From the beginning of civilization about 12,000 years ago (10,000BCE), it has been a choice to leave a previous way of life universally embraced by Homo sapiens. That way of life took shape close to Earth and her cycles. … But around 10,000 BCE some thinking arose that this way of life could be improved.
By now we’ve come to recognize the horrible mistake of creating a way of living that simply doesn’t fit on our one planet. But correcting that mistake is baffling the best minds. Or maybe it’s that there’s so much profit in this way of living that the mind can’t prevail.
A few months ago my daughter, Lauren, began talking with me about Deep Adaptation. She told me about Jem Bendle who has co-edited Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos (2021). What, I wondered, is Deep Adaptation? I had scary feelings rise inside.