If I told you that there is a paper on climate change so catastrophic, can forever alter our perspective on the world and depressing that is being shipped straight people in support groups and convinced them to give up their jobs and move to the country?

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It is titled "Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy".
I thought 'maybe I should give up this paper and move in the Scottish countryside, waiting for the apocalypse?' "
A little 'question of language ( "we're going to play Russian roulette with the entire human race, and we already have two bullets in the barrel").
A bit 'fierce humor ( "I was joking only in part, before, when I asked what was the meaning even writing this paper").
too late to prevent climate change to devastate the planet and the "inevitable collapse in the near future."
"Now consider that it is already too late to avoid a global environmental catastrophe over the life of the people living today."
Professor Jem Bendell, which deals with sustainability at the University of Cumbria, wrote the paper after taking a sabbatical year at the end of 2017 to review and understand all the recent science on the climate "at the bottom without getting around it," for in the words that he used the phone with me.
"The evidence tells us that we are on the verge of an uncontrollable and devastating climate change, which will bring hunger, destruction, migration, disease and war," he wrote in the paper.
"Our rules of conduct so-called 'civilization' might degrade themselves."
"Now," he added, "considering that it is already too late to avoid a global environmental catastrophe over the life of the people living today."
Erik Buitenhuis, a researcher at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, said that the conclusions of Bendell may sound extreme, but it generally is agreed.
"I think the collapse of our society is inevitable," he said, while adding that "The process could take anywhere from a few decades to a few centuries."
The most important thing, he said Buitenhuis, understand that the negative effects of climate change are already real, "most likely, over the next decade, we will see an increasingly serious deterioration rather than such a great disaster to convince everyone that we're done. "
"The paper Jem rich sources and scientific references overt," said Professor Rupert Read, head of the think-tank Green House and philosopher of the University of East Anglia.
"When I speak of hunger, destruction, migration, disease and war, I mean in the life of each of us."
Read disagree with Bendell only on the idea that there is still time to escape; He said "arrogant thinking about what the future holds."
But this does not mean that the Bendell premise is wrong: "For as I see it, a radical adaptation means getting insurance than the possibility or probability of a collapse," said Read.
" 'Deep Adaptation' he says, 'What should we do if something really collapse with which to deal?'"
When I spoke with Bendell, told me that for him "Deep Adaptation" above all an ethical and philosophical framework, more than a prophecy.
"Pi refuse to talk about climate change as something that is already ruining lives because we do not want to think about it, because it is too afraid or sends us into the panic less time we have to contain the damage," he said.
"Hunger first," he replied, leading to such reduced grain harvests in Europe in 2018 because of the drought have collected 6 million tons of grain less, so to speak.
But if you look at what happened in the last years, not true.
Which means, according Bendell, that governments must begin making contingency plans in response to climate change, including growing and stock up on extra food.
In the paper is not lost in euphemisms: "When I speak of hunger, destruction, migration, disease and war, I mean in the life of each of us.
If crumbling energy infrastructure, soon you will have no more water from the tap.
You fear of being killed brutally, before dying of hunger. "
So we have to build bunkers and buy bulletproof vests?
"We must help people stay nourished and hydrated where they are, to reduce civilian crisis as much as possible."
Of Silicon Valley managers who are preparing for the apocalypse in New Zealand, he said: "When the money will no longer value and armed guards are to feed their hungry children, do you think they will do?
"When I published the paper, I did not expect olds in Indonesia to read it with their teachers"
Once he worked for the WWF in 2012 and founded the IFLAS (Institute For Leadership And Sustainability) at the University of Cumbria.
The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader for his work.
As I finished writing a paper for which the civilization and environmental sustainability as we understand it now are fried?
"I have dedicated my professional and personal life to the cause of sustainability."
Once analyzed very thoroughly the data to, he realizes that his camp was totally irrelevant in front of the imminent catastrophe.
"When I threw it out, I did not expect olds in Indonesia to read it with their teachers."
"A person of around alternative economies and bitcoin told me, 'Oh, everyone is talking about Deep Adaptation to London to dinner,'" he laughed.
Researchers IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research), a successful progressive think-tank, have consulted the paper of Bendell to write their new report, "This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown".
Laurie Laybourn-Langton, lead author, told me via email: "I appreciate the report's frankness in talking about problems that so many people seem to want to deal with.
But we do not endorse the view that the inevitable social collapse. "
He explained: "This is partly because difficult to predict the results of complex and uncertain processes such as environmental shocks that interact with the social and economic systems.
That said, should not be minimized even ask why higher levels of preparation to these shocks. "
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Bendell sent him to a highly respected academic journal because it was published without success.
The Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (SAMPJ) told me that the paper was in need of "major revisions" before they can be published.
"The academic process that I took it as a waste in all respects," he explained, saying that auditors wanted her to change its conclusions.
"I could not rewrite it again and say that I did not think that the collapse was inevitable.
Emerald, the owner of SAMPJ publisher, said the problem lies in how Bendell frames the findings of his paper on his blog: "the study of the collapse that does not want you to read for hours."
A spokesman said: "The decision was taken on the basis of merit of a consonant review document and sent to academic standards.
"Emerald asked the author to correct the blog post to reflect the facts.
The post goes on to argue implicitly that the paper was rejected because it is too controversial.
The paper was not rejected, has undergone a major revision because of the rigorous standards of the publication. "
Bendell says he responded to requests for Emerald to write up the post but only if they considered to reveal the decisions of the auditors (as a rule, decisions of academic reviewers are anonymous).
"A paper that auditors did not want you to read.
The sense of anguish and end of the world related to climate nothing new the prepper stockpile dry food for decades.
But the paper of Bendell seems to have hit a particular nerve, especially if we consider that an average scientific paper is read by only a handful of people.
Rupert Read has told me that he was sent simultaneously by three other academics when it appeared online.
It was mentioned briefly in an article by Bloomberg Businessweek, fine.
"Deep Adaptation" a unique social phenomenon: an academic paper that becomes viral by word of mouth.
Nathan Savelli, a teacher of high school in Hamilton, Canada, received the paper from a local environmentalist.
"If I can be honest, was a mixture of extreme anger and unbearable sadness."
Savelli is already heard so he sought the help of a support group organized by 350.org, a global environmental movement.
"I went to the sessions in the past for other problems, but not a group, and I thought it could help me," he said.
"I'm not sure I've reduced my pain, but it was comforting to be with people who understand how I feel."
And therein lies the "Deep Adaptation" problem: If you accept that the paper is entirely correct in predicting the collapse, how do you go on living?
"I am aware of the difficult emotions that triggers," admitted Bendell.
"I think absolutely that if you come in [paper], grief and despair are natural reactions.
On his blog, lists several sources of psychological support, including Facebook and LinkedIn groups that will discuss and offer help to those who can not come to terms alone.
But, he added Bendell, read the paper was a "transformation" for someone.
In one case, it even prompted an academic high level to give up the job and the city.
In December 2017, Dr Alison Green has left his post as vice-chancellor of the University of Arden.
He had read the IPCC report which warned that the planet is not avoiding even a little 'rising temperatures Global, in addition to the 1,656 pages of the National Climate Assessment of how climate change is affecting our lives dramatically and then he read the paper by Bendell.
The three things combined have convinced her to make a drastic life change.
"My plan to take a small estate and live more close to nature."
Read the paper, he said, he has helped crystallize his growing anxiety about the rhythms and proportions of climate change.
"The thing that really upset me that a sociologist not some fixed, but a teacher of an institution established with an important career say that the collapse in his view, it was inevitable."
"I think the reason why my speech and my paper have become viral and the first time that a social scientist says these things categorically," he said.
But it's time to break up this tab and talk seriously about what to do now. "

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