Above: Comic strip artist Toby Morris argues: Enough with the lifestyle tweaks and good intentions. This is climate change, and we need serious action, now.

In our weekly round-up of the best climate coverage in local media: Commentator Max Rashbrooke says that advocates for climate adaptation over mitigation are making a terrible mistake; economist Eric Crampton writes that risk-based insurance premiums would keep our homes safer; and why managed retreat isn’t the solution tangata whenua are looking for.