The Importance of Adaptation

I am astonished that people who, you know, regard themselves as intelligent, objective commentators on the world still write things which are manifestly untrue about climate change. I feel the world is in difficult times and it's going to be the poorest who are going to get the worst of it. But being optimistic about technology potentially leading a process of political and finance to mitigate those problems does not make me an optimist. If we're going to have 2.5 billion people in Africa, I don't begin to know how we build the conditions where, as many as possible of those people can live decent for complete lives. You know, dignified lives. Yes.

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