It's said that every 7 days we create a city the size of Seattle. I don't mean anything like the quality of Seattle, what I'm talking about is mostly slums, in developing countries. Very in-sustainable communities built with no existing infrastructure. Whole cities- lacking proper water, sewage, or typically any form of electricity or reliable means of getting food. Weather we realize it or not we, western civilization, is also like this somewhat. Sure we have reliable means of covering our basic needs, but for how long??? If the way we live right now was even remotely sustainable, we would need 10 Earths to make it so. Eventually we WILL NOT be able to continue living the way we do and inevitably "UN-develop" ourselves into poverty.
This is why we need to be creating solutions for all of these eventual problems we'll face sooner rather than later. If we create larger cities we need better ways to travel within them, without holdup. We need sustainable reliable means of getting food. We need to learn to sustain the environment so we can continue to learn and innovate from it. Because without it, we have no means to learn something NEW.
Myself, I believe this is a very important issue, and think about it, does anyone actually like pollution? Traffic?
I sure don't.
Through sustainable and smart practices, these issues are preventable, but without these methods, well, the outcome wouldn't be nice, that's for sure.
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