 Julie Fox, an epidemiologist with the State Department of Health. That's really where we're trying to get people to go to understand it does mean that you need to have a backup plan for how you're going to live your daily life to adjust to this. For many on the western side of the state, the smoke situation is still new, but everyone will have to learn how to adapt, says Fox. Adaptation in the climate change and health field means changing individual behavior and one's local environment or home,