Ms. Wallace Richmond, I'd like to talk to you.
A lot of our focus is on adaptation measures that can be taken to help prepare our communities for the inevitable challenges we're going to face from extreme weather events. I'm not sure there's any amount of adaptation that can prepare us if we don't also mitigate for the conditions that are increasingly fostering these storms.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on how we strike that balance. What is the right balance between mitigation and adaptation if we want to lessen the impact of extreme weather events?