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Darrel Moellendorf, "Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2022)

New Books in Philosophy

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The Importance of Adaptation in Catastrophes

I think of catastrophes primarily as those, those changes that exceed human adaptive capacity. And this could happen if, you know, with polar polar, with polar ice caps completely melt there's no going back to the state in which we had polar ice caps again. But, but what's I think most important with respect to catastrophe are the kinds of climactic changes that are there are that we can't adapt to that exceed our adaptive capacity.

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