>>7970943My rats comment was directed towards this:
>2. There would be no "uninvited animals". The only animals there would be the ones that could survive consistently and coexist with the humans. The Earth works itself out like that.Which is ridiculous because we hardly control the animals that populate our urban spaces as it is. We are not 'Masters of the Environment'. He proposed that the only animals that would survive are the ones that 'coexist' with us. Rats, cockroaches, insects etc... all swarm over our current cities that don't have plants growing everywhere. You can't just introduce an entire ecosystem through plants into every city with many layers of verticality.
And I never said I didn't want 'green and trees', I live in the countryside. I dislike people and urban areas and would never want to live there. I like trees, I live right next to woodland, but there is enough of a separation by small gardens and fences, even then deer, foxes and other animals roam into the streets and gardens at night, and that is when they have their own environment and sometimes there are just tons of bugs and midges in my garden.
If you introduce sprawling woodland into cities hanging off buildings mixing with hot fumes, ventilation, constant watering etc... You are going to end up with humid buglands complete with toxic fungus and mould and tons of pollen that the city denizens will reject.
The only way to control that would be through constant trimming and replanting and copious use of pesticides etc... and then the pollen issue. You would be living in your high rise and mould, bugs, leaves would be coming into your apartment from the window, you would have your air conditioning breaking as plants and fungus grew into it for the heat.
There are ways we can go forward but the sci-fi plants everywhere high-rise city is a pipe dream that looks great in art but would have tons of problems.
There are ways to do this but the modern city-scape is a bad fit.
