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The collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Breaking Together. How did it come to this? Because monetary systems caused us to harm each other and nature to such an extent it broke the foundations of our societies. So what can we do? This book describes people allowing the full pain of our predicament to liberate them into living more courageously and creatively.

Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. This is the first book to show how professionals across different sectors are beginning to incorporate the acceptance of likely or unfolding societal breakdown into their work and lives.

Les études convergent pour nous annoncer la forte probabilité de l'effondrement de nos sociétés . Pierre-Éric Sutter, psychologue, et Loïc Steffan, économiste, analysent les mécanismes de la prise de conscience, chez ceux qui rejettent l'idée de collapse et chez ceux qui l'acceptent. La peur, manifestation de l'instinct de survie, nous pousse à créer une nouvelle vision du monde, durable, solidaire, résilente et capable de succéder à nos sociétés industrielles. Les auteurs nous décrivent les voies qui conduisent de la peur à une nouvelle sagesse : celle, extérieure, de l'action et du changement de mode de vie et celle, intérieure, de la méditation philosophique et de la recherche de sens.

Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization’s impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, democratic groups that existed in symbiotic relationship with their environments. Increasing complexity led to the emergence of oligarchy, in which societies became captive to the logic of domination, exploitation, and ecological destruction. The challenge facing us today is to build a movement that will radically transform civilization and once more align our evolutionary trajectory in the direction of democracy, equality, and ecological sustainability.