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Adapting to Climate Change as a Social Innovation Program

Some news on NPR, and probably other news outlets, got me thinking about climate change - science, impacts, controversy, politics. What can be done? I assume you know there are really two questions here: (1) How do we adapt society to the realities of climate change? (2) How can we reduce the impact of human activity on the climate? The second question seems to produce more controversy because not all of us believe that human action, activities that generate greenhouse gases, even affects the climate. The first question is a little easier to swallow, even for climate science critics. Going on an assumption that efforts to adapt to the realities of climate change would make sense to most people in the United States, we can jump right to the next step. What do we do? To review what I've learned, and what you may have learned as well, climate change is causing chaotic weather around the globe. Hurricanes and tropical storms are more numer...