ABSTRACT
Resilience must be a central concept for retrieval, which depends on the capacity of communities to bring something like civilisation out on the other side of the unpredictable stresses and dangers to which climate change will necessarily expose us. Retrieving resilience means taking the 'too big to fail' tendency out of all the systems. Retrieval have to be pursued politically in the nature of the case. The political issue in retrieval is also in part a matter of re-learning how to hear authoritatively from the shared wholeness, one more aspect of the need to retrieve a habitable humanitas. The deep issues of politics turn on the sense of human nature, of value and purpose, of the overall human predicament, which is made tacitly in the shared self-understanding of a community of people whose lives are 'politically' interwoven. In relation to these issues, that political movement or impetus is legitimately authoritative, which creatively expresses the daemon of its time.
