[scaramanga]

Absolutely this.

I mean, we probably can't prevent it getting worse because of the 10-20 year lead time on CO2/temperature, we're locked in to that.

But if we act immediately now, we can reduce the rate at which things continue to get worse in a couple of decades time.

And even if the situation is runaway, that would reduce how rapidly things run out of control.

Efforts to do that are probably going to have a much bigger effect than a lot of adaptations people are talking about, since some of the changes we're in for are so vast that there isn't going to be much avoiding them.