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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chosun Juan" data-source="post: 3753058" data-attributes="member: 92780">Yes, that epiphany will be required to push governments to enact such a plan via planning legislation and collaboration, and importantly a whole host of issues around the sanctity of natural capital, and fully recycled and accounted for life cycles of products and services. I don't think it will take beyond our lifetimes - a start now could see a large chunk of it in place by their ends .... wouldn't that be something to see !  :t:The engineering technology is there for mile high buildings - the 828m Burj Khalifa was built for only 1.5 Billion $.  We seem to be flat out constructing a couple of kms of motorway for that spend!  Much the same as Elon Musk has demonstrated the viability of electric cars, it would only take one mile high building for people to sit up and take notice.  I was super disappointed when after 9-eleven that America didn't rebuild the World Trade Centre towers as a single building 1000m high .... too much sentiment and not enough goddammit we'll bl**dywell show you !!I envisage these super towers such that most apartments are home sized each with multiple courtyards for sunlight access, water ponds, greenwalls, veggie gardens, terraces for outdoor living etc. Sunlight could be piped throughout the building with optical fibre cables and diffusers. Large communal sky gardens, parks, waterfalls, atriums, and outdoor decks could be scattered throughout, along with commercial, education, health, and entertainment facilities, etc. Construction could be to such a high standard (which will aid energy efficiency and reduce running costs - actually I envisage the buildings being net producers of energy) so as to offer residents the necessary silence - nothing but the whisper of the clouds floating by, and the odd whoosh of the resident peregrine falcons  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  Electric and Hydrogen FCV'S will go a long way to removing a large chunk of the noise of the cities - as long as we can keep taxi drivers off their horns - actually by that time taxi drivers will largely be a footnote in history ....It was interesting in the last Peter Andrews video that I posted (post#16) that he said that a couple of little rain and flooding events down a creek deposited $100 Million dollars worth of compost/soil !  Reorganizing the world largely in this 'islands of humanity' way will also knock a couple of degrees off average maximum global temperatures too  :t:Chosun   :gh:</blockquote>

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