From an ecological viewpoint, any urban region is a desert that harbors a hoard of ravenous javalinas. Ones that have air conditioning, S.U.V.s, and huge carbon hoof prints. Cities take and take from the world's resources without providing anything of environmental merit, but a habitat for pigeons, rats, cockroaches, and maybe an alligator or two. As the urban heatsink and emmisions raise average temperatures and the ungodly amount of daily waste is dumped in the oceans, planet Earth is losing her fight against these malignant tumors. There must be a drastic change; the planet needs treatment.
Two options come to mind. #1 make towns and cities greener by breaking from globalism and the concentric ring urban design so that the surrounding regions aren't confined to funneling all of their land's resources toward high population densities for profits, at terrible cost to ecosystems. Urban farming with multistory greenhouses has been atempted in London, and is being planed in Hong Kong. Peoples Park in Oakland is an example of a functioning community garden.#2 Bomb them off the map. Hydrogen fusion bombs are very destructive, and much less radioactive than a nuclear power plant core meltdown. If the cities so delt with were across seas the fallout would be of negligable consequince. Closer targets could be eliminated with mustard gas or anthrax. Any long term impacts could be waited out in a bunker stocked with T.V. dinners, guns, and porn.
