It's hard to see how adaptation won't end up being far more disruptive to the lifestyles we currently take for granted than if we'd actually put in place measur

It's hard to see how adaptation won't end up being far more disruptive to the lifestyles we currently take for granted than if we'd actually put in place measures 20+ years ago to gradually phase ourselves off fossil fuels. It's hard to imagine that in 30 or 40 years areas like that around Phoenix will be capable of supporting large populations at all for a start, so adaptation is going to look a lot like mass migration away from such regions. That, or living underground...