deep adaptation

noun

Etymology

Coined by British researcher and academic Jem Bendell in 2018, perhaps modeled after deep ecology etc.

Definitions

  1. A concept, agenda, and international social movement to confront societal collapse caused…

    A concept, agenda, and international social movement to confront societal collapse caused by climate change.

    • “Deep Adaptation has become an international movement now, with people mobilizing to share their grief, discuss what to commit to going forward, become activists, start growing food, all kinds of things.”
    • Another is the British academic Jem Bendell, who advocates an approach he describes as “deep adaptation” to an anticipated “societal collapse”.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of deep adaptation.

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