Posted on 01/22/2015 11:03:06 AM PST by Twotone
Here's one way to solve global warming: Spend $90 trillion (£59 trillion) over the next few years to redesign all the cities — as in all the cities on earth — so people live in more densely packed neighborhoods and don't need cars.
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I’d contribute my fair share to that endeavor.
I live in Maine, a mostly rural, and heavily armed state.
If these moonbats think the people here are going to move to some densely packed liberal crap hole city, then they are out of their freaking minds.
I wish a nuke would take out Davos. It would be a great day for freedom.
Been studied before (and ongoing): It’s called an “Arcology”. There are places where an Arcology might be a good solution. India, for one, is a mess. Moving the population to Arcologies solves the sanitation problem, the crime problem, the transportation problem, much of the job problem, and the housing problem (allow the rich to buy extra space at a premium in the structure, and the money goes to subsidize apartments for the very poor). The downsides are keeping it running and maintained, and ensuring that everyone knows how to properly use the building’s systems.
However, in most Western communities, Arcologies make no sense. They’d end up as disaster areas because all the “Social Justice” morons would demand all kinds of disparate privileges for their favored group.
That's what Steve Jobs said back in 2000 when he was teasing the roll-out of "It."
"It" turned out to be the Segway, and to my knowledge no cities have changed because of it.
-PJ
Yup.
There’s actually a pretty intricate and closely-coupled web of urban planning activist promotion sites. I stumbled upon one looking for some historic pictures of my wife’s hometown (Louisville KY). Think it was called BrokenSidewalk.
I ended up spending a fascinating couple hours following the trail of links to other sites. There’s a LOT of time, effort and energy being put into them. And the deeper you dig into the links the more radical and authoritarian (collectivist/statist side) they become.
If all the people didn’t have ears, it sure would
be a lot quieter...or maybe not.
Yes, and it would be cathartic, too.
“Really, would it not be far better to round up politicians, “civil planners”, etc and simply throw them off of roofs?”
We may want to keep just a few ISIS members around for that. Imagine the Pay Per View sales.
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That will buy a lot of bulldozers.......................
Not a world I want to live in!
Isn't that what Arcosanti in Arizona is?
Cheaper to develop warp drive with the money and go find another planet to start over with.
And those that are doing the relocating will be shot.
And that is the truth.
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“The $90 trillion proposal came from former US vice president Al Gore, former president of Mexico Felipe Calderon, and their colleagues on The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. That group hopes to persuade the world’s leaders to do something about humanity’s suicidal effort to heat the earth’s climate.”
I know it sounds like a lot of money, but when you include the parking area for all their private jets and the penthouse balconies where the Davos crowd can "observe" the peons as they walk to work, it's really a bargain.
I flashed on scenes from Metropolis and Blade Runner when I read this article - lofty, opulent towers with squalor at the base of them...
Unfortunately city living requires more government and government pseudo-workers have the biggest carbon foot of all with the least to show for it. The reason the cost of living index is higher in cities is because city living indirectly requires more energy consumption and creates more pollution.
Ah! 3D print Venezuelan slums?
You could cram every human body on earth into a cube that’s half a mile wide. Add room for life support and waste disposal, maybe wifi connections, they could easily pack us into a city the size of Macao.
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