Hello, Conlaw listeners. We have a brand new mini series that we're very excited about.

It's called Not Built for this, and it launches next Tuesday in the 99% invisible feed.

Check out this sneak preview.

I grew up in Vermont, a state that has occasionally been described as a climate haven. Whenever someone publishes a list of places you should move if you want to escape climate change.

Vermont always seems to be somewhere near the top.

I've been covering climate change long enough to know that no place will be safe.

But I have to admit that I've always found these lists weirdly comforting.

That is until last summer.

About a year ago it rains so hard in Central Vermont that my little green valley filled up like a bathtub flooding downtown Montpelier.

This eerie orchestra that you're hearing is the sound of every security system on Main Street going off all at once.

It felt almost too on the nose, like the universe was ringing some kind of planetary alarm bell,

saying, snap out of it, your quaint little home isn't as safe as you think.

But if my little town isn't safe, is anyone's?

I'm Emmett Fitzgerald and I'm the host of not built for this, a new miniseries from 99% invisible.

And it's about climate change, but it's really about how the complex systems that govern our lives

were not designed to handle the tectonic changes that are coming.

We're going to look at infrastructure and insurance, housing and land use policy,

migration and public health.

We'll meet people leaving the places they love.

When that fire hit, all of a sudden it came clear to me.

Oh my God, we are in it.

This is it.

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