A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, … More north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. – Fruit farmers in the Piket Bo-Berg, who have been struggling with drought for the past three years, had to adapt their ways of farming to still be able to produce a profitable harvest. (Photo by WIKUS DE WET / AFP) (Photo by WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)
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Climate adaptation needs a business case.
For years we rarely talked about adaptation because it would constitute “giving up”. After-all, why adapt to a warming planet when renewable energy, electric vehicles and carbon…