Comments on: An Interview with Neil Adger: resilience, adaptability, localisation and Transition http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Resilience. | Learning CME Online http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-70248 Resilience. | Learning CME Online Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:14:01 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-70248 [...] Download video on climate resilience from  http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localis... [...] [...] Download video on climate resilience from  http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localis… [...]

]]> By: Patricia Dodd Racher http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67364 Patricia Dodd Racher Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:20:11 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67364 Pierre-Louis, maybe more thought should be applied to the conflicts between resilience and complex technologies. Pierre-Louis, maybe more thought should be applied to the conflicts between resilience and complex technologies.

]]> By: Pierre-Louis http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67346 Pierre-Louis Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:09:28 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67346 "unless participants tackle the unequal power distributions enforced by multinational corporatism, significantly through the mechanism of the revolving door." Indeed globalisation promotes interests of large companies like Monsanto to become global and "eat up" the small one and create dependancy f.e. with their GM seeds. The latter render farmers dependant on Monsanto for seeds but as well with producers of Roundup and chemical fertilizers, whitout which these seeds would be useless. Well orchestrated and vicious marketing plan. That is the complete antiquation of resilience and should be clearly rejected. But many well know CC experts like David Kind are "promoting" that sort of technical innovations (OGM)because they are going to "solve hunger problems". I wonder how much they are being paid for saying such lies ? The other problem I believe is that many have lost his ability to see long term and wide negative implications of such "innovative technic". Regards PL PL “unless participants tackle the unequal power distributions enforced by multinational corporatism, significantly through the mechanism of the revolving door.”

Indeed globalisation promotes interests of large companies like Monsanto to become global and “eat up” the small one and create dependancy f.e. with their GM seeds. The latter render farmers dependant on Monsanto for seeds but as well with producers of Roundup and chemical fertilizers, whitout which these seeds would be useless. Well orchestrated and vicious marketing plan.

That is the complete antiquation of resilience and should be clearly rejected. But many well know CC experts like David Kind are “promoting” that sort of technical innovations (OGM)because they are going to “solve hunger problems”. I wonder how much they are being paid for saying such lies ?

The other problem I believe is that many have lost his ability to see long term and wide negative implications of such “innovative technic”.

Regards PL

PL

]]> By: Rob Hopkins and Neil Adger on transition towns and resilience | Resilience Science http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67344 Rob Hopkins and Neil Adger on transition towns and resilience | Resilience Science Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:19:36 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67344 [...] Hopkins founder of the Transition movement has a long interview with Neil Adger on resilience, peak oil, and climate adaptation on Transition Culture.  Neil Adger is a professor [...] [...] Hopkins founder of the Transition movement has a long interview with Neil Adger on resilience, peak oil, and climate adaptation on Transition Culture.  Neil Adger is a professor [...]

]]> By: Patricia Dodd Racher http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67343 Patricia Dodd Racher Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:12:25 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67343 Interesting, but I think the word 'globalisation' tends to be used as an abstract, autonomous concept, whereas it is a construct of unequal power relations. I agree that Transition Towns cannot develop in isolation from the wider world, but fear their development will be curtailed unless participants tackle the unequal power distributions enforced by multinational corporatism, significantly through the mechanism of the revolving door. Interesting, but I think the word ‘globalisation’ tends to be used as an abstract, autonomous concept, whereas it is a construct of unequal power relations. I agree that Transition Towns cannot develop in isolation from the wider world, but fear their development will be curtailed unless participants tackle the unequal power distributions enforced by multinational corporatism, significantly through the mechanism of the revolving door.

]]> By: michael Dunwell http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67341 michael Dunwell Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:00:36 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67341 Did the good Professor rather back off when Rob asked him to add peak oil to the equation? I find that academics are almost as paralysed by what's happening as politicians, lawyers, capitalists and my plumber: the reality of energy descent is too hard. And that very academic distinction between sustainability and resilience seemed, well, pretty academic... When its Dr. Hopkins I do hope Rob continues to come at things his own way. Did the good Professor rather back off when Rob asked him to add peak oil to the equation? I find that academics are almost as paralysed by what’s happening as politicians, lawyers, capitalists and my plumber: the reality of energy descent is too hard. And that very academic distinction between sustainability and resilience seemed, well, pretty academic…
When its Dr. Hopkins I do hope Rob continues to come at things his own way.

]]> By: Weekly (weekly) « Southend-on-Sea in Transition http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67312 Weekly (weekly) « Southend-on-Sea in Transition Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:36:52 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67312 [...] An Interview with Neil Adger: resilience, adaptability, localisation and Transition » Transition Cu... [...] [...] An Interview with Neil Adger: resilience, adaptability, localisation and Transition » Transition Cu… [...]

]]> By: An Interview with Neil Adger: Resilience, Adaptability … http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67296 An Interview with Neil Adger: Resilience, Adaptability … Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:32:30 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67296 [...] direction of a social justice agenda? Could one also distinguish a healthy resilience …Continue Cancel [...] [...] direction of a social justice agenda? Could one also distinguish a healthy resilience …Continue Cancel [...]

]]> By: Susan Butler http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67293 Susan Butler Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:22:53 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67293 I agree, as things are now, we're way overbalanced towards sourcing our needs through globalization. By that means we've lost the options we had for producing things locally. Thus an urgent need to relearn local skills. However, resilience is about having as many means as possible, having lots of choices, lots of redundancy. It would be a loss to be completely cut off from global communication and trade. Being resilient at the large scale and thus able to change the way we do globalization could lead to more of a focus on long-term maintenance of the global internet and the trading of ideas rather than maintaining heavy shipping for trading tons of tomatoes round the world, as we do now. We don't have any global ability to make such a rational choice at that level. Still, maybe this choice can emerge at lower levels. Were many localities to get very strong at producing their own tomatoes, the market for centralized production would disappear. Here's an example of how autonomy at smaller scales can contribute to overall resiliency. I agree, as things are now, we’re way overbalanced towards sourcing our needs through globalization. By that means we’ve lost the options we had for producing things locally. Thus an urgent need to relearn local skills. However, resilience is about having as many means as possible, having lots of choices, lots of redundancy. It would be a loss to be completely cut off from global communication and trade.

Being resilient at the large scale and thus able to change the way we do globalization could lead to more of a focus on long-term maintenance of the global internet and the trading of ideas rather than maintaining heavy shipping for trading tons of tomatoes round the world, as we do now.

We don’t have any global ability to make such a rational choice at that level. Still, maybe this choice can emerge at lower levels. Were many localities to get very strong at producing their own tomatoes, the market for centralized production would disappear. Here’s an example of how autonomy at smaller scales can contribute to overall resiliency.

]]> By: Pierre-Louis http://transitionculture.org/2010/03/26/an-interview-with-neil-adger-resilience-adaptability-localisation-and-transition/comment-page-1/#comment-67278 Pierre-Louis Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:44:23 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=3410#comment-67278 I beg to differ with Neil with regard to advantages of a global economy. I really believe that local production for local people with local resources are the objectives of a low carbon development. While a global development foster production across the world with the cheapest manpower in the world and resources pinched wherever they are on earth. Isn’t it that the global system has created the mess where we are ? Regards PL I beg to differ with Neil with regard to advantages of a global economy. I really believe that local production for local people with local resources are the objectives of a low carbon development. While a global development foster production across the world with the cheapest manpower in the world and resources pinched wherever they are on earth. Isn’t it that the global system has created the mess where we are ?

Regards

PL

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