Greta flipped the sustainability debate by shifting blame from individuals forced to sip through soggy paper straws to the real culprit that was the industries torching the planet with emissions ๐๐จ
That shift made sustainability mainstream, global, and impossible to ignoreโป๏ธ
Happy Birthday, @GretaThunberg
If anyone is interested in understanding why so many people dislike super-tall luxury towers, you can read this publicly available paper on the topic written by Dr. Kheir Al-Kodman (Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois Chicago).
The paper argues that while tall buildings are often promoted as efficient responses to urban growth, they carry social, economic, and environmental drawbacks that undermine their sustainability.
Socially, towers may reduce community interaction and isolate inhabitants (especially families and children) from ground-level street life, neighborhood connections, and โhuman scaleโ environments. Economically, luxury towers can exacerbate inequality by catering to wealthy elites, excluding lower-income residents, inflating local markets, and contributing little to the broader neighborhood economy (especially when units are foreign-owned, empty, or used purely as investments).
Environmentally, tall towers often require more materials, energy, and infrastructure per resident than lower- or mid-rise forms, create difficult maintenance and fireโsafety issues, cast deep shadows and alter microclimates, and in some cases lead to demolitions or retrofits that carry high embodied-carbon burdens.
In short, the criticism is that many luxury high-rises serve as โvertical silosโ or โmansions in the skyโ rather than integrated, long-term, equitable, human-scaled contributions to the urban fabric.
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Whatโs a couple inches? Watch the new trailer for MATERIALISTS, a fresh take on the math of modern love from Academy Award nominated writer-director Celine Song. Starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. In theaters June 13.
it will find you again. your happiness, your peace, your inspiration. it will reach you eventually, but for now, maybe youโre meant to absorb the waves until you learn the lesson that leads you back to shore.
My new music video What Was That. As little between us as possible. Aliveness over prowess. Naรฏvetรฉ over disenchantment. I LOVE YOU WE START HERE ๐ณฤฟลแฏโทโถ https://t.co/cuSijxfZe3
black mirror is just watching the plot build up to the last 5 minutes which will be the most shocking piece of television youโll consume, and then moving on within seconds to repeat for the next episode