anymore because it burned in a house fire almost twenty years ago.
I'm going to order it.
Sending lots of love to you, Jeremy. And thank you for sharing your path. It creates peace to watch this video. I appreciate much having met you at a beautiful place! Friederike from former Alexandros.
Thank you. I hope you get to convene people for wonderful connection and expression via a new venue!
Tis true. And there is nothing we can do. It is magical we don't know what happens after collapse. In fact-- this idea that collapse is some time down the road is the only part of our collective narrative that is bonkers. The temps are cresting to 90's here in Seattle this weekend. The west coast is burning from a heat wave. We're in it. Mutual aid and recognizing that our losses are what connects us is a gift of perspective. Better to be a calm beam of light than pull your hair out.
Word up brotha
It’s been burning up here 😢
So what exactly are you doing in Seattle to change things?
@@LilyGazouNot judging would be a good start for you.
Yes. Be both helping people into the lifeboats and fiddling 🎻 away while we sink.❤
Thank you
This was a beautiful offering thank you for sharing Gem
Thank you so much Jem!
Fantastic, important work. Thank you, Jem 💚
lovely stuff, thanks for the documentary
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you Jem, your an inspiration.
I am currently working towards a Degree in Sustainability and was starting to feel overwhelmed and questioning everything. You have re kindled my passion and reminded me of my abilities to overcome difficulties. "As Necessity is the mother of invention", Plato. Being stewards of this planet, I feel it's our duty to help find balance... at least do our best to.
Anna
I love the Kintsugi buddha introduction. Could not have started this conversation more poignantly...
Very good! Thank you. I feel less alone by watching. May everyone allow everything to come up and be touched and transformed in a positive way by this.
Great documentary and thank you for your dedication. The core issue on our planet is overpopulation. We are adding close to 100 million people to the planet everyday and unfortunately no matter the amount of environmental initiatives, it'll never be enough to offset the amount of people added to the planet everyday. Millions of acres of land required to house and feed all those people who rely on a massive amount of resources to just sustain the most basic of lifestyle. The greatest environmental and humanitarian effort anyone can undertake can be done from the comfort of their own home in deciding not to have children for a period of time until the population is drastically and naturally decreased to a sustainable number that not only considers the health of human life but the health of fauna and flora. 🌍✌️
Great documentary
Thank you, the filming team and Jem are doing such an important, meaningful work! May you be able to produce many other films and spread the true state of our beloved planet! May we all be courageous enough to put our actions in service of others.
"You paved paradise and put in a parking lot
Dont it always seem to go you dont know what you've got till its gone"
Big yellow taxi. Joni Mitchell
Exactly
My sister and one of her dear friends went on a vacation to Bali. They returned home, having experienced the deep gratitude of every single person they encountered in Bali for the gift of life, all the resources that the land gives and their constant joy and peace. My sister seems like a lighter being, and if it is possible for her, I'd say is even more giving than before. She sought out this trip perhaps because she already had a kinship with the people's appreciation for life.
The clamour for access to resources will become deafening.
Hoping listening to this will give me perspective on whether I should reconsider current thoughts of "maybe I should just go buy a house". A decision I've been putting off for decades. Not getting any younger & house sharing sucks. Would prefer to join a co-housing community, but they're just too few & far in between in the UK. Born at the wrong time.
Thx Jem.
I fully understand this career and academia pressure because I come from South Africa. But in my early thirties, unlike the rest of my generation, I gave up job and career possibilities and started travelling. In the end I landed up in Switzerkand where training in crafts is very well developed and well paid. This leads to much less pressure for individuals to go to a university even if one is not made for acedemia. This policy brings a lot of peace and satisfaction and a very high standard in practical jobs. This academia for everyone is a scary mass sickness
How did you manage to get a visa to live in Switzerland?
Yup Singapore dietitians say that eating the same food every meal for every day for a year combined with a daily canned formula milk is enough nutrients for an adult!
Yup Singapore dietitians say that eating the same food every meal for every day for a year combined with a daily canned formula milk is enough nutrients for an adult!
Such is degree trained dietitcians!
Yup Singapore dietitians say that eating the same food every meal for every day for a year combined with a daily canned formula milk is enough nutrients for an adult!
Such is educated dietitians!
i move off grid in the winter to Mexico from Canada....my reduction in consumption of nearly everything is staggering; albeit the fuel it takes to get me here . I love living so simply and wish I new that this could have been a goal of mine ages ago. Finding harmony with our world truly rewards us with an inner sense of peace. I hope it is not all for nothing.
Heal yourself.. Heal the planet...
Collapse watching just has to be easier from Bali, though? No offence, but dreary England collapse will be harder mentally...?
Yes, and I can see it all around me. UK
@@juliebarks3195 And yet all we hear from politicians is 'growth, growth, growth' and 'have more babies'! Groan...
@@russtaylor2122 omg yea the people demanding a baby bubble. 🫧
@@playinglifeoneasy9226the newcomers are having the babies. The most common name?
"Dreary England" is supposed to get dryer with a slowing Amoc and with that the thermal equator is supposed to move south towards Bali, so that would become hotter.
All my adult life, we have been going from economic disaster to economic disaster. I won’t say “catastrophe” because things such as war, 9/11 or natural disasters have only had an economic or cultural reverb on me, rather than loss or trauma. So, I have learned that I can adapt to life style changes. This fear of not having access to modern conveniences and my favorite forms of recreations was so all consuming in 2008, but honestly, I know now, I can take on more. Granted, now the fear centers around getting adequate medical help for my husband rather than how many times I can buy a boba tea in a week. I fear the collapse of our modern healthcare because that certainly means catastrophe for me. You can change my expectations on my diet, shelter, clothes, social standing and travel, but I do cling to pharmaceuticals. Will people choose fast fashion over medical aid? Probably
Anas ibn Malik reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."
Ther is so much wisdom. In every sentence you speak❤
Congratulations on the life change. I sure pray we all smarten up. I wish I didn’t see the plastic bottle of water on your desk next to your computer this made me shiver 😢
Beautiful intro ❤ speaks to my soul
Im aware, i listen to guy mcpherson, michael dowd.
I grieve every day. Age 70 very ill. My heart is 😢
Thank you, Namaste'
Beautiful film. I was struck by how the XR messenger was personally attacked so that they could avoid dealing with the truth of her message of reality. Also the words of Joanna Macy so strong and simple and true.
Yes, wonderfully clear, the good and the bad.
Amazing documentary. ❤😢😊
Hi Gem. I’m really interested in how ritual has changed your life. It sounds like it’s brought about a massive shift from the anthropomorphic world view to a more animistic sense of being and reciprocity.
I would like to hear more about the rituals too in detail if possible - I would like to implement them in my life.
@@LizabettRusso 👋 there are 2 books I can recommend for further reading. Root and Ritual by Becca Piastrelli and Rituals for Life by Isla McCleod. One American and one British
Speaking of rituals, how about that Extinction Rebellion protest? Singing, like they were in a church singing hymns, and getting arrested, like they were doing something worthwhile. Bunch of idiots.
@@davidjohnzenocollins I think they hope to raise awareness by peaceful protest rather than the oft destructive and disruptive attention sought by Stop Oil. Perhaps it’s a way for them to feel part of a collective voice… I’m not a member I’m just thinking how people choose a response that feels right to them.
The real harm is in the solutions we develop to solve problems. The planet is safe, people are not.
Thank you very, very much. Empowering where not hopeful.
The 7 year trib is upon us. Horrific times just ahead.
What he doesn't mention here and should be noted is that the very rich and very powerful feel that they will be isolated and protected when the planet they've neglected and exploited comes crashing down around the rest of us. He doesn't mention climate refugees or the disasters that will continue occuring will be costly, something the rich and powerful has no use in continuing supplying as they reap a greater profit for themselves. Filling their storehouses sorta speak. Another thing not mentioned and I pray it's not an intention of governments around the globe. Is rather than change how they live or come up with solutions that are workable but hard, will be reducing the global population and you know it won't be them, it will be us.
As today I watch in horror, disbelief and great anger at a genocide that's happening in Gaza. There's this nagging part within me, an alarm that started ringing, is this population of people just the start? 7/7/2024
The wealthy already have their bunkers and islands set up and stocked. They really don’t want more humans.
I'm seeing what you're seeing. It's horrifying, but appears more and more to be the sobering truth.
32:28 I don’t really get why she’s criticising(?) Jem’s privilege, ironically sat in a big posh house while doing so. I mean so what if he’s privileged, he’s left his profession and doing a massive amount to help everyone. Privileged is a loaded descriptor and, to me anyway, that speech sounded like it was adding unnecessary negativity, raising a subject that wasn’t relevant or called for. I probably misinterpreted what she was implying though, could someone enlighten me?
Personally I think it was a good thing to at least mention privilege, and the fact that Jem was able to move to Bali, which is literally one of the most desirable places to live in the whole world (remember the movie Eat, Pray, Love?). Not everybody is able to do that.
He hasn’t gone there for a knees up. He’s developing a school for regenerative farming, he’s helping people that really want/need the help. I’m not saying he’s doing it completely selflessly either, the way of life there could be a big influencing factor in his decision but so what?
He’s tried informing The West for years to no avail. I imagine directly helping those in need who appreciate it is far more rewarding.
I just see calling him privileged undermines his efforts considering the amount he’s already contributed and continues to do so.
On the other hand I could be reading too much into it.
@@umalaurenbowman7276 Not everybody is able to come up the way my husband and I have either, but it wasn't our privilege that got us here. In fact, I'd say being discriminated against was part of our struggle. People say I'm privileged to own 40 acres, but I worked 2 jobs for 20 years to get here. My husband and I pooled our resources by communicating and making compromises, I studied and learned how to buy a fixer upper, pay extra on the principal, minimize all other bills, no cable, no subscriptions, no clothes, no restaurants, no vacations, even no trash service at one point. When we sold, we were homeless for 6 weeks waiting to close on our new property, which still needed heating, plumbing, and insulation before winter. Every last penny was used to purchase our new place. We had to get groceries on our credit cards. Our car was robbed and our shoes stolen. We were locked in our storage unit by employees who didn't like our pale skin color, my husband's bald head, and my dreadlocks. We've been at our property 9 months and still haven't paid off the credit card, and my shoes are barely existing, water and thorns come up through the holes in the bottom. There was not much privilege in my story, more oppression if you ask me. But sure, call it privileged when a white person gets something amazing that they've worked hard for.
Thx for engaging in the issues raised. I chose Bali as it suits my personal needs, while also enabling me to create something (the regen farm school) that I could never do in a more expensive country. That is because I reached a point where I wanted to enact my ideas not just spread them. By working at the level of farming, I am learning more clearly why the systems remain as they are... the economics is terrible for anything at the base of a supply chain, which makes internalizing environmental and social costs impossible for most. Therefore the farm and school cant charge our participants, and we rely on donations to offer what we do and to develop further with accommodation for our paid student interns. chuffed.org/project/bekandze
@@jembendell Sounds good
I've got to admit it's getting better (better)
A little better all the time (it can't get no worse)
How can I prepare? As a modern city dweller I know so little about farming or nature in general.
Take that question and many others u will have to the community at www.deepadaptation.info
Exactly what we should be asking.
I'm trying a food forest in the backyard. Ernest Goersch is a great inspiration
When the power shuts off and people have to live in 100 plus degree weather without AC, that’s when people will care.
you're so close to working it out.. no, the pretty women that all the men cater too, will *finally* care
we do what they want including destroying the planet
Wrong, the cold is a lot more dangerous to humans, you have been put into a fear state.
@@ChrisInToonexactly.
@@kp6215 Wrong. Medical research shows that in the future because of global warming the death toll by heat combined with humidity will drastically increase. The lower latitudes will become uninhabitable in the second half of this century and lead to a few billion refugees. That's simple physics and biology.This year you could already see the beginning of this all around these latitudes from Mexico to India to the Philippines.
If Trump somehow gets back in the White House, we’re screwed in many ways, but especially on climate.
Although the imperialist uniparty drives the world towards the cliff, whatever the person "in charge", no? In my book I use sociological data to conclude we should expect more stupid politics as an aspect and accelerator of collapse.
@@jembendell I wish the film would have included your "freedom-loving response" and how it relates to the globalist agenda. Most of my XR friends are still getting boosters. They saw through BigOil, but somehow BigPharma can do no wrong. It was the magic word "vaccine" perhaps?
Why are we not talking about the fix, realistic solutions, or how to change direction?
I wanted to change the world but nobody wanted to lose their job !.....and the only possible solution I can see to that problem would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to SHARE the jobs we NEED people to do and work much less...it would be the end of this useless infinite growth system... it would ensure people could stop doing their planet destroying jobs and EASILY find another one . ..and It would change the world very quickly without causing any hardship or collapse because everything we NEED to have done will still be getting done.
Yeah and who feeds and houses the people who don't work? Know a lot of welfare communities where people live healthy, happy lives? No? We already need everyone who's willing to work to do so now to pay for all the retirees and people who don't.
@@alanj9978 good grief...If you read my post you sure as hell managed NOT to understand what I said.
Humanity is in every way a social animal. That is our greatest strength. The more we live up to it the stronger we are. The more we ignore it the lower and weaker we become.