✎ Deep Adaptation the book [Resources for Deep Adaptation]

You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data.

====== Climate Adaptation & Great Adaptations ======

===== Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos =====

'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. They do not assume that our current economic, social and political systems can be made resilient in the face of climate change but, instead, they demonstrate the caring and creative ways that people are responding to the most difficult realization with which humanity may ever have to come to terms.

Edited by the originator of the concept of deep adaptation, [[people:jembendell|Jem Bendell]], and a leading climate activist and strategist, [[people:rupertread|Rupert Read]], this book is the essential introduction to the concept, practice and emerging global movement of Deep Adaptation to climate chaos.

From Jem's [[https://jembendell.com/2021/02/23/deep-adaptation-the-book/|website]]:
"How on Earth do we begin to talk to each other and work from a starting point of experiencing or anticipating societal disruption and even collapse?

It needs to become the biggest conversation, with views from different contexts. I am still learning as I talk to more and more people from around the world. Some of them share their thoughts in this book, including Rene Suša, Sharon Stein, Vanessa Andreotti, Tereza Čajkova, and Dino Siwek, who are scholars and activists in decolonization efforts, and XR’s Skeena Rathor, who works on co-liberation from the systemic oppressions that underlie environmental destruction. With this detailed attention to the causes of climate chaos, I hope the book helps support a sober and non-divisive approach to navigating the implications.

I co-edited the book with Professor Rupert Read. We are especially delighted that someone who is an inspiration to us, Joanna Macy, co-writes of one the chapters. The contents follows below. The book is written as a scholarly contribution, mainly focused on informing people who take a professional interest in this topic, rather than the general public.

> “The authors of this book have courage to recognise the reality of our time and face the uncomfortable facts of climate calamity. The theme of this book is indeed scary. But it’s full of bright ideas for how to transmute both fear and difficulty into kind and wise ways of living and working. The thinkers, academics and activists who have contributed to this book embody the wisdom to adapt to this unprecedented catastrophe. They also show the practical ways and means to live and act with the imagination and resilience. Not everyone would agree to these radical ideas but everyone needs to know about them. So, I recommend this book to all.”
>>[[people:satishkumar|Satish Kumar]], Editor Emeritus Resurgence & Ecologist and Founder, Schumacher College.

>“This book is the “red pill” of our times- offering neither certainty nor confirmation of any story you may be holding about where we are heading, in the face of so many colliding crises. What it does offer is togetherness in our insecurity and frameworks in our unknowing, for coming to terms with and making sense of these times. I look forward to both “deep adaptation” and “collapsology” entering mainstream discourse, so that we might then imagine creating together, as our current paradigm crumbles.”
>>[[people:gailbradbrook|Gail Bradbrook]], co-founder, Extinction Rebellion.

>“Collapse followed by transformation is a common way that complex systems evolve. Perhaps collapse of our high consumption, climate-destabilising society can lead to transformation towards a brighter human future. The Deep Adaptation framework outlined in this book is a helpful way to seek that transformation.”
>>[[people:willsteffen|Professor Will Steffen]], Australian National University Climate Change Institute.

>“In this book I am joined by scholars from around the world who seek to be present to the suffering and difficulties of our time. Please turn toward these ideas, not away, to find your own path in a turbulent future.”
>>[[people:joannamacy|Joanna Macy]], author of A Wild Love for the World.

Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. O S L X L Please keep this field empty:

Edit summary

Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International