Climate change has been a pressing global issue for decades, often characterized by dire predictions and bleak future scenarios. Many people feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem and uncertain about the effectiveness of efforts to combat it. This sense of inevitability often sparks a debate about whether the focus should shift from prevention to adaptation.
If we do not stop emitting, we will continue to change the climate. Therefore adaption to new climate reality would have to continue forever unless we stop emitting.
That is not to say we do not also have to adapt. The rise in temperature is already at a level, where continuing as normal is no longer feasible. Those adaptions are a huge part of the cost of polluting our planet with fossil fuel emissions. Hence we have to make the polluters pay for it.