If humanity can't cooperate to prevent climate change, what makes you think we can cooperate to adapt to climate change? If one group of people dams a river to

If humanity can't cooperate to prevent climate change, what makes you think we can cooperate to adapt to climate change? If one group of people dams a river to adapt to having less water, and another group destroys the dam so they have more water downstream, then pretty soon nobody has water and they're in a shooting war. If by adapt you mean "grab everything for yourself"... well, I think The Postman was a disturbingly prescient novel. In that story, nuclear war wasn't the real problem, the real problem was "survivalists" trying to grab everything for themselves and preventing society from reassembling. There is no amount of resources you can amass that will protect you from the war of all against all. We must all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately. We must act now to work together to mitigate global heating and avert climate disaster, or when resources get scarce we will not be able to cooperate to divide up pieces of a smaller pie. And if you think the climate crisis will not destroy more than it creates... well, you don't understand the speed and scale of the catastrophe. The natural world cannot adapt at the speed we are changing it, and humans rely on the natural world.