Quote by Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Your question leaves no doubt that it is a political one and not a scientific one. Go back and tell your communist leaning professor (or whoever else has been feeding you political crap) that questions like these should be under politics and not a scientific site.
Climate change is a political myth, concocted by evil selfish men to ensnare the stupid and unwary.
Quote by Will Harper, Princeton University physicist, former Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy: “I had the privilege of being fired by Al Gore, since I refused to go along with his alarmism....I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect....Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science. The earth's climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past.”
It might, theoretically, be possible to reorganize human population densities so that bulk goods (such as grain) don't need to be transported as far, which would reduce energy spent on transportation. But, short of some sort of global dictatorship or something, I'm not sure *how* you could actually do that.
A more feasible focus would be on reducing the environmental impact of the cities we already have, by, for example, phasing out coal-fired power plants in favor of, well, pretty much *any* other form of energy...
We could probably use the urban heat island effect to prevent the next ice age by building strings of cities around where glaciers have originated during past glaciations. One such string of cities aready exists. The Edmonton-Calgary coridor in Alberta could contain the Columbia Glacier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%E2%...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Ic...
In order to prevent an ice age using the urban heat island effect, another group of cities would be needed in Nunuvit.
How ridiculous, are you suggesting we give up cities and go back to the land?
This planet has 7 billion people and rising, how are we going to feed and support them without industrialization.
If we do not have Cities and urban areas where will people live, how will they work, how will the world go round.
We know that the unsustainable character of today’s urban environments has global implications. Can we reorganize urban regions in order to counter global climate change and undo global climate injustice? How?
