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Most of the mainstream press is keen to blame it on “Greed-flation” , a term coined to describe the choices of grocery corporations to...

The rotten and oppressive summer in Phoenix lasts six months, the air dry and the hot winds that smell of death and burnt coal, palm...

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

“The internet has taken something that was once inside us and put it outside of us, has made it searchable, mashable, stealable, and...

Augmented reality headsets are not new, but the new mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro is a dystopian travesty right out of Black Mirror....

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

Work hard, play hard. Time is money. Thank God it’s Friday. These modern sayings have become so common in the Western World (especially...

"Survival situations suck. Do all that you can to prevent them from happening in the first place." -Cody Lundin Cody Lundin, AKA AboDude...

Zombies. Just take a look at cinema—not just American, but Asian, European, what have you—and you can see our strange fascination with the undead. The Walking Dead, Z Nation, any movie ending with “the Dead” (i.e., Dawn of the Dead”), Resident Evil, Train to Busan—the list goes on and on. There is a list of Zombie flicks on IMDB that lists over 400 zombie shows and movies, and there are probably more. Bumper stickers that say “Zombie Attack Vehicle” abound, and there are for

Let me ask you one simple question. What is so special about your phone? What makes it different from the phone you had, say 3 years ago?...

Divide and Conquer: A Timeline Chicago, Illinois, 1968: An accidental double booking of a church’s main room by the Black Panther Party...

Like a lot of people, when I first heard of permaculture, I had no idea what it was, but I knew that it had something to do with growing...

Audio Version: Apocalypse Now & Again by John Biscello Everything always going on. People worry about everything not going on but what...

“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the...

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