Autonomous adaptation to climate change is a less explored facet in the climate change adaptation discourse. An inquiry into the forms of adaptation that take place autonomously and spontaneously was initiated with an understanding of the exposure to multiple climate events induced by climate change as the characteristics of the exposure also determine the adaptation. Further exploration into the everyday adaptations to the changing climate at the individual level in one of the most exposed districts in the country led us to the observation that how cumulated everyday responses towards the effects of climate change involve the nexus between the environmental and socio-economic as well as the political process. The interactions between these processes while dealing with the risks imposed by climate change, especially on nature-based livelihoods such as fishing and agriculture. This also exposed the existing inequalities in the existing social structures and to different forms of social transformations. In the coastal village of Melthura, the catch primary fish varieties took a toll due to the warming oceans and rising sea levels had forced them to change from where and how they carried out their fishing. These modifications made the fishing community change the way the boat owners and the labours shared their risk. In addition, it polarized the community based on the source of investments and brought about animosities, especially on the coast rather than in the seas.