[D66] Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy

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

Deep Adaptation:A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
IFLAS Occasional Paper 2
www.iflas.info
July 27th 2018
Professor Jem Bendell BA (Hons) PhD

Abstract

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.