Climate adaptation isn't surrender. It’s survival

Here’s an unpopular opinion in some circles: We are going to have to use technology to adapt to the worst effects of climate change.

Technology will help us survive climate change.

For far too many years, the world has been talking about slowing down climate change. With some success: The state of California now uses 30 percent renewables to power its grid. For the past two years, the UK has gotten more than half its energy from renewables instead of coal. The 2015 Paris Climate Accord was an actual, unironically gigantic accomplishment in terms of global cooperation on this existential issue.

But that’s not enough. The level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is now at its highest level in human history, at 415 parts per million. Scientists say the last time this was likely the case was 3 million years ago, when seas were at least 50 to 60 feet higher and major ice sheets didn’t even exist.

Read the Wired story - “Climate adaptation isn't surrender. It’s survival.”