Adaptation and Mitigation of climate change, do I understand the terms properly?

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lokuhtfeswa007

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Hey everyone I'm writing an essay about the adaptation and mitigation of climate change and I'm a little confused about whether ot not I'm right in what I'm thinking. What i think they mean,

Adaptation of climate change: Instead of trying to stop global warming we should simply adapt to live in the new world but still try and decrease global warming but at a much slower rate.

Mitigation: To simply reduce the amount of greenhouse gases over a short period of time and try to stop the problem completely without trying to adapt.

Are my interpretation of adaptation and mitigation for climate change right? I just want to make sure I understand before I start my essay.

THANKS!
 
Your definitions of adaptation as after-the-fact measures and mitigation as preventive seems fine to me. I don't see though, why the exclusion of the other course should be part of the definition. Except in the sense that if we don't mitigate we'll dang well have to adapt, won't we? We'll need both to deal with the mess.
 
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