Think or swim: reassessing our adaptation to climate change
By: Jones, Kit
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Publisher: London EMAP Publishing Limited 2014Edition: 2 July 2014 .Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Architectural reviewSummary: The debate on climate change has probably become boring for most in recent years. Two polarised and entrenched camps with over-rehearsed positions have offered little possibility of progress. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest assessment of the science of climate change this spring, they were faced with the unappealing task of communicating to an audience whose minds were made up.
The message − ‘adapt to survive’ − quickly rippled across the world’s media. The lead author of Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability says that climate change ‘isn’t some future hypothetical’, but is happening now. The foregrounding of adaptation should offer an opportunity to move the debate on and may be looked back on as a turning point. Sadly, the reaction didn’t offer much hope for improved public discourse.
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The debate on climate change has probably become boring for most in recent years. Two polarised and entrenched camps with over-rehearsed positions have offered little possibility of progress. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest assessment of the science of climate change this spring, they were faced with the unappealing task of communicating to an audience whose minds were made up.
The message − ‘adapt to survive’ − quickly rippled across the world’s media. The lead author of Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability says that climate change ‘isn’t some future hypothetical’, but is happening now. The foregrounding of adaptation should offer an opportunity to move the debate on and may be looked back on as a turning point. Sadly, the reaction didn’t offer much hope for improved public discourse.
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