Bendell doesn’t think we have twelve years to start, doesn’t give us until mid-century to zero out our emissions. He says widespread societal collapse is inevitable, and it’s going to start in just ten years. (Interestingly, this is about the same time that a variety of pathogens—following warmer temperatures into new environments—are expected to kick off a series of pandemics that hollow out the world’s major cities, according to parasitologist and evolutionary biologist Daniel Brooks.) Bendell says it’s time to give up on futile hopes of saving society as we know it. He coins the term “Deep
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