deep adaptation
deep adaptation noun: a concept, agenda, and international social movement to confront societal collapse caused by climate change.
Noun (1)
deep adaptation (uncountable)
- A concept, agenda, and international social movement to confront societal collapse caused by climate change.
- “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.”2019 November 22, Nafeez Ahmed, “The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun”, in Vice
- 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.2020 December 26, Jonah E. Bromwich, “The Darkest Timeline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Noun (2) capitalized: Deep Adaptation
Deep Adaptation (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of deep adaptation.
Forms of deep adaptation
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Origin of deep adaptation
Coined by British researcher and academic Jem Bendell in 2018, perhaps modeled after deep ecology etc.
Questions about deep adaptation
- What does deep adaptation mean?
- Deep adaptation means a concept, agenda, and international social movement to confront societal collapse caused by climate change.
- What part of speech is deep adaptation?
- Deep adaptation is a noun.
Words near deep adaptation in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: deep adaptation (page history and authors); Deep Adaptation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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