Planning has long been viewed (and implemented) as a top-down process where central authorities far removed from the field impose solutions from above. There are alternative systems of planning that involve dialogue, negotiation and reconciliation between peripheries and centers. Of course, to make things work all stakeholders have to be involved with no single sector being privileged in results.

If and how humanity will survive climate change will depend on a value system based on cooperation, not competition. Spreading this consciousness will be imperative, irrespective of whether mitigated or adaptive strategies are employed.

nice post, I have been busy with some adaptation plans, I followed more of them, and I am quite worried about them.

I can see how the whole process behind climate change mitigation can
have results, by identifying what pollutes and how it can improve, but I cannot with all these climate change adaptation processes.

Yes, I believe that it’s can be important to protect a city from sea level rise, and such. Or a countries agriculture. But I’m convinced that the negative effects will be bigger that the positive.

Planning is an extremely difficult and dangerous game. There are too many speculators on the watch to hijack the whole processus, and the citizens are unable to control it (don’t count on accountability when it comes to something as obscure as climate change mitigation).

Yes, Climate change adaptation promotes the idea of building resilience, but if you look at its logic, there’s no way climate change adaptation won’t destroy more of it. Planning always does more harm in a context without social justice, or a middle class whatsoever. Just look at what havoc other big ideas cause; for the same reasons.

It’s just very easy to see how climate change adaptation (not to mention fighting hunger, or eradicating poverty) can be hijacked in the half of africa, to promote industrial agriculture and wipe out resilient traditional agriculture. How this works is a lot more logical that what climate change adaptation thinks it can pull of.

I’m not against planning, but not on this scale, and under this ambiguous framework.