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plan b for a planet that stopped returning our calls about plan a.
means adjusting how we live, build, and farm to survive a climate that's already changed, instead of only trying to stop it changing further.
from climate policy split into two camps in the 1990s: mitigation, which fights the fire, and adaptation, which builds a fireproof house, since the fire was already spreading.
vs mitigationmitigation stops the problem, adaptation survives it
seawalls examplejakarta is literally sinking, walls buy decades
crop shiftfarmers moving planting zones poleward each decade
funding gapneeds outpace money by roughly ten to one