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Inclusion is important. It inspires meaningful communication and reciprocal action between people of all races, backgrounds, classes, and sexual orientations. It allows for a certain amount of mutual understanding—and when i say "certain amount", I mean that knowledge itself does not have the power to place us in someone else's shoes. For instance, many white peop le, after seeing the video of George Floyd being brutally murdered by a police officer, felt that they now knew

In spired by Gil Scott Heron's 1970 song, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". "The revolution that takes place in your head ? Nobody will ever see that." — Gil Scott Heron The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be streamed, by a Harvey Weinstein dream team, pedophiles and rapists, sociopaths and misogynists, the revolution Will not be televised. You won't find the revolution hiding under phone screens, a swipe away, peddled out to you by greedy thugs

"W henever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." —Mark Twain Street art by Morley. We are living in a scary time —   a time when all we know is slipping away, bit by bit. Our knowledge itself is being compromised; we are trading brain cells for convenience because of the fear of silence, of boredom. Rather than making our brain functioning a priority, we are outsourcing. Outsourcing our tasks, our choices, our ability to think . AI,

Jem Bendell made his name five years ago when the frustrated climate scientist posted a fifty-page PDF  on his website, Deep Adaptation , about how even with the revolutionary rise of bamboo toothbrushes and fair trade silver bellyscratchers, we probably can't avoid the collapse of the climate and therefore society, so it's worth thinking about how we can prepare for it. Importantly, it is not a question of dealing with a severe crisis in the functioning of a society that la

Some people out there have looked at the science, thrown their hands up and said “Oh well, it’s all over. I now have an excuse to do nothing and complain all day, because the world is ending.” Even more unfortunate is that some of these people are calling themselves Doomers, which I take offense to. I like Jem Bendell’s “Doomster”, and I find it to be a good way of replacing a word that has been used in a derogatory way to describe us—a  subculture of people who have decided

Art by Huleeb, this month's Featured Artist. “I have witnessed my garden become a tool for the education, the transformation of my...

Editor's Note: With all respect to Jem Bendell, the use of AI as part of this interview was done at the request of the interviewee, and is not a reflection of the values of Tawanda Jazz or Dilate Magazine. While searching the web for ideas for increasing my own climate change resilience about a year ago, I came upon a video of Professor Jem Bendell discussing "Deep Adaptation", an idea that I hadn't heard of at that point. I had been struggling with how to react to our curr

Multiple studies have shown that we judge others within the first millisecond to the first 3 seconds that we see them. Learning how to...