This culture makes people forget the most basic stuff

Elizabeth Farrelly: “If we were to design a green settlement-pattern from scratch, it would not be suburbia, or urban villages, or Greek fishing towns, or even say, Barcelona. It would be Manhattan. Manhattan — or something like it — is the greenest city on earth.”

https://medium.com/@stevenwelzer/some-remember-or-have-never-forgotten-2c93a0669a0d

How could we ever trust the counsel of an environmentalist who has forgotten that cities are insane?

The Myth of the Sustainable City