ABSTRACT
The more immediate need for physical safety is mainly satisfied, together with part of the need for temperature regulation, by the construction of environments. Even the relationship between temperature regulation, physical safety, and constructs used to their satisfaction stands in a precarious balance between technology, ordinary and extraordinary conditions, and human psychology. Relationships between resource availability/control and conflict, at regional and intranational scales arise not only from struggle over access to resources but also from the differential accrual of environmental costs and benefits to different segments of societies; even less: favorably, the relationship sometimes takes the form of natural resource exploitation financing warfare, as well. Climate change is the most prominent contemporary example, but other changes in ecosystem character and service could grow to global effect as well. The challenge is that current orientation is not even based on preparation for worst case, but only on hope for best in both what change may occur and how societies could adapt.
