What to expect when you’re expecting the end of the world

Collage (3 images): 1. Professor Jem Bendell – November 3, 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / YouTube. YouTube CC-BY 4.0 (resized to fit). 2. Extinction Rebellion rally – December 12, 2025. Credit: Stefan Müller via Flickr. CC BY 4.0 (resized to fit). 3. Flag of Extinction Rebellion – February 21, 2020. Credit: CringeFringe22 via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped & resized to fit). Article by Kate Yoder. Grist – April 8, 2026.

Jem Bendell had postponed his personal crisis long enough. For years, he’d been setting aside the worrying news about climate change he came across in a folder on his computer, waiting until he had the time (and emotional capacity) to look at it. In 2017, he took leave from his job as a professor of sustainability leadership at the University of Cumbria, in the United Kingdom, to finally dive in. He read that melting permafrost was releasing methane, a powerful […]

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