"According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself."

Megginson¹

Climate Crisis: the catalyst for change

Adapting to a world of continuous change

Chris Dixon

You can find my latest writing on Substack, writing as E.S.P. Adapt.

On Substack you can subscribe for free to receive my newsletter, very roughly one per week, or simply click on "no thanks" and read for free anyway! On Substack you will find:

1. E.S.P. Adapt

Eco-Socio-Psycho, the Big Three, primary perspectives and the roots of permaculture design.

• Truly Massive Returns on Investments!
• Descent, Transition or Collapse, which is it to be? Part 1
• Descent, Transition or Collapse, which is it to be? Part 2
• Tree Planting and Carbon Offsetting.
• The First Rewilding Project in Britain!
• Still Here! Ry'n ni yma o hyd!
• How to crash the fourth richest country in the world
• Tao and Taoism: The Way of Nature

2. The Real Coed Y Brenin.

The unvarnished story of one of the first Forestry Commission plantations in Britain, how the planting of 19,000 acres of exotic timber species led to the eviction of the many tyddynwyr (smallholders) whose families had lived there sustainably for up to three centuries and Coed Y Brenin came to be the unmanaged, fire and disease prone relic it is today.

3. Fiction

Various writings but in particular the six volume meta-pata-fiction of imaginary solutions, Konsk, an optimistic dystopia. One volume The Great Takeover of the Place, is complete and available for free on Substack and a further volume, Heads at the Little Big Farm is currently in progress with episodes appearing regularly. You have the opportunity to feedback your views and ideas for how to shape this ongoing work.

You can also find information and details on Permaculture Design, Paramaethu Cymru and my own place, Tir Penrhos Isaf, which I share with my wife, the horsewoman, Lyn Dixon, on my web site where you will find topics such as:

• permaculture design at Tir Penrhos Isaf
• wilderness regeneration and steering (re-wilding)
• Paramaethu Cymru and adnoddau Cymraeg
• Integral Permaculture Design
• Various resources, writings and handouts
• water management and wetland creation

The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level as the level we created them at." Attributed to Albert Einstein²

 

1. Megginson, 'Lessons from Europe for American Business', Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (1963) 44(1): 3-13, at p. 4.A great variety of different versions arise from this source.

2. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Volumes 1-4. 1969-1970. Attributed to a lecture given by Albert Einstein. Possibly by Ram Dass. As above, a great variety of different versions arise from this source.