Since people and governments have been ignoring the problem for about thirty years, people will have to practice harm reduction AND adaptation. There is no other choice now, although there might have been once. The changes we are seeing now are just the beginning of a cycle that is already established.

We simply have to stop wasting everything - water, gas, food, energy, and time. No more talking about it.

As the Red Queen said to Alice in “Through the Looking Glass” -

“‘Now, here, I see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’

Ladies and gentlemen, on your mark…

How do we live with global warming?  Who’s the we, if by the end of this century it turns out that the Arctic & Antarctica are the only habitable places on earth, and how much food will there then be, and for how many of us and/or our children?  A one degree Fahrenheit temperature rise, if that’s indeed the best case scenario, still beats the 2.5 - 8 degree that’s projected if we continue to do nothing. Who’s behind this defeatism, anyhow?  Is there an oil-industry funded think tank involved here?  Will they be the ones to do the triaging when it’s down to who is and who isn’t going to be allowed to livei. “Sorry, no food for you today, being that there’s barely enough for those of us who are in charge.” Hey, this is about the survival of life on earth.  Hell no, we won’t learn to live with global warming.