Deep Adaptation

I am totally aware that some of the content in this article may appear idealistic, impossible, outright controversial.

Concept of deep adaptation is still relatively new, we all need to adapt to a new reality, here is my viewpoint, I hope you'll find it useful and help me figure things out.

First introducing a few concepts and soon you'll realize how they are interconnected.

Deep Adaptation
A friend - leader of https://cohabitat.net/ - sent a newsletter about deep adaptation that included these two links:


 * https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
 * https://respondingtocollapse.com/adaptation-and-resilience-amidst-the-decline-of-civilization

Something I already knew, something I was already aware, something I didn't know has officially coined term

How It All Began?
2015 I was visiting a foreign country, staying in a hotel, turned on TV (for the first time in a long time), the refugee crisis was everywhere.

Here is my blog post from around that time: https://blog.mostlydoing.com/2015/11/syria-climate-change-global-warming.html

(some video links are now dead, too busy to fix, sorry not sorry)

I quickly understood that the situation in Syria was triggered by the climate change - drought, famine - farmers migrating to cities - not enough jobs, frustration, hunger - difficult to contain in a developing country.

That made me interested in climate change, feedback loops, tipping points.

Various environmental efforts, not massively successful, quit my job in a bank, relocated to Wales: https://astralship.org

COP24 Politics
2018 went to COP24: https://genesis.re/360/cop24/

A lot of NGO people are passionate about the cause. People who got into climate are not doing it for profit, if they were for profit they'd work for a hedge fund . I couldn't find a single person who was able to tell me how do we measure CO2: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/15774/what-are-the-technical-solutions-to-measure-ceco2-emissions/15780

"noting" VS "welcoming"

https://takvera.blogspot.com/2018/12/welcoming-of-ipcc-special-science.html

I saw enormous political inertia, conflicting priorities, complete indecisiveness and lack of will.

Even if some negotiations agree onto something, by the time it reaches the decision-makers in their countries it's a distant memory.

Try to convince developing countries "sorry, you'll not have that factory"

Then I started thinking - OK - political inertia, I cannot change it, maybe. can create a political party:


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Greens
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International
 * https://democracy.earth/

Market Forces

 * Market prices for water, as "explained" on Netflix: https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1042233061893582848
 * Market prices for CO2

Prices of a hamburger will go up. Great, maybe you'll start growing your own food. Growing food will reduce dependency on money

Speaking of money - Universal Basic Income.

In the era of automation: https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/9176/how-will-non-rich-citizens-make-a-living-if-jobs-keep-getting-replaced-by-robots/9187#9187

Experiments with Basic Income at a city level.

Number. Metrics. Key Performance Indicators.

(plenty of pilots, evaluate latest research, I hope they take into consideration CO2 of travel to work and related activities)

Realized that it too slow either.

Extintion Rebellion
Putting pressure on politicians to do what? To declare state of emergency and do what?

For sake of argument, let's assume you have all the attention in the world - what do you want to say?

All the parliament guys are on the same page and there is political will, what precisely do you do?

Recently at Extinction Rebellion: https://twitter.com/MichalStefanow/status/1150772629923672069 (not my vibe)

Effective Altruism
Check the problem profiles, existential threats: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/

Recent Nobel Peace Prize was a joke.

"for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"

The intention was good - they raised awareness, draw attention. Too bad none of the countries that actually have nuclear weapons signed it.

Back to Plan B
Plan B

It can be profitable.

People have a natural will to live.

I thought that the concept itself can bring attention, but we are to busy with business as usual.

Repurposing Military Production

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_housing
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth

Triple Bottom Line

 * Reestablishing priorities of civilization.
 * GDP measured in dollars is far from ideal.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness

Reality Check
This is wiki. If something unclear, need more explanation - please edit.

In many cultures, people are too polite to express their genuine opinions.

Here we are in the camp unapologetic direct feedback, see Core Values

I like the Plan B because it's easy to explain and offers a practical way for humanity to survive:
 * scalable
 * incentives
 * risk-reward ratio (massive upside potential while limited risk)
 * collaboration

Related Links About The Main Author

 * https://genesis.re
 * https://mailhustle.com - Facebook and Google are using your data to drive shareholders profit, let's change the game
 * https://astralship.org - coworking living space in Wales. Wish I was better with numbers and business plan

Your Action Points
Can you find a place for Plan B in your local community, maker space, university?

The incentives of an individual are to ฿uy ฿itcoin rather than dedicate resources towards an open-source project, that's why the community aspect is essential.