>*’…precarity infrastructures attempt to ward off a loss that they nevertheless anticipate and prepare for. Forged by grief and lacking any promise of success, they are built, over and over again, each an act of ecological hope.’* - Jennifer Clary-Lemon A term coined by [[@Jennifer Clary-Lemon]] to describe infrastructures created to stem or mitigate habitat loss caused by human encrouchment. They give us hope around things we cannot control, such as the future of a certain species. While also allowing us to be active participants in their preservation. I think precarity infrastructures themselves then, need to be practiced for all species. Precarity infrastructures provide hope and resilience against all odds. All construction from now on should be with precarity in mind, for both human and non-human species. It allows us to skip the mental blockage of this will happen in the future, or that it might happen a few hundred years from now. It pulls hope from a possible future, and eliminates despair over possible futures but temporally shifting the scale of action. It says, we might not know what the future brings, but we care enough now to make sure we get through this together. That’s the kind of resilient thinking we need to foster across the board. However, building infrastructures is not enough. We have to shift all the other complex factors that are at play with species loss from habitat and diet, to biomass and pollutants. We also have to make sure these structures are sustainable or we are not doing any species any favors. ## Sources: - [[Barnett, Joshua Trey-2025-Ecological Feelings]] -