Humanity has at least two ways of dealing with climate change: adaptation and mitigation. Adaptation means dealing with the effects of a warming planet, while mitigation means trying to prevent the planet from warming in the first place. In an ideal world, we would do our best to mitigate and adapt as needed, but ours…
How Poor Will the World Be in 2050? It Depends.
Oxford researchers say acute poverty could be eradicated in some of the poorest countries by 2033. A United Nations report says extreme poverty could swallow up 3.1 billion by 2050. How do we reconcile these claims?