634. Adaptation as a response to climate change. Notes on the downsides of a mainstream paradigm.

Abstract

Adaptation is a proposal that has generated a great deal of attention addressing climate change. In the dominant version circulating through academia and governments, it is presented as a essential response to new and changing environmental conditions. This view is problematic because it deals more with the effects than with the causes of the climate crisis and evades the strictly political and economic content of the problems around them. Following political ecology authors, the article questions its potential as a profound response to the climate crisis. The article concludes that genuine solutions to the crisis will come from approaches that place at the core of the analysis the relationship between climate change and the production model of humanity and nature at the centre of the scene, an aspect that has no place in a framework such as that of adaptation.