5. The class text, “The Climate Crisis”, defines mitigation as actively trying to reduce the progression and severity of climate change through a variety of options that would lessen greenhouse gas emissions. Adaptation was defined as dealing with, to the best possible ability, the consequences of climate change (186). Mitigation tries to prevent the effects of climate change from getting worse while adaptation tries to deal with it as it happens. The NPS Case Studies Report that Dr. Beavers presented to class states that some adaptation strategies could be making an infrastructure stronger against climate change (like redesigning rest areas or build even studier or replaceable roads or moving points of entry to the park), or even deciding
