TV documentary on collapse readiness

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 YouTube 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.

This is so surreal: this video being several times interrupted by ads promoting ultimately brainless high gloss consumerism.

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.

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.

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.

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 🙏🏻

Sadly, when we walked away from the wild, we walked away from ourselves. Thanks, Jem.

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.

Every time someone talks to me about "hope"... I ask them "hope for what?"

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!

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.

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 ❤️❤️❤️

Jem is a gem!

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!

Thanks Jem for your rootedness and truth ... Love from South Africa

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 👌

This is excellent well done Jem Guy McPherson talks much about leading with love during these times

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.

Neitzche defined hope not as a technique for extending one's torment.

Temperature in Palm Springs 🌴 yesterday hit a record 124F