In the unlikely event of a trial there will be mitigation, obfuscation and misdirection.
The first leg is mitigation, when countries cut emissions and issue targets.
The fact that someone may have looked 16 or 21 if they were male may be mitigation but it is no defence".
There is mitigation aplenty, but the fact is that the club have just three wins to their name, almost three months into the season.
There should be mitigation in the system to protect school standards and ensure a loss of funding doesn't hamstring local areas.
"There are mitigation things that could and need to be done, but fundamentally there's a limit to what the industry can do.
Another area is mitigation banking, where, for example, a state's department of transportation could buy acres to be preserved forever to compensate for having destroyed land elsewhere.
All of this will just be mitigation, though.
A further strategy to consider is mitigation of risk.
The main public health responses to the projected health impacts of climate change are mitigation and adaptation.
