Time: The response to climate change has two sides: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation means reducing greenhouse gases in an effort to slow the pace of warming and lessen its effects. Adaptation means responding to those effects, working to blunt climate change as it unfolds. It`s offense versus defense.
Mitigation gets most of the attention because it mostly involves changing the way we use energy, something that we spend trillions of dollars on. Such shifts can have a huge impact on the economy--for...