Al gore wants to spend $90 trillion redesigning every city on Earth.

Jimmy Garlic · 27-01-2015 04:42AM #1

I thought this was satire when I first saw it. Apparently not...

Here's one way to solve global warming: Spend $90 trillion (£59 trillion) over the next few years to redesign all the cities — as in all the cities on Earth — so people live in more densely packed neighbourhoods and don't need cars.

Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/plan-to-spend-90-trillion-redesigning-cities-without-cars-2015-1?r=US#ixzz3PzQ3kD8D

Turtwig · 27-01-2015 04:48AM

Climate change aside, it's in every city's future interest to become as energy efficient as possible.

27-01-2015 04:53AM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I thought this was satire when I first saw it. Apparently not...

Oh no, he's super serial.

cerastes · 27-01-2015 05:02AM

where will he put his swimming pool?

Jimmy Garlic · 27-01-2015 02:18PM

Turtwig wrote: »

Climate change aside, it's in every city's future interest to become as energy efficient as possible.

Sure. But do you want to live in Al Gores dystopian wet dream? You can be sure that Gore, with many ostentatious mansions to choose from, won't be living packed into one of the sardine cities with the little people.

qt3.14 · 27-01-2015 02:21PM

World military expenditure is in 2-2.5tn bracket so we could do it with no extra taxes in a couple of generations of we were serious about it

c_man · 27-01-2015 02:23PM

Al gore wants to spend $90 trillion redesigning every city on Earth.

I suspect the Sindo are actually behind this. A fiendish scheme to get the construction sector roaring again.

The Backwards Man · 27-01-2015 02:26PM

Ultimately, this will have to happen anyway. Populations are too scattered, even in big cities

ireland.man · 27-01-2015 02:29PM

Al gore wants to spend $90 trillion and you'll never guess on what!!!!!

"Turns out the $90 trillion is the total of infrastructure investment that is likely to be spent anyway building and upgrading cities. Gore and Calderon are arguing that it be spent more wisely, to produce cities that don't incentivize people to burn fossil fuels just to get from A to B."

No need for a click-bait headline, it's actually quite reasonable stuff.

Harry Palmr · 27-01-2015 02:30PM

Who's got 90 trillion handy?

MonkeyTennis · 27-01-2015 02:31PM

Down the back of the mega sofa!

K4t · 27-01-2015 02:32PM

It's stories like this which remind you why the Republican party is so popular in the US.

Jimmy Garlic · 27-01-2015 02:33PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Ultimately, this will have to happen anyway. Populations are too scattered, even in big cities

It would be a lot easier to control vast numbers of people too when they are all packed into relatively small areas with no personal transport.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 27-01-2015 02:35PM

Apartment living is perfectly reasonable if the apartment developments are properly designed and built. Here in Germany the size and quality of apartment developments are in marked contrast to the pokey little dens of misery found in many parts of Ireland. For example, I was able to have a sauna installed in my apartment last year. Hardly achievable if I had to live in a Liam Carroll built flat off the South Circular Road.

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-01-2015 02:35PM

Would it be a Hiroshima style demolition of existing structures?

The Backwards Man · 27-01-2015 02:37PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

It would be a lot easier to control vast numbers of people too when they are all packed into relatively small areas with no personal transport.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

ireland.man · 27-01-2015 02:37PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Would it be a Hiroshima style demolition of existing structures?

"Turns out the $90 trillion is the total of infrastructure investment that is likely to be spent anyway building and upgrading cities. Gore and Calderon are arguing that it be spent more wisely, to produce cities that don't incentivize people to burn fossil fuels just to get from A to B."

El_Dangeroso · 27-01-2015 02:39PM

He lives here:

http://www.urbansplatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bs2-jpg.jpeg

Something about practice and preaching..

My name is URL · 27-01-2015 02:39PM

Kinda misleading article and thread title tbh. $90 trillion is the projected cost for investment needed to modernise and upgrade city infrastructure worldwide.

Gore and Calderon are just suggesting that the money be spent in a smarter more forward looking way.

ireland.man · 27-01-2015 02:41PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Kinda misleading article and thread title tbh. $90 trillion is the projected cost for investment needed to modernise and upgrade city infrastructure worldwide.

Gore and Calderon are just suggesting that the money be spent in a smarter more forward looking way.

Yeah, I'm surprised by how many posters reply with criticisms of the plan based on the headline of the thread alone

conorhal · 27-01-2015 02:45PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Kinda misleading article and thread title tbh. $90 trillion is the projected cost for investment needed to modernise and upgrade city infrastructure worldwide.

Gore and Calderon are just suggesting that the money be spent in a smarter more forward looking way.

A smarter way of spending the money would not be carbon trading (another comodities market for traders) or this guff. If we spent the bloodly money on researching 22nd century technologies, rather then medieval ones like windmills, I'm pretty sure that I only be charging my iPhone's graphine battery every 30,000 years or so from the cold fusion reactor under my sink in the kitchen by now!

Jesus Wept · 27-01-2015 02:46PM

A ****ty solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
My fav bit was the picture of a ship on top of a building.

He's lost it since he invented the internet.

ireland.man · 27-01-2015 02:48PM

conorhal wrote: »

A smarter way of spending the money would not be carbon trading (another comodities market for traders) or this guff. If we spent the bloodly money on researching 22nd century technologies, rather then medieval ones like windmills, I'm pretty sure that I only be charging my iPhone's graphine battery every 30,000 years or so from the cold fusion reactor under my sink in the kitchen by now!

I'd love to see huge sums put into developing new technologies but it's too risky to assume we'll invent something that'll fix everything in the future. Better to fix what we know are problems now.

oceanman · 27-01-2015 02:52PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Id say most people would think its a bad thing!

stillalive88 · 27-01-2015 02:53PM

qt3.14 wrote: »

World military expenditure is in 2-2.5tn bracket so we could do it with no extra taxes in a couple of generations of we were serious about it

Would not be too bad of an idea. Considering how much times have changed, most european cities are designed on medieval standards...

Areyouwell · 27-01-2015 03:06PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Al gore wants to spend $90 trillion redesigning every city on Earth.

Or maybe we should use it to make sure, that everybody has enough food in their stomach and a warm cosy roof over their head at night.

jimgoose · 27-01-2015 03:06PM

Could they not just plant some nice trees here-and-there and use bicycles a bit more in city centres?

Egginacup · 27-01-2015 03:08PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I thought this was satire when I first saw it. Apparently not...

So it's just cars that cause greenhouse emissions, is it? How do you transport goods between cities? Exactly....TRUCKS. How are people going to get out to the countryside? OK maybe in an electric car or electric train. But some of the biggest contributors to fossil fuel emissions are ships and aircraft. Until you get electric ships and planes in action your lack of cars is not going to solve the problem.

You need your fuckin head tested, Gore.

force eleven · 27-01-2015 03:51PM

Where will he put the Polar bears?

YFlyer · 27-01-2015 04:14PM

There be self sufficient garden skyscrapers.

Iwasfrozen · 27-01-2015 04:19PM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Sure. But do you want to live in Al Gores dystopian wet dream? You can be sure that Gore, with many ostentatious mansions to choose from, won't be living packed into one of the sardine cities with the little people.

I'd rather live in Al Gore's dystopian wet dream than modern Dublin. It's impossible to rent a decent apartment in this city.

Al gore wants to spend $90 trillion redesigning every city on Earth.

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