Climate adaptation involves adjusting to current or expected climate impacts (e.g., building seawalls, developing draft resistant crops, or updating infrastructure for extreme weather), while climate prevention focuses on reducing or eliminating the causes of climate change (e.g., cutting greenhouse gas emissions, implementing a carbon tax, banning short range flights).

You are a talented, middle-class person in your early twenties about to start your career. You have the choice between a job in which you will make a lot of money and work long hours (e.g., investment banker, corporate lawyer, etc.) and a job which pays less but that you are more passionate about (e.g., social worker, chef, teacher, small business owner, etc).