Dealing with it. I’ve been arguing that my research is in some way relevent to this.
Specifically, I’ve been arguing of late that a model of technology is important to consider climate change adaptation strategies - e.g. to cost them, to make arguments about it in policy circles.
When I last visited by dear friend, economist Kathryn Smith she argued that this is bollocks, since any conceivable gains in technological efficiency are dwarfed both in magnitude and in variance, by the costs of climate change mitigation - essentially, she posits, an couple of orders of magnitudes of improvements in industrial process make at most a few percent difference to the projected bottom line costs of climate change - In any case, the project costs of runaway climate change are very large and also highly uncertain. A few percentage points just vanish.
Hm.