Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "기후변화 적응" in Korean language version.
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.
