Net Zero City: The Ten Year Transformation Plan: How to Overcome the Climate Crisis by 2032

Morris, Langdon

ISBN 10: 8465361150 / ISBN 13: 9788465361157

Published by Independently published, 2021

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Synopsis:

The Urban Innovation Imperative

There is now no doubt that the destiny of humanity lies in our cities. The human population crossed the halfway point around 2010 on our journey toward becoming a fully urbanized civilization, and each day the populations of our cities continue to increase while rural populations decline.

This urban growth is occurring in a time of great turbulence, and due particularly to worsening climate change, the fate of these very cities is now in question. Will they thrive, or will they be overwhelmed by tumultuous storms and bitter droughts brought on by climate change?

Much of the human situation during the next century will be defined according to our capacity to adapt to this new, entirely unprecedented, and frightening set of climate conditions. But in fact we have no choice but to adapt, which also means that we must innovate, and prolifically.

So perhaps it is our ability to innovate that will largely determine our fate. Innovate well and we can survive and thrive; fail to innovate and we are doomed to prolonged suffering and decline.

The necessary innovations will be developed across countless dimensions of modern society. They will involve how we build, what we build, and what we build with. They will impact our systems of food and water, our ideas about a healthy economy, our approaches to governance and decision making, and our use of technology.

And perhaps most of all, they will involve a fundamental change to the energy infrastructure of civilization, both where we get our energy from, and how we use it. CO2-producing fossil fuels will be replaced by sources that do not produce greenhouse gases, a switch that’s going to be expensive and disruptive, which means it’s a technological, economic, and social transformation.

But with it also comes a unique and enormous opportunity.

While many have resisted the need to abandon fossil fuels since to them it means sacrifice, in fact the necessity to innovate at this scale, across the entirety of human society, is a very rare gift. We can now focus our efforts on assuring sustainability, livability, equity, and quality of life for everyone. Thus, the climate emergency actually offers us the chance to remake critical aspects of our society to be much better than they ever were during the fossil fuel era.

And this transformation will be led by our cities. Cities are the unique milieu where civilization was created, and today they are the innovation catalysts where the transition to a new and sustainable society will emerge to change the world.

This book is about important interventions, integrations, and innovations, and about how to conceive, design and implement them in a meaningful way for a new or existing city. It offers a Transformation Roadmap for cities, providing multifaceted pathways to overcome the Climate Emergency by attaining Net Zero.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Net Zero City: The Ten Year Transformation ...
Publisher: Independently published
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good