Reframe Climate Policy Around Well‑being

Climate policy should treat temperature reduction as an instrument, not the ultimate goal: governments must prioritize interventions that directly protect people and ecosystems (cooling, housing upgrades, public‑health measures, local adaptation) and weigh mitigation spending against near‑term human harms. That shifts metrics from degrees to lives, infrastructure resilience, and social vulnerability. — If adopted, this frame would reorder budget priorities, alter the evaluation metrics for climate programs, and change political coalitions by foregrounding adaptation and welfare over abstract global temperature targets.