New #NYTimes opinion piece from #BradStulberg appeals to taking an allostatic perspective (advertising his new book?). Stulberg should have dug deeper to CS Holling's Adaptive Cycle from #ecology. Same idea but older and with theoretical framework to support it.
"Stop Resisting Change" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/opinion/how-to-accept-change.html?smid=tw-share
Opinion | Stop Resisting Change
With the right mind-set, adapting to change can be a force for growth.
This is fundamental work in the area of resilience thinking that we teach in 200-level courses in sustainability. Holling viewed the goal of sustainability is not to resist or prevent change but to anticipate inevitable change and make small changes early to mitigate the damage of eventual larger changes.
The Adaptive Cycle describes how all systems will grow and diversify, use up resources, become conservative and efficient under scarcity, and then collapse when newfound interdependencies from efficiency seeking are unable to cope from an exogenous shock, which starts the process again.
Ted Pavlic (he/him)