opinion | The paradox of adaptation to climate change

Faced with accelerating global warming, action is being played out on two levels: reducing emissions and adapting. On the one hand, to avoid an unbearable rise in temperatures and the extreme elements that would accompany it; on the other hand, adapting to climate change that has become inevitable in order to limit its deleterious effects, such as premature deaths caused by this summer’s heat waves.

In political speeches, strategic plans and public efforts, adaptation takes a back seat. This relative deficit of attention and action is paradoxical.