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ECOLOGY is a vast area of learning, rehabilitation and celebration! A resilient and well informed individual makes better long term decisions, leading towards a steady state. That 'More is always worth more' is not a natural state. Today's ecology is also about divesting from the old maxims of capital, energy and wealth accumulation. Our place within the "Web Of Life" based on emerging science, ecocentric practices and a social understanding of Nature.
The big facts based on science.
1. Climate change cannot be addressed as a stand-alone problem.
2. It is part of a larger systemic destruction of Nature.
3. Current techno-industrial civilization is based on the myth of "Cheap Nature".
4. We have exceeded, way beyond the regenerative capacity of the living planet.
5. Consequently, ecosystems are loosing resilience, to deal with stress, loss and disorder.
NEW ORIENTATION. NEW PATHWAYS IN ECOLOGY.
DEEPER INSIGHTS - OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE.
Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell. The objective is individual and collective resilience (capacity) to face (adapt) climate change and near term collapse. Think small, go local, evolve!
" Cities as engines of economic growth; centers of commerce; seats of government; the loci of great universities and well-springs of arts and culture. Cities are, indeed, all of these things simultaneously – but something is missing. Not many urban dwellers or even urban scholars think first of cities as biophysical entities subject to the same natural laws and con- straints as all other complex living systems.
This is a serious failing. The capacity of cities to function in their myriad ways depends utterly on the integrity of their biophysical relationships..."
