deep adaptation
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A concept, agenda, and international social movement to confront societal collapse caused by climate change.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "“Deep Adaptation has become an international movement now, with people mobilizing to share their grief, discuss what to commit to going forward, become activists, start growing food, all kinds of things.”"
- "One criticism that emerged of Deep Adaptation more specifically was that this vague forthcoming disaster that Mr. Bendell was describing was already happening to many people — just not yet to the Western academics, bankers and journalists whose interests he had piqued."
- "Another is the British academic Jem Bendell, who advocates an approach he describes as “deep adaptation” to an anticipated “societal collapse”."
- "Deep adaptation strategies also seem imperative to their advocates, because concerned climatologists and environmental activists today are deeply distraught over the prospects of limiting global warming to 1.5 over preindustrial temperature levels."
Etymology
Coined by British researcher and academic Jem Bendell in 2018, perhaps modeled after deep ecology etc.