Posted by jasondavies 2 days ago
(also terrifying: who is upvoting blogs like this??? is there really a vast underground of people in favor of destruction of the [remaining] environment so we can add a trillion more acres of concrete strip-malls and Wal-Marts?)
It's a little like a bald person putting on a wool hat: great if you're cold, but counter-productive if you're already too hot.
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In the next twenty years we will build as much city as we have so far. In other words in the next twenty years the amount of urban area will double. We've gotta design and build these new cities to be in harmony with the global ecosystem that maintains life support for everybody.
"Building cities with ecological harmony" | Dror Benshetrit | TEDxAmazônia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OrRCGY_lkk
Desert Solitaire https://a.co/d/16MZLfL
This is something "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't" has been great at showing.
Fortunately, it takes no energy at all from inside the United States to manufacture solar panels in, you know, some place, over there, somewhere, that I have trouble pronouncing.
Doesn't matter. I just order them online and they magically show up on my doorstep.
Or at least if they can't terraform the desert, let them terraform "the bushland" first: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bush#/media/File:View_...
This is egregious considering that humans have actually terraformed forests into farms [1], and now 1/3 of the arable land is desertified [2]. How about terraforming it back into arable land by regenerative permaculture [3]? Start there first!
1. https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
2. https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/fores...
3. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-h...
I was traveling through iowa recently. There were ducks floating face down dead in polluted waterways. Algae so thick it looks like you could walk on it. It is quite bad..
[1] https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/03/15/more-than-half-of...