“Adaptive” approach to climate change puts faith in resilience thinking

All Things Considered “Boston Plans For ‘Near-Term Risk’ Of Rising Tides”

My worry here is pretty simple: with the ‘practical’ approach of adapting to inevitable climate change is beginning to gain traction across the United States, the end of near-term denial will fail to pull along our long-term denial. As people begin to contemplate triage responses to climate change, they may delude themselves into thinking that we can ‘adapt’ our way out of the larger, unstoppable long-term consequences of ‘business as usual’.