Optimistic, innovative and confident humans face adaptation challenges

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umans are generally optimistic, innovative and so confident that they can adapt to most things.

Many see global warming and just another of life’s “speed bumps” that will be easily smoothed out through technology and the adaptation that has been the hallmark of homo-species, particularly modern human beings.

However, global warming raises the bar even higher and so the need for adaptation is going to even more pressing and as suggested in a story by Vox, even “messier than we think”.

The story - “Adapting to climate change is going to be a lot messier than we think” – discusses adaptation, saying: It's a hopeful idea. Except you can also find quite a few examples of places where we're doing the exact opposite of that — places where we're actively increasing our exposure to risks like floods and wildfires, either by building more homes in disaster-prone areas or by subsidizing those who do with taxpayer money.”

This is America, but here in Australia, the equation is strikingly similar.