Deep Adaptation. Life Purpose and Climate Change.

[SoothedByRain]

Jem Bendell is Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria. Below is his paper titled Deep Adaptation he published in 2018.

https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

I'm posting it here for anyone who has peered into the latest climate science and is wondering on what paths they could possibly go travel over the next few decades.

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"The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an
opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of an inevitable near-
term social collapse due to climate change.

The approach of the paper is to analyse recent studies on climate change
and its implications for our ecosystems, economies and societies, as
provided by academic journals and publications direct from research
institutes.

That synthesis leads to a conclusion there will be a near-term collapse in
society with serious ramifications for the lives of readers. The paper reviews
some of the reasons why collapse-denial may exist, in particular, in the
professions of sustainability research and practice, therefore leading to
these arguments having been absent from these fields until now.
The paper offers a new meta-framing of the implications for research,
organisational practice, personal development and public policy, called the
Deep Adaptation Agenda. Its key aspects of resilience, relinquishment and
restorations are explained. This agenda does not seek to build on existing
scholarship on “climate adaptation” as it is premised on the view that social
collapse is now inevitable.

The author believes this is one of the first papers in the sustainability
management field to conclude that climate-induced societal collapse is now
inevitable in the near term and therefore to invite scholars to explore the
implications."

Edited April 7, 2019 by SoothedByRain

[Matt8800]

@SoothedByRain Radically accept that which you cannot change. The death of one thing opens the door to a birth and evolution of another.

Edited April 7, 2019 by Matt8800

[SoothedByRain]

@Matt8800 I agree. God has big plans and Humanity won't be a part of it for much longer  but we could all attempt to go more mindfully no?