If you wonder about the meaning of the word “resilient,” now that the word “sustainable,” and decades before that the word “natural” (I know, I was there; back in the late ’60s using the then unusual word “natural” as a philosophy graduate student to contrast it with the mechanistic scientific world-view), have both been been pretty much co-opted by the mainstream, here’s a screenshot:
Here’s a wonderful url devoted to the topic:
www.resilience.org
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