First Published December 22nd 2025
Edited Novemeber 4th 2026
We are underestimating the combination of events we are already experiencing
Severe Heat, combined with wet-bulb temperatures, can damage some plants, kill wildlife, and harm humans.
Slow, climate-driven failure of agriculture to provide the staples we need to survive: wheat, barley, and rye crop failures.
We are already in a slow collapse
Rice is already becoming toxic: “Rising global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and surface temperatures could negatively affect rice yields and nutritional quality; however, their effects on arsenic accumulation in paddy (rice) have not been assessed concurrently. We aimed to assess the impact of increases in CO2 and temperature (individually and in combination) on arsenic concentrations in rice, characterise soil properties that might influence arsenic uptake, and model the associated risks of cancer and other health outcomes due to increased arsenic exposure.”
Dr Gail Bradbrook Talks Collapse with Phoenix Rainbow.
She never mentions Wet-bulb Temperatures
We need to stop taking a fragmented approach to how we think collapse will play out. We can only do that by learning a combination of skills that build resilience and, at the same time, give us the tools to manage grief. Dr Gail Bradbrook keeps talking about the “Ceremonialists” attending to grief. Those same ceremonialists will probably be the Celtic Shamans who still haven’t worked out how to connect to the “web of life”; they reject learning survival skills. Probably because they haven’t learned them themselves, they don’t experience a connection with nature the same way people who regularly spend time in nature honing plant-based survival skills do. The ceremonialists are the “safe” shamans who haven’t experienced a humbling by nature.
But to survive any collapse, you need expert-level survival skills
Dr Bradbrook talks about empty⁸ supermarket shelves, food banks, mutual aid and fascism. But not in detail. Collapsology is not something even mentioned. The Collapse of Civilisations is messy; once again, another person who thinks it’s a breeze, let’s “Hospice Modernity”.
It’s inevitable that in discussions like this, conspiracy theories emerge, vaccination scepticism, and elective suicide, and “the depopulation agenda” is mentioned, and we are becoming a community where conspiracy theories that were below the surface are accepted as “personal truths”. There’s a fine line between wellness fascism, neo-shamanism, the new age, conspiracy theories and fascism. The crossover is conspiracy theories and some of the ceremonialists. It is becoming increasingly acceptable for neo-shamans to neo-colonially misappropriate ceremonies from indigenous people, even though they have been asked by indigenous people not to. For example:
Sundance is for Native Indigenous Tribal people only.
Sweatlodge is for Native Indigenous Tribal people only.
Vision Quest is for Native Indigenous Tribal people only.
When Dr Gail Bradbrook Talks about culture building, she isn’t specific. But she’s busy building a culture. But it isn’t rooted in nature. She barely mentions nature, except in passing, when she goes to recharge her batteries. Harners Core-Shamanism does not connect us to the web of life, and neither do Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, or Amanita.
The civilisation-collapse blind spots I see playing out in this hope-driven ideology pose serious risks to us all. Bradbrook, the systems thinker, fails to address the immediate risks in any meaningful manner:
Food security crisis: Bradbrook Talks about empty shelves like any prepper, but then talks about Mutual Aid. She has no advice on how to plan now for the future. At no point does she suggest stockpiling dry, nonperishable food. She looks to food banks and mutual aid to step up. Food banks currently hold excess food from supermarkets. At some point, they will be empty as supermarket shelves dwindle. We cannot view future scarcity through the lens of today’s abundance.
Bradbrook never mentions wet-bulb temperatures, ignored by climate-denying preppers, XReadiness and New Age Shamans. The Glacier Trust reports from the Climate Majority Project on adaptation barely mention them.
Climate Grief: Bradbrook seems to think the ceremonialists have the answer to climate grief, yet all their online output offers is the belief that this world collapses, a new one is born, and a mountain of hope lies between the old and the new. All these drum-thumping new-age shamanic ceremonialists lack the one thing that is medically proven to help with climate grief: A deep connection to nature.
And
Understanding the relationship between the brain and nature. That Serotonin produced in the gut has nothing to do with the brain. Nature connects to us when we are in nature. We awaken to a deep connection with the web of life when we learn Nature Connected Skills in Nature.
Ceremonies stolen or made up, devoid of nature, are meaningless. They openly reject learning survival skills, or any skills that connect us to nature. Bradbrook has been drawn into this nexus.
Bradbrook may have acknowledged the contribution the road protests made to XR in We Stand Upon the Shoulders of Giants (YouTube link to Jamie Kinocasts film). I was on the Newbury bypass protests, as well as a few others. Jamie’s film doesn’t show that the camp I lived on kicked the ceremonialists out because they actually thought they ran things and started lording it over camp. They were as parasitic as the drug addicts that turned up at the Wandsworth Ecovillage.
Now, Dr Gail Bradbrook enters the conversation about collapse: Is it coming? What will we do when supermarket shelves are empty? Bradbrook Talks about not turning anyone away, but has no plan as to how to feed them. Bradbrook is naive. The TLIO Wandsworth land occupation, which allowed drug addicts in out of compassion and then threw them all out because they were parasitic, dirty and didn’t respect anyone, is an example of that naivety.
The Druids Were Mostly A Pain in the Ass
Every single road protest camp I had been on had to deal with robed Druids behaving as though they were in direct communion with the goddess, and it was just a power trip. Most charge for healing. Yet indigenous shamans don’t charge. It’s a grift
At Newbury we ceased to tolerate them, kicked them out of camps, involved the hierarchy of the Druid order, and we were right to do so. Because within a short while they had used their “ceremonial” weapons to attack an innocent woman driving home from work and found themselves barred from entering Berkshire. Some of those same robed individuals have convictions for pedophilia now.
Connection to Nature & Survival Skills
Bradbrook never mentions a connection to nature. Because the ceremonialists only talk about it in a notional way. “Connect to the Web of Life”. Jargonisation alienated us. The ceremonialists use these terms to excuse their disconnection from nature: they complicate the web of life, then simplify the connection to “sitting under a tree… and asking what it wants and then doing it in real time”. This won’t build a culture based on anything concrete. Modern Shamans reject learning survival skills because some of them think they are backward, apart, of course, from the Shaman who spent 12 years in the Amazon training, who sat in on your Ayahuasca tourism trip. It’s acceptable for indigenous people and dystopian for the rest of us, utter hypocrisy
Bradbrook & XRreadiness believe that Collapse is going to be a breeze, and it comes across as crass middle-class nonsense with no foundation in reality. Bradbrook is stuck in a division-of-labour attitude while saying things like, “Everyone is crew.” and then saying: “Go to the Green Gathering, we really need the guys who build stuff.” At least she is more inclusive. But she needs to understand that collapse and desperation require discipline, and that we can’t save everyone.
People will die, and we might be in the awkward position of deciding who
Nature is ruthlessly compassionate. Survival now, in a post-1.5 °C world, depends on luck, skills, communal cohesion, loyalty, ingenuity, and a deep connection to nature.
The reality is we are going extinct. Let’s do it like humans and not sheep.
The Ceremonialists are already dictating how we connect to Nature, and they lack the humility to come and talk with those who disagree with them; instead, they go on Instagram and tell us to stop responding to our triggers, then go on YouTube and, triggered by criticism, attack survivalism, calling it dystopian.
It’s pathetic and a little bit funny.
Deep nature connection is good for your mental health. Shamanic healing, however, isn’t about getting people into nature. It’s about shortcuts into psychological therapies with uneducated practitioners of woo, parasitically grifting off our vulnerabilities.
Look after your Mental Health and don’t let unqualified pop psychologists near it.
Almost Every Climate Influencer Wanting To Sound Relevant Talking About The Collapse of this Civilisation Are Tying Themselves In Knots Over Their Own Prejudices and expect YOU to operate without calories: #Deatthcult
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