Representational PhotoEvery climate crisis pushes Kashmir to search for the next big fix. That wisdom slowly disappeared when Kashmir entered a construction boom in the late 1990s. Climate change has forced Kashmir into many difficult debates. Old wooden houses still standing in the valley pose the same simple question: If these walls protected families through generations of harsh seasons, why did Kashmir stop listening to them in the first place? Real progress may come when the valley stops considering its architectural past as history and starts treating it as tomorrow’s blueprint.