Insightful and timely. We talk all the time about physical infrastructure that will be needed in a warming world. We also really need to talk about cultural infrastructure.

One of the biggest reasons cultural infrastructure exists is to create environments of trust.

You don't travel to a foreign city unless there is a high degree of certainty they won't rob, murder, and eat you. You go, because you have "trust" that won't happen.

Trust flourishes in times of plenty and withers in times of want.

We will need to rebuild our cultural infrastructure. Societies faced with Climate Disaster in the past, that have failed to do so, perished.

In my LiBT-04 piece I review Jared Diamond's book "Collapse". The chapter on the vikings in Greenland is what makes the book for me.

The didn't have to die. Diamond makes it clear that they could have easily survived by adapting the lifeway of the Inuit people they encountered. They died because they would not change their cultural infrastructure to respond to their changing physical reality.

Denial is what kills them. Not the Climate.