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Deep Adaptation
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<p>Deep Adaptation is a concept, agenda, and international social movement. It presumes that extreme weather events and other effects of <a href="/facts/Climate_change/rEN4BDE7">climate change</a> will increasingly disrupt food, water, shelter, power, and social and governmental systems. These disruptions would likely or inevitably cause uneven societal collapse in the next few decades. The word “deep” indicates that strong measures are required to adapt to an unraveling of industrial lifestyles, following prior usages such as <a href="/facts/Deep_ecology/EdxXPV9v">deep ecology</a>. The agenda includes values of nonviolence, compassion, curiosity and respect, with a framework for constructive action. </p>