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Humanity is frantically updating and building its infrastructures during Climate Change but not necessarily the right ones. Infrastructure—gas and oil pipelines, telecommunication networks, water pipes, roads and bridges, waste treatment lines, buildings etc.—is a boring term that describes human built systems that supply 7 billion of us with vital life-sustaining elements. Cave men and women didn’t need gasoline pumps, electric outlets, Internet connections, toilets, a kitchen sink with hot and cold running water, but now humanity does. However, despite the message from climate scientists and the Paris Agreement , we are still putting too much of our time and money into the very infrastructures that got us in this climate mess. Our survival requires that we shift gears on infrastructure development immediately—if not yesterday. World needs $90tn infrastructure overhaul to avoid climate disaster, study finds  Report by Global Commission on the Economy and Climate says world needs ‘...