Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos

427 Pages·2021·1.649 MB·English

by  Jem Bendell (editor), Rupert Read (editor)

CONTENTS
Cover
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
Introduction: What Next, Now That the Limits Have
Been Breached?
References
Part I The Predicament
1 What Climate Science Can and Cannot Tell Us
About Our Predicament
Where we are after 125 years of climate
science
The root of denial may be found in the workings
of climate science
A case for the virtue of scientific ignorance
Two possible new approaches for survival and
compassion
References
2 Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate
Tragedy
Preamble
Introduction
Locating this study within academia
Our non-linear world
Looking ahead
Apocalypse uncertain
Systems of denial
Framing after denial
The deep adaptation agenda
Research futures in the face of climate tragedy
Conclusions
References
3 Reasons for Anticipating Societal Collapse
Introduction
What do we do with this?
References
Part II Shifts in Being
4 Climate Psychology and its Relevance to Deep
Adaptation
Why climate psychology?
Shiva – seeing what we need to see from inside
a sick culture
Formation
The devil has the best tunes
Denial
Forms of denial
Denialism
Disavowal
A nexus of denial
The psychotherapy profession – another case
study?
References
5 Deeper Implications of Societal Collapse: Co-
liberation from the Ideology of E-s-c-a-p-e
Entitlement in E-s-c-a-p-e ideology
Surety in e-S-c-a-p-e ideology
Control in e-s-C-a-p-e ideology
Autonomy in e-s-c-A-p-e ideology
Progress in e-s-c-a-P-e ideology
Exceptionalism in e-s-c-a-p-E ideology
Habits of e-s-c-a-p-e in the climate change field
The economic reproduction of e-s-c-a-p-e
Moving beyond e-s-c-a-p-e to c-o-s-m-o-s
Considerations for co-liberation from
destructive ideology
References
6 Unconscious Addictions: Mapping Common
Responses to Climate Change and Potential Climate
Collapse
Introduction
Climate collapse denial
The house of modernity and its four constitutive
denials
Responses to the possibility of climate collapse
The rehab
References
7 Facilitating Deep Adaptation: Enabling More
Loving Conversations about Our Predicament
The importance of facilitating groups in the
face of collapse
Understanding ‘othering’ and its remedy with
facilitation
Aspects of facilitating deep adaptation
Containment
Denial and radical uncertainty
Grief
Examples of deep adaptation modalities and
facilitated processes
Deep listening
Conclusion
References
8 The Great Turning: Reconnecting Through
Collapse
Natural allies
Facing collapse
Doing the work
Meaning and hope in a time of collapse
Conclusion: People of the Passage
References
Part III Shifts in Doing
9 Leadership and Management in a Context of
Deep Adaptation
Introduction
What we know about leadership in times of
collapse
Social functions performed by leadership
What it takes to sustain kind, inclusive,
effective and legitimate leadership
What can be done to generate the more
desirable modes of leadership and management
References
10 What Matters Most? Deep Education
Conversations in a Climate of Change and
Complexity
The distillations of a deep adaptation inquiry
Resilience: what aspects of education as we
know it would we want to develop and learn
from in a climate of change and complexity?
Relinquishment: what aspects of education as
we know it would we want to let go of?
Restoration: what would we want to
reintroduce into education?
Reconciliation: how can education facilitate
acceptance as well as agency?
The deep education conversation
The deep challenge
The call to action
Emerging global practices
Workshops on climate breakdown: Simona
Vaitkute, Lithuania
Self-directed education (SDE) and full human
rightsexperience education (FHREE): Je’anna
Clements, Riverstone Village, South Africa
References
11 Riding Two Horses: The Future of Politics and
Activism, as We Face Potential Eco-driven Societal
Collapse
References
12 Relocalization as Deep Adaptation
Resilience
Aspects of relocalization
Food
Electricity
Government
Finance
Money
Localization movements
Intentional communities
Transition network (TN)
Global justice and organizing for relocalization
Conclusion
References
Concluding the Beginning of Deep Adaptation
Communicating deep adaptation
Seek more justice?
Integrate more clearly?
Map collapse better?
Avoid safety of frameworks?
Be more positive?
Conclusion: an end to the beginning
References
End User License Agreement
List of Illustrations
Chapter 6
Figure 6.1 The House that Modernity Built
(adapted with permission from Andreotti et al. 20…
Chapter 7
Figure 7.1 Interrelated forms and drivers of
othering
Chapter 13
Figure 13.1 Government propaganda in support of
emergency localized food production
List of Boxs
Chapter 1
Box 1.1 The international scholars warning on
collapse risk
Chapter 5
Box 5.1 The ideology of e-s-c-a-p-e
Box 5.2 Comparing c-i-r-c-u-l-a-r and e-s-c-a-p-e
models
Praise for Deep Adaptation
‘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.’
Satish Kumar, Editor Emeritus for Resurgence & Ecologist
and Founder of Schumacher College
‘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.’
Professor Will Steffen, Australian National University
Climate Change Institute
DEEP ADAPTATION
Navigating the Realities of Climate
Chaos
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