Understanding climate change adaptation, mitigation predicament

ONE of the most challenging issues boggling the mind may not be the term climate change itself, but rather what is meant by climate change adaptation and mitigation.

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As such, there is so much misfiring, half-truths, redundancies, wild guesses and near-misses, which have only helped to exercabate climate illiteracy, as well as climate poverty through either mistaking one of these terms for the other, by erroneously explaining adaptation as mitigation or mitigation as adaptation or both.

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