Our interest in adapting
to climate change needs to focus on our cities.
Something like 75 per cent of the world’s potential population
of nine billion is expected to be living in our cities.
Our cities, along with deforestation and the breeding of
livestock for food, are pushing climate change beyond survivable limits and we
need to urgently consider what we should do ensure their liveability.
It was in 2010 that the University of Melbourne’s Professor
of Urban Policy Studies, Brendan Gleeson, published his book, “Lifeboat Cities”
in which he was optimistic about correctly planned cities being our refuge as
climate change really began worsen life.
Writing in a story headed “Sweltering in the city: Surviving climate change in our great urban metropolises”, The Carbon Brief discusses rapid population growth and the profound
impacts urbanization is having on our environment.
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