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for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
MANHATTAN AS MECCA If—in America—dense, transit-served cities are better, then New York is the best. This is the clear and convincing message of David Owen’s Green Metropolis, certainly the most important environmental text of the past decade. This book deserves a bit more of our attention, so profound is the revolution in thinking that it represen
... See moreJeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth
... See moreAbrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.