Preparing for the Worst: Adaptation Becoming Crucial Part of
Climate Change Plans Differences in philosophical, economic and
cultural outlook changes an area's reception to the need of
climate change adaptation. Prayer flags in Bhutan, photo:
Wonderlane via flickr. After years of being relegated to the
sidelines or talked about only in hushed tones the idea of
adaptation strategies for climate change is increasingly being
talked about on equal footing with the need to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions. In a new piece for Yale Environment 360, Bruce
Stutz discusses this trend and what different adaptation
strategies might look like:Overshoot of Carbon Reduction Targets
Very Likely The background: Publicly most climate change
scientists and policy-makers put on a happy can-do type of
countenance, but when you attend conferences where things are a
bit more sober and earnest, there's often much less optimism
present about actually being able to prevent the worst of
climate change. Stutz quotes Wallace Broecker of C