For businesses, climate adaptation is no longer a dirty word — it’s survival
It wasn’t long ago that “adaptation” was tantamount to “surrender” in the climate world, an assumption that bracing for bleak climate realities was an admission of the failure to mitigate them. “Al Gore, in 1992, called adaptation ‘a kind of laziness,’” wrote Molly Wood in Wired magazine. “It’s like saying we’ve lost, and the best we can do now is hunker down and hope to save as many as we can.”