Consider any pre-megaquake southern California, where people who could afford to live anywhere else, would still build their castles on visibly eroding cliffs, just because the view was to die for. Or, further north in San Francisco itself, where a cataclysmic earthquake levels the city once or twice a century, and yet, it continues to grow and even thrive. Even in the rift worlds it has come back in spectacular fashion, such as in the “Fractured Frisco” instances. Then there are the flooded worlds with their half-submerged canal cities, and the midwest—places like Kansas City and St. Louis that had to adapt to new neighbors after the Saurians re-emerged to complain about the fracking. We humans are resilient and determined, but also wasteful, short-sighted, and quite often, too foolish for our own good. And yet, we survive.