Deep Adaptation

[cjsmith]

I invite anyone who's read the Deep Adaptation paper to explain where they agree or disagree with the author and why. Supporting evidence is particularly welcome, though discussion of gut feel and denial are also obviously pretty strongly related.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

I agree with it. But, I've been tracking the effects of global climate change since the early 80's, as a sort of meta-study. As a result of that, I also read up on the historical evidence for the collapse of prior civilisations, particularly Mayan and Incan and so on, and their cycle of growth and collapse due to ecological degradation.

Basically, I'm saying I'd come to more-or-less the same conclusions based on decades of work.

Although, the time scale is a lot less than I'd expected, but given the way current rends in a climate change are, I'm not surprised. The greenland ice cap alone is melting far, far faster than anyone expected.

[cjsmith]

*nod*

I’m interested in your views on societal effects and the proximate causes for them. Obviously the society we live in today has a lot of striking differences from Mayan and Incan - not least of which is the global connectivity and interdependence. I would think that makes us more fragile rather than less, but I’m no sociologist; maybe it also makes us more robust in ways I have yet to perceive.

(Time to go re-read Jared Diamond, too, probably.)