A heat dome canceled America's 250th-birthday parade and left 800,000 homes dark — with a week of warning. The flaw isn't the weather: it's a grid where the price signal dies at your meter. Three real redesigns: dynamic pricing, France's Plan Canicule, Seville's named heat waves.
Venezuela's twin earthquakes killed thousands. Chile survived one 90× stronger with 525 deaths. The difference isn't seismology — it's system design: liability, inspection incentives, and a feedback loop that fires once in fifty years.