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{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)In the early days of political action on climate change adaptation was seen as, at best, a poor relation to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions—at worst as a distraction. In his first book on the subject, Earth in the Balance (1992) Al Gore, who became America's vice-president the following year, described it as 'a kind of laziness'.
To talk of such adaptation was equated with capitulating on emission cuts.
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