Climate change adaptation is getting more funding than mitigation in my coastal town—sea walls, elevated roads—but I wonder if that's just rearranging deck chairs. We've spent millions on infrastructure that assumes a 1-meter rise, yet models suggest 2 meters by 2100. Shouldn't we put more into cutting emissions instead of building for a future we could still avoid? I recycle and drove an EV for two years, but my personal impact is a drop in the bucket next to industrial policy. When local budgets force a choice between a seawall and a solar farm, what's the wiser bet?