Climate change is only one of the many environmental strains placed on our planet, but it has become the symbol of a transgenerational and irreversible process when compared to the human time scale, and it entails great efforts as far as mitigation and adaptation are concerned. Our civilisation has to face a momentous challenge, which combines unexpected climate scenarios with overpopulation issues, shortage of natural resources with accumulation of waste that the biosphere cannot metabolise. Hardly accepted at the cognitive level, the climate change issue is not addressed with the proper urgent and effective corrective actions. Nonetheless, there are a variety of individual and collective measures that have already shown to be rational and successful both from an environmental and economic-strategic point of view. Energy efficiency, renewable energy, shortened distribution chain for agriculture, waste reduction, are all practices that contribute to the growth of domestic and social resiliency in view of a future inevitable contraction of resources.