I've found myself thinking about adaptation this last week. Or perhaps more precisely, how much we adapt.
In some areas, we've adapted well, such as home working although in others we've proved impatient, such as holidays and travel and in others, such as considering the root causes of why we are where we are we are highly resistant. Following on from "research groups" at Westminster, we now have "recovery groups", as though somehow we can analyse away the challenges we face. I wonder whether dinosaurs ever had "meteor research groups". If they did, they never made it to a meteor recovery group.
I think we are at the complex interesction of three major forces; firstly the structural challenges we face - climate change, population change, biodiversity loss and other major issues we can do little about in the short term, and where we need actions now to mitigate in order to give those who follow a chance to recover. These are long term issues requiri…