Picking Cure Over Prevention

Climate science has made one thing clear, global heating is behind today’s extreme weather and it is almost certain that greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet will lead to catastrophic weather again this year.
Unfortunately we have been too stupid to stop the planet warming while we still had the chance so all we can do now is adapt to it and minimise the risks to life from such events where the result is paid for in lives from floods, storms, droughts and deadly heatwaves.
We had COP30 in November but nothing came out of that but it is not the Earth that is danger, that will happily carry on turning whether we are on it or not and with deluded rightwing governments extremely hostile to fazing out fossil fuels, a raging Mother Nature will make sure there will be less of us this time on the Planet next year than there otherwise would be.
It isn't just the poor countries that will suffer, so will the rich ones because it isn't until an incident which kills many people, such as the floods in eastern Spain that killed 230 people, that the politicians actually do something because the investments needed to defend communities from flood, fire and heat are not attractive to Governments.
Due to the missed opportunity over decades to limit the damage and deaths that extreme weather will cause, it is case of us trying to now somehow live with it and adapt to it but the changes which have been made with things such as flood defences and dredging rivers will not be enough when the warming climate really kicks in,  a UN report put the figure it would cost globally to secure ourselves against the worst effects of Climate Change at £310bn annually.
That is on top of the cost of Net Zero and redusing our emissions so the humans on the planet are not in a good place at the moment and we only have our own stupid selves to blame.