Perhaps the most concerning thing about the year 2050 is how soon it will be here.  It is not impossible that I might see it, though unlikely (I would be 97).  However my children will have reached the retirement age I am now, and their children will be in their late thirties and forties. In that sense, 2050 is part of “the present”. In 1992, the prospect of the millennium children reaching their forties somehow  seemed far in “the future” but it was not.  In 1992, the focus was on stopping or at least mitigating climate change, later to crystalise as the 1.5 degrees target. That is  already missed and talk of mitigation, at least in the way we saw it in 1992, is now history.  2050 will be all about living with the consequences.  Antonio Gutterres has implied a dystopian vision, “climate hell”.  That, of course, is a subjective judgement and dystopianism never did anybody any good.  Whatever this “hell” turns out to be it will be heavily influenced by adaptation. If mitigation was the watchword for 2030, then adaptation will surely be the watchword for 2050.