Should all countries take both mitigation and adaptation steps to deal with climate change?

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Ithink all countries should take steps in both mitigation and adaptation to deal with climate change because every country needs to contribute to the global effort. The big superpowers, such as the United States, should mitigate and help less economically developed countries who possess a smaller range of resources adapt, so they can carry on with their lives. This would help prevent their land being flooded by rising sea levels. Alternatively, they could be provided with sufficient water in areas where climate change poses a threat and could

become even worse. I do not think smaller countries need to worry about mitigating, because they aren’t the main drivers of climate change, since their volume of carbon emissions are not comparable to more economically developed countries who possess more cars and factories, emitting significant amounts of carbon dioxide.

However, countries like China and the USA need to mitigate as they are the main producers, and even though they have massive populations, they are

producing more carbon dioxide than needed.

These countries with greater resources should find it easier to mitigate since they have the funds to make the whole country drive electric cars or ban activities that are unnecessarily producing carbon dioxide. Also, all countries do not need to adapt because Overall, I believe that not all countries need to both mitigate and adapt but that it is dependent on if they are big emitter or if they are a country that is going to affected by climate change e.g. an island close to sea level or area that could be vulnerable to drought. The countries that may have to do both are the largest emitters and should also help the smaller countries adapt since they have the resources to do so.

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