"Until recently, climate-change activists advocated mitigation of rising global carbon dioxide levels -- adapting to them was considered inappropriate or defeatist. Morgan Phillips disagrees. As the UK-based director of the Glacier Trust, which works with remote Nepalese mountain communities, he pragmatically supports mitigation and adaptation. He advocates that “Western civilization” be urgently but carefully “disassembled” to avoid climate catastrophe. His proposed adaptations seem mostly feasible and humane -- if challenging." -- Andrew Robinson, Nature.com