Thursday, September 13, 2012

USA Today: "Global warming will be a fait accompli in 30 years, and so these urban Americans will raise their own food"

City living will feel like a blast from the past – USATODAY.com
SEASIDE, Fla. -- In the next American metropolis, people will live in smaller homes, relax in smaller yards, park their smaller cars in smaller spots. They will be closer to work, to play and, above all, to one another.

Global warming will be a fait accompli in 30 years, and so these urban Americans will raise their own food, in fields and on rooftops, and build structures to withstand everything from hurricane winds to Formosan termites.
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Twenty minutes east of Seaside on the Gulf Coast is a striking sight: a development, unfinished because of the economic collapse, where all the buildings, including the cement tile roofs, are painted stark white to reflect sunlight. They're made of concrete and steel to resist hurricane winds and "super-termites" that may arrive as the climate changes.

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