>he gives a talk titled “Race of Our Lives”—the one between the Earth’s rapidly warming temperature and the human beings coming up with ways to fight and adapt

>he gives a talk titled “Race of Our Lives”—the one between the Earth’s rapidly warming temperature and the human beings coming up with ways to fight and adapt to climate change. Or, the race between the cause coming up with ways to fight and adapt to the effect. It's possible that human beings are the problem and climate change is the "solution".