Even infrastructure is all about the people. The Los Angeles Times featured the strong human focus of LA County’s Climate Vulnerability Assessment. When services fail, who does it affect? When they don’t fail, who can we thank? Both of these questions were central to the Cascading Impacts analysis, Bellwether’s contribution to the CVA (page 101).
As Gary Gero wrote in the Foreword, “A key finding in this report is that essential workers are the linchpin of making our society and infrastructure function, especially as we face climate threats. The centrality of workers was made abundantly clear over the past 20 months during the pandemic and is emphasized in new ways in this assessment, which articulates how the people who repair our power lines, operate our transit systems, or tend to those who are ill are crucial members of society.”
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