In the middle of the last parliamentary brawl over pricing carbon emissions in Australia, a Liberal-voting friend pointed out to me that we should be paying more attention to adaptation. He was referring to strategies that address vulnerability to climate change, such as poverty reduction, education and building institutional capacity. Adaptation includes infrastructure such as sea-walls, drainage systems and early warning protocols.
At the time, I took it as an irresponsible deflection. It didn't make sense to talk about adapting when we had not even taken steps to circumvent the things to which we would adapt. It felt like a defeatist position to take when a legislative window had opened to mitigate climate change.
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