Book review: Great Adaptations, by Morgan Phillips

Morgan Phillips is a director of The Glacier Trust, a charity working with communities affected by climate change in Nepal. In getting involved in that work, he says that he has been shocked at how little attention the environmental movement pays to the issue of adaptation.

Climate adaptation is treated with caution because the movement would rather focus on preventing the climate crisis than learning to live with it. Adaptation can feel like giving up. But what gets forgotten in that de...