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Planning for a Different Future: An Overlay of Adaptation and Mitigation
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends upon not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair
Overlay: It is important to be aware that the future will be different from the past. Not simply an extrapolation as we have been able to do for the past several decades. There are four planning approaches that take climate change into account: mitigation or adaptation and their combination, or simply do nothing.
This section is based on the conclusions expressed by the many organizations listed in Appendix A, “The Scientific ...
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