. @Jonesieman of the @nytimes weighs in on @deepadaptation. Worth reading but.... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/style/climate-change-deep-adaptation.html
#deepadaptation #ClimateCrisis

But the last words of the article make me concerned:
“Even if you somehow knew that the chance of success was small,” Mr. Nicholas said, “you would still be morally obligated to try your best to limit the damages and to keep working.” Is this right? Or...

Or is this not the problem of western medicine and mindsets. There is a point when we need to recognize that a case is terminal, that the best path is hospice not painful, low probability interventions. I am not saying we’re there with the planet. But....

But a naïve belief that we can save ourselves no matter how extensive the damage is is counterproductive, and reinforces dangerous myths like a renewable energy transition will save us. No, it’ll take radical cultural and spiritual change, and economic and population #degrowth.

However, it's hard to imagine these being embraced by the consumer class—one spoon-fed consumer freedom myths for the past several generations. And thus...
@FoxNews @Heritage @AEI @FreedomConsumer #MAGA

And thus that gets back to the Gordian knot in front of us, and why those in the @deepadaptation movement acknowledge that this challenge may be unsolvable in the time we have left. https://medium.com/@erikassadourian/2021-the-year-of-the-post-covid-consumer-orgy-b71961eff513

So, in the end, our best path is to act in ways that both reduce the speed and severity of the #ClimateCrisis as well as make our countries and communities more #resilient to and ready for the radical ecological shifts that are already locked into our future. @buildresilience