Rob Hopkins on Resilience

Often, climate-change thinking doesn’t question the notion that higher rates of consumption lead to individual happiness – it focuses rather on low-carbon ways of making the same consumer goods. Yet as we enter the world of volatile oil prices, resource constraints, and the need to situate ourselves more within the local economy than the global one, we will need to link satisfaction and happiness to other less tangible things like community, meaningful work, skills and friendships.

This quote struck me as I was reading Rob Hopkins' article on Resilience. The article rightly criticises sustainability in favour of resilience.

Rob Hopkins is author of the excellent "Transition Handbook".