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"The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on
adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse
gases, a leading climate scientist has warned.
Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy in the US and
professor at Texas Tech University, said the world was heading for dangers
unseen in the 10,000 years of human civilisation, and efforts to make the world
more resilient were needed but by themselves could not soften the impact
enough.
“People do not understand the magnitude of what is going on,” she said. “This
will be greater than anything we have ever seen in the past. This will be
unprecedented. Every living thing will be affected.”
While countries can start to adapt to some of the impacts, for instance with
seawalls and flood barriers, and by making their infrastructure more resilient
to extreme weather, if global heating is allowed to continue then the world
will rapidly reach a point beyond what can be adapted to.
“If we continue with business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions, there is no
adaptation that is possible. You just can’t,” she said, in an interview with
the Guardian."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
