Why Not Just Adapt To Climate Change Rather Than Trying To Stop It?

[dave50]

After all, the world will never get together to do what the environmentalists insist should be done. It will be like stopping the tide coming in.

[bobbinwales]

Adapt in what way?

[youngmafbog]

Well for a start Bob cater for excessive rainfall etc.

[youngmafbog]

Whether or not you subscribe to the Climate change scam that apparently can be cured with more taxes the need to work with the change remains. Even if true do people a) Think China and India will do anything b) Even if they did it would suddenly reverse?

[Untitled]

it's a false dichotomy

climate change will be much easier to adapt to if we can reduce the degree to which it gets worse and the best way to do that is by reducing greenhouse gases

adapting to climate change will also necessarily involve changing the kind of energy we use and the kind of food we eat.

lastly humans will "adapt to" climate change regardless of whether governments try to or not... for example by leaving areas of the planet that are uninhabitable and moving to areas that are habitable... this is already beginning to happen. we don't really have a choice about whether or not to adapt to climate change - eventually the problem will get so bad that people will either adapt to it or they will die. the faster we do it, the easier it will be... there is no scenario possible where we just carry on like we are. adaption will happen one way or another, but one way will be catastrophic to experience and the other will annoy denialists. i know which i prefer.

[youngmafbog]

Rubbish, people are migrating because of economic reasons.

Albania is fine and not going to be flooded or anything.

[Untitled]

did you know youngmafbog.... that there are some migrants who aren't albanian... and that there are even different reasons why some people leave some areas and other people leave others

[ToraToraTora]

The climate is constantly changing since the formation of the Earth. Only human arrogance would think we have anything to do with that so I don't think anyone is trying to stop it.

[Spungle]

Does anyone really think they can 'stop climate change'?

[Untitled]

we can certainly influence it... we can't do much about natural cycles that make the planet warmer but we certainly could do something about humanity's contribution to greenhouse gases which at present is a very significant cause of warming

[Grumpygrandad]

The biggest threat to this planet is over population. The climate has, and will be, always with us, and the hope of controlling it is about the same odds as me changing gender!!

[douglas9401]

I've already adapted, bought a golf umbrella at Sports Direct to get me through the British 'summer'.

[Peter Pedant]

Adapt in what way?
in the way that someone in a country that is very hot,
travels over land then by train and then....
by boat to England.

it is what economic emigrants do innit
move from a place where they starve to a place that has more food

can me a durrr, but....

[Atheist]

How do you adapt to climate change (if climate change is going in a bad direction)?
Well, you either suffer and die, or you suffer and try to move on somewhere else. If you try to move you will come up against other poor turfs who are trying to survive, and they might not welcome you (we see this already as those short of food and water try to head towards better places).I don't see any way that humans can adapt to climate change without there being huge loss of (human) life.

[Gromit]

That is rather defeatist.
We stopped CFCs damaging the Ozone layer.
We stopped putting lead in Petrol.
Reducing 9not stopping Carbon Emissions IS achievable.

[douglas9401]

A politician's wet dream, getting the punters to pay for air.

[Gromit]

The 2022 world events in order of cost of damage

1. Hurricane Ian in the U.S. and Cuba: More than $100 billion.

2. European drought: More than $20 billion.

3. Flooding in China: More than $12.3 billion.

4. Drought in China: More than $8.4 billion.

5. Flooding in East Australia: More than $7.5 billion.

6. Flooding in Pakistan: More than $5.6 billion.

7. Storm Eunice in Europe and the UK: More than $4.3 billion.

8. Drought in Brazil: More than $4 billion.

9. Hurricane Fionain the Caribbean and Canada: More than $3 billion.

10. Flooding in South Africa: More than $3 billion.

Better to try to avert these huge costs than to keep forking out year after year.

[Spungle]

How are you intending averting these costs?

[starmack]

Looks like climate change has just stopped match as Scotland went one up at home to against Georgia. Lucky not to go one down, though, when ball stuck in water after a deluge…….

[douglas9401]

Don't get the work done by the local council.

Six fully crewed vans to deliver a sandbag.

[Gromit]

By cutting emissions and lessening the greenhouse warming on our climate.

Producing ever greater emissions, and more climate change is causing more natural disasters and enormous annual costs.