I love trees! It’s why I could never live in a place like Phoenix. Maybe Trump’s trillion dollars infrastructure budget could include one of these cities? Make America Beautiful Again? Damned Chinese! How do they fo it??
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China is constructing the world’s first forest city where all buildings are covered in plants and trees to tackle global warming and air pollution.
The Liuzhou Forest City will be home to 30,000 people once completed in a few years’ time.
Offices, houses, hotels, hospitals and schools will be entirely covered by a total of 40,000 trees and 1 million plants of 100 species. They will absorb almost 10,000 tons of CO2 and 57 tons of pollutants per year and produce around 900 tons of oxygen.
The city will be built in the north of Liuzhou in the mountainous area of Guangxi, south China, in an area that covers 175 hectares along the Liujiang river.
It will connect to Liuzhou with a fast rail line and roads for electric cars. There will be various residential areas, commercial and recreational spaces, two schools and a hospital.
Houses will have air-conditioning powered by geothermal energy and solar-panelled roofs. The project commissioned by Liuzhou Municipality Urban Planning has been designed by architects Stefano Boeri Architetti.
The company says the plants and trees will decrease the average air temperature, create noise barriers and improve biodiversity by providing homes for birds, insects and small animals. Building begins in 2020.
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The trees and plants tackle warming, not GloBull Warming. Haven’t you ever driven on a rural 2 lane road surrounded by trees on a very hot summer day – the air temp is 10 degrees F cooler. Forest destruction is the biggest cause of any anthropogenic caused warming, along with asphalt paving and cement structures.
Unless fines are in place, people will destroy the trees and plants to obtain a better view.
Those trees and plants will require trimming each year by qualified individuals – start your education today and then your business by the time this city opens.
Too many trees and you end up like the Mayan’s: https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-mayan-city-discovered-under-190701122.html
BTW, Phoenix has trees,
Several of them.
A tree grows in Brooklyn.
A good movie.
One of the few remaining trees in Phoenix:
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Not Phoenix.
Dave, this is a typical TBP joke: find an offensive pic of a flea infested ranch and call it LLPOH’s new home in Aussie, a clinic where the women save their spot with their sandals and call it a Latino welfare line, a picture of Kanye West to accompany a story about a food bank…you get the idea,
The reality will be more like this.
https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/04/22/property-executives-get-life-in-shanghai-building-collapse-case/
The USA has more trees now than there were 100 years ago, NASA mapped the tree cover of this country and I believe you can access those maps.
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/trees-america-100-years-ago/
So they have satellite photos from 100 years ago, and today?
Temperature records too.
When people moved out West, the government required some homesteads to plant trees on the prairies. Could account for so many trees growing where they didn’t before.
What happens when the tree becomes root bound? Or worse … The tree roots start exploiting weaknesses in the structures? Can’t even begin to imagine the water being wasted on the potted forests.
Trees and other plants are an important part of the hydrological cycle. They move water around in the air as well as underground. Desertification is when there are no plants (or extremely few niche outliers).
The plants on balconies and so forth needn’t be trees with giant taproots. My MIL had rubber plants, citrus, and myrtle bushes and what-have-you growing on her balcony for decades, and it didn’t hurt the building. A very civilized screen against the noise and smog of Rome.
On a certain level, it’s kind of cool that China can do these sorts of things by edict. Again while I was living in Italy, I visited a forest that Mussolini ordered to be planted on top of a scraggy mountain that had been used for asbestos mining. I was told that it changed the local climate so much that it began snowing there, and later on they then built a ski resort.
Water + roots? One of the most helpful things a structure can have. Not
Too. Many. People.
Population control now.
It IS the problem.
Guys…don’t fret about too many pesky people, Planned Murderhood is working relentlessly on it…and all you have to do is practice your deep breathing exercises under the Chemtrails…before you know it we (well maybe they) will have Danial Boone elbow room once again!
Fucking Wip, cockblocker extraordinaire. That’s your answer to everything isn’t it?
Killing, deporting, aborting and starving people you don’t like. Asshole.
Forrest Cover by State In the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_cover_by_state_in_the_United_States
The Link includes a good map of above ground woody biomass across the United States. Source: US Dept. of Agriculture.
The North Dakota state tree is the telephone pole.
Had a contract there, in January. It is the worst place in the entire world.
My friend from ND bought a pair of water skis, but returned them a week or two later. He claims he looked but couldn’t find a lake with a hill on it. Any MN lakes have hills?
Was he Polish?
All those who like zoning regulations are to blame for creative structures like these being BANNED across the US. Even in California during their energy crisis, outdoors clothes lines were banned in most communities.
Government restrictions upon private property use are the cause of many issues.
Have to agree with you, MrLiberty. That’s where innovation comes in that can be followed by others.
I once worked in the Texas panhandle. Trees had a very important use there being used as driving instructions for travelers like myself. “Go about 20 miles down this highway and take a left at the tree.”
STUCKY
GO TAKE YOUR MEDS
Stucky- Those buildings remind me of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Only thing is the hanging gardens in that day were on a wall (good doc out there to view on the subject, can’t remember the name) that ran across a natural rock fortification.
Totally dumb on a residential stack and pack high rise. Concrete has enough problems without the weight of those trees and the water to maintain them.
Hey I got a better idea for what to plant. Forget trees. But why China, dude? Their eyes are already squinty. Let’s try it in LA.
I wouldn’t have to walk to a dispensary anymore, growin my own.
Nothing stopping you from growing your own dispensary. Have at it.
Right, they’re going to build another city for nobody to live in? This is a pipedream. It will never be completed. China’s slated to run out of water by 2030. 90% of existing ground water is polluted. Half of their water is so polluted, it can’t even be used for industrial purposes.
Pollution is their Gross National Product .
Aren’t there ways to clean polluted water? Berkey filters, perhaps? Not to mention desalination plants for ocean water. Plant life is good for filtering air pollution, not so much for water pollution.
When I go visit, I shall take two of my wives:
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