How to know where climate change leads us? Climate scientists have discovered, and elaborately described, dramatic changes in the Earth’s climate which will effect us all. Chemists, biologists and other scientists have joined with physicists and meteorologists in the next phase of the endeavor, projecting the effects of climate change on our planet.
What follows from those predictions are proposals for physical counter-measures to lessen or adapt to the effects. But, what happens after we take those counter-measures, mostly centered on ending our use of fossil fuels? Those adaptations will change the way we live.
The longer-term realities will be living with the disruptions of adaptations necessitated by climate change: adapting to adaptation.
This is the full text of the piece written by IEE Executive Director Ed Church and published by Meeting of the Minds. It synthesizes information from business, governments and start-ups to begin the discussion on how we will live in 2050.