I want to rise in, rise in night and days.

Streets flooded, neighborhoods submerged.

You couldn't say anything but water.

Nothing but water.

This report by the world's leading climate scientist

is released just once every eight years,

and it's pretty grim.

What's new in this report are multiple adaptation strategies that can be successful if the

global temperature rise is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Adaptation is one of

those words that comes up in a lot of different contexts.

And it makes sense, right?

Since the beginning of time, all living things have been changing,

pivoting and adjusting in order to survive.

When it comes to climate change,

conversations about survival have tended to focus on mitigation,

how the world can reduce and eventually end its use of fossil fuels.

But adaptation is the other half of the equation.

It means preparing our homes, our communities, our infrastructure, and industries

to endure the effects of climate change.

This month a blockbuster report published by the IPCC

confirmed the extent to which devastating climate effects are now unavoidable.

These challenges include more intense forest fires, heat waves, hurricanes, landslides, and

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