Climate adaptation isn’t surrender. It’s survival.

The skyline of lower Manhattan is reflected on the top of a monument as wildfire smoke from Canada shrouds the sunrise in New York City on July 18, 2026, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. | Gary Hershorn/Getty Images In 2019, the AI researcher Rich Sutton published a short essay called “The Bitter Lesson.” Seventy years of AI research, he argued, kept demonstrating the same thing: the most effective ways to train AI rely on raw, brute-force computing power — simply scaling up — rather…