I don't think enough people understand that it's not just roads, bridges, housing, and water systems that aren't designed to current climate conditions - it's mental health systems, insurance systems, emergency response systems, agricultural systems, medical education systems,
supply chains, conflict resolution systems, collective governance systems, and more. Culture too - films, books, and movies aren't yet speaking fully to what people are experiencing.
What most Americans are taught is the purpose of life - security, consumption, climbing a ladder - all of that is less and less obtainable (and some of it more and more harmful) as we get deeper into climate change.
But the culture as a whole hasn't landed on more consistent purposes yet though there are so many purposes waiting to be claimed: healing, repairing, connecting, collaborating, purposes that while hard to pursue provide a deep sense of meaning to people's lives.
...and of course across Helene's path there are people finding that they can rise to these purposes, as people have in every disaster that has been studied.
Anyway, there's no choices yet that aren't change. We change these systems intentionally while we also cope with how they are changed by forces as big as hurricanes.
And adaptation and mitigation both happen in our minds our language our dreams and visions as much as in the designs of architects and engineers.
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