Your editorial (The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather, 26 December) rightly highlights the urgency of climate adaptation. But to truly understand the scale of what we face, we must confront an uncomfortable truth: the Earth will survive this crisis. It is humanity, and countless other living species, that may not.
As we edge closer to an irreversible point, the climate is becoming less a “challenge to manage” and more a hostile environment in which many will struggle to live. The planet is already adapting to its future. The question is whether we will do the same.
