'Deep adaptation' refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare
for - and live with - a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a
framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing
ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. This is the
first book to show how professionals across different sectors are beginning to incorporate the
acceptance of likely or unfolding societal breakdown into their work and lives. They do not
assume that our current economic social and political systems can be made resilient in the
face of climate change but instead they demonstrate the caring and creative ways that people
are responding to the most difficult realization with which humanity may ever have to come to
terms. Edited by the originator of the concept of deep adaptation Jem Bendell and a leading
climate activist and strategist Rupert Read this book is the essential introduction to the
concept practice and emerging global movement of Deep Adaptation to climate chaos.
