Survival of the Readiest

River Thames Flood Barrier, downstream of central London     Ian Nicholson/PA

So the United Nations came out with its 2014 report on climate change. While most of the news coverage of these reports over the years has centered on the warnings they contain, perhaps the more telling point, according to this article, is that their focus, more and more, is not on stopping climate change anymore, as much as it is on adapting to it: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/the-uns-new-focus-surviving-not-stopping-climate-change/359929/