Given that many of the predicted effects of climate
change are considered imminent and unavoidable, the need to mainstream adaptation as a viable coping measure among private households is becoming a topic of increasing importance.
«They state: «Sufficient evidence has emerged of stratigraphically significant
change (both elapsed and
imminent) for recognition of the Anthropocene — currently a vivid yet informal metaphor of global environmental
change — as a new geological epoch to
be considered for formalization by international discussion.