Resilience & Climate Change

In an hour on coastal climate change, On Point addressed options for coping. Having lived on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and understanding East Coast objections to wind energy and West Coast offshore oil platforms, I was interested in this program’s conclusion, in spite of how improbable it may now seem. It discussed resilience, not as returning to what was, but as learning to live with the climate (with coastal changes) as did native nations for hundreds, thousands of years, including in Orange County. "If everyone looked at the ocean as a living entity...with whom we're supposed to have a respectful and reciprocal relationship….the decisions made for what happens in those waters would be quite different….we'd see a really different iteration with how [humans] interact with these coastal spaces" Angela Mooney D’Arcy, Sacred...Institute for Indigenous Peoples: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/09/26/lessons-from-california-on-how-to-adapt-to-sea-level-rise