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E-International Scientific Research JournalISSN: 2094-1749 Volume: 2 Issue: 4, 2010professional group had done more adaptations to climate change. This could be corroboratedclosely to Mendelsohn’s (2000) finding that individuals and firms likely engage in substantialprivate adaptation with respect to climate change. Recreation and energy were among thosesectors which build interest in possible adaptation measures. He suggested sound actions suchas joint adaptation, but on the other hand offered his reservation due to its shared benefitnature. It will cause individuals to underprovide joint adaptation in areas such as water controland ecological management which are largely evident in the present study.Table 8 Test of Significant Difference on the Lifestyles Between Professionals and Non-ProfessionalsLIFESTYLESPROFESSIONALS NON-Computed ValueX r2PROFESSIONALSTabular ValueDf .05(1)Action Takena. Home 0.40 3.84 Accept HOb. Workplace 0.10 3.84 Accept HOc. Social and Economic Interactions 0.0 3.84 Accept HOd. Home and Workplace 0.1428 3.84 Accept HOTable 8 shows test of significant difference on the lifestyles between professionals andnon-professionals. Result revealed that their lifestyles in the four areas do not significantlydiffer having their respective computed values as: 0.40, in the home; 0.10, workplace; 0.0,social and economic interactions; and 0.1428, home and workplace, with tabular value of 3.84at .05(1) degrees of freedom, which lead to accepting the null hypothesis. This implies thatthough the professional and non-professional groups vary in their lifestyles but whencategorized as practices specifically at home, in the workplace and in social and economicinteractions, these practices do not necessarily differ. This means that embedding behaviorssuch as leaving lights on and leaving water freely flowing from faucets have been acclimatizedeven in different environments resulting to having no significant difference at all in thepeople’s lifestyles. But in this present study, respondents showed great efforts to observe someforms of personal alterations to environmental changes showing not only mitigating but alsoadaptation behaviors such as taking the bus or any public utility vehicles instead of drivingtheir own cars for working professionals; while those not engaged in a profession were tryingto maintain daily routines from the struck of dawn to the wee hours of night.Based on the adaptation, mitigation and suffering choices of Holdren (2007), thispresent study uniquely achieved a popular mix; that the more different lifestyles the individualpractice, the more he mitigates, adapts or aggravates the impact of climate change. Alterationsof behavior at some point, only if given importance, will mitigate potential harm brought aboutby climate change.Conclusion and RecommendationThe practices of office workers and homemakers prove to have increased or aggravatedthe effect of climate change yet they have compelling reasons to be value-focused in someways like being organized, health conscious and comfortable, thus lifestyles of residents in343