{"id":26012,"date":"2017-09-22T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26012"},"modified":"2017-09-22T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:46:20","slug":"mitigation-adaptation-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26012","title":{"rendered":"Mitigation, Adaptation & Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mitigation, Adaptation & Suffering<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
In this conversation, the Climate Disobedience Center\u2019s Tim DeChristopher looks at how the progressive movement\u2019s strategies need to change in now that climate change\u2019s real impacts are more obvious to the American public. He addresses the focus on carbon mitigation (policies for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions) in light of the now very evident need for climate adaptation (adjusting how we live to deal with the changes that come with a warming planet), and the resulting suffering (the human, material, and environmental costs of warming).<\/div>\n
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  1. Adaptation and Human Rights<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Suren:<\/p>\n

    Recently you challenged our community organizations and environmental movements to stop acting as if we\u2019re able to forestall climate change and that all we must do is reduce carbon emissions. What\u2019s your general take on this mindset?<\/i><\/p>\n

    Tim:<\/p>\n

    Yeah. Well, that\u2019s definitely been the focus of the climate movement for a long time, has been mitigating climate change, and there has been increasing discussion in some sort of policy circles about the need to also adapt and deal with impacts that will likely be inevitable at this point. One of the great contributions to the climate discourse that I think John Holdren, Obama\u2019s science advisor, made was emphasizing this point that there are three responses to climate change, mitigation, adaptation and suffering, and that it\u2019ll be some combination of those three that will make our full response to it, and the less mitigation we do, the more of the others we will do.<\/p>\n

    At this point in 2017, we\u2019ve gone far enough down that road that we know that there\u2019s going to be a significant amount of adaptation and suffering that will need to happen, because we\u2019ve fallen short in a lot of ways on the mitigation front.<\/p>\n

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