Protecting against this now could mitigate future catastrophes.
In such cases, outsiders have three choices: to escalate the catastrophe, to do nothing, or to mitigate the catastrophe.
Developing solutions and taking action is necessary--and the bottom line is that there's plenty that science and scientists can do to help avoid or mitigate environmental catastrophe.
They have already begun to cut funding for measures that might mitigate environmental catastrophe.
One would think that those fabulously blessed royals and sheikhs and emirs would have been lining up to back the UNHCR's attempts to mitigate the catastrophe that has overtaken millions of their mostly Sunni Arab brethren.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was proposed to be a vehicle by which industrialized nations would support the poorest nations of the world to mitigate climate catastrophe and simultaneously continue to grow their economies and quality of life without having to rely on fossil fuels.
The potential role that local governments can play in the long-term vision must be fully explored; toward this end, experimentation and pilot projects should not wait to mitigate this catastrophe.
One does find a faint glimmer of new hope in the BP ascension to demands from the White House of $20 billion to mitigate their oil catastrophe.
Were we able to find the way to keep capitalists deeply aware of externalities, and block them from doing any societal harm, we could build a better capitalism - and perhaps prevent, mitigate, or postpone the catastrophes threatening us in this century.
Only a climate nihilist could so viciously attack the measures introduced under the previous government that were designed to assist people on low incomes, prevent harm to peoples' livelihoods and the economy, and to (in some small way) mitigate the global climate catastrophe.
