{"id":7305,"date":"2015-04-14T07:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2015-04-14T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:29:40","slug":"the-essentials-of-resilience-in-a-world-of-growing-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7305","title":{"rendered":"The Essentials of Resilience in a World of Growing Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thehopefulrealist.com\/2015\/04\/07\/the-essentials-of-resilience-in-a-world-of-growing-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Essentials of Resilience in a World of Growing\u00a0Chaos<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>By now, it ought to go without saying that the evidence is in \u2013 after all, global warming has been recognized by scientists for decades. The accelerated release of \u201cgreenhouse gases\u201d since the dawn of the Industrial Age is now causing accelerated warming of the planet with multiple interacting deleterious effects. We just don\u2019t have time to argue the scientific consensus vs. the propaganda of the growth economists and industrial apologists. It is what it obviously is. Far more important challenges than \u201cclimate deniers\u201d lay ahead. Resilience will be the key to meeting those challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The most urgent question today is what must be done now and in the near future to achieve major mitigation of carbon emissions. The second most urgent question is: What can we do to adapt to the inevitable effects of climate disruption already \u201cin the pipeline\u201d?<em>Mitigation\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0adaptation<\/em>\u00a0go hand in hand, although adaptation without mitigation is akin to seeking a more comfortable collective suicide. Without rapidly reducing the release of greenhouse gases, conditions will become so extreme that humans and many other species will be unable to adapt and survive. The species-extinction rate is already extreme by evolutionary measure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation and Adaptation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, resilience must be understood as the ability to both mitigate the sources of climate change and adapt to climate disruption in just the right balance. This must be done in the context of improving knowledge of the climate changes that are already occurring. We know that some of the processes are also accelerating because of interactive positive feedback loops. But the methane and CO2 releases from nascent arctic permafrost melting are not yet accounted for in the current IPCC climate change models. We need to know and immediately act upon the most strategically important climate disrupting factors. We must choose those factors with both the greatest impact on climate and the most potential for rapid and radical mitigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Essentials of Resilience in a World of Growing\u00a0Chaos By now, it ought to go without saying that the evidence is in \u2013 after all, global warming has been recognized by scientists for decades. 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