If we want to survive as a species , we will have to be in monolithic mega - city . live at one with nature is just crap idealism from the past , and the suburbia are nothing more than archaic residue of racist white trajectory patterns . So says futurist - environmentalist Van Jones . He is n’t afraid to piss multitude off , and utter the dreadful , and you may see him at his good in a late interview .
In the interview , Jones said :
The time to come of all humanity , and most species and systems , will be shape by what we select to do with cities . The idea that the environment is about critters and creek is a thing of the past times . We have to be thinking about these affair in terms of consumption and electric pig processes of mega - cities .
He tot up :
Sprawl is a reply to racial care and anxiety on the part of snowy elite . The ‘ burbs were project as a fomite to get aside from multitude of people of colour , adorn more in the white infrastructure as they travel aside from the city , and the neighborhood where people of people of colour live .
Does that think of the only environmentally - sound , antiracist thing for whites to do is move back to the inner metropolis . Yes , it does .
Interview with Van Jones[Alternet ]
Environmental
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