>What is the alternative to adaptation and confidence in human ingenuity?

Actual adaptation to mitigate the looking predicted catastrophic change in climate? You have demonstrated that you are willing to lie to me and yourself to avoid confronting the possibility of the world being severely damaged the change that is occuring, to the point of attempting to claim that it isn't.

Doing nothing isn't adaptation.

>Which we are not.

Who is we? There are already tens of thousands of deaths occuring each year thanks to climate change, either directly or thanks to the stress that change is placing on existing fragile systems.

Your statements remind me of the villas outside London in the 4th century, still enjoying their baths, oblivious to reality.