Adaptation Is Now as Important as Prevention

It is time to start working on the consequences

New Orleans has over 350 miles of flood barriers, levees, and gates in place but is continually having to build more as climate change is pushing flooding to become even more violent. Source: Institution of Civil Engineering.

A recent report by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has recently confirmed what we already knew — human actions are having a drastic effect on the way our environment acts. In the past few years we have been reaping the consequences of past human actions: The recent wildfires in Greece…