Great Books: Randy Cleveland, RPP on The Age of Resilience, Part 2, August 13 , 2024

Randy Cleveland, RPP on The Age of Resilience: reimagining existence on a rewilding earth (2022) by Jeremy Rifkin
Climate change, along with the increasing scale and frequency of extreme weather, pandemics, species extinction, human inequality and distrust of the ‘other’, are among the many cascading consequences of convulsing capitalism and the exhaustion of rational consciousness. Many technical and political pathways of reparation, reformation and transformation have been proposed. Among them is the ‘Green New Deal’, which has been either ratified or recommended by the UN, the European Union, China, the United States, Canada, and others. Jeremy Rifkin- an academic, consultant, and activist-is often either the author or the inspiration behind these long-range, broad-scope plans. The consolidation of his life’s work, The Age of Resilience, explores the linkages between punctuated civilizational transformation, and the socio-political organization of the economy and its communication, transportation, and energy infrastructures. He proposes that the organizing principle of mechanical ‘efficiency’ must now be transcended by the principle of living ‘resilience’ in complex adaptive socio-economic systems, founded on deep empathy and biophilia. Rather than isolation among things, he aligns with a glocalized network of processes and flows. Rifkin is listed among the world’s most influential social thought leaders.
Randy Cleveland, RPP, with degrees in Human Ecology, Architecture, and Urban/Regional Planning as well as senior management experience at all levels of Canadian government, has worked to bring complexity science and integral consciousness into the everyday life of civil society. His focus has been leading creative professional teams in the policy development, planning design, construction, and operation of regenerative infrastructures and landscapes in primarily indigenous communities in the Canadian and Russian North. As Senior Advisor to Canada’s Ambassador of Circumpolar Affairs to the Arctic Council, he coordinated their intervention on climate change at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, SA. Randy is a doctoral student at Ubiquity focusing on how to co-create archetypally with the emerging future in a world on the edge of radical regeneration.
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