Environmental Urbanization.

The Flooding crisis in Toronto.

With the population increase came urban sprawl, and poor city planning created a concrete jungle. The solution to the problem isn't to make people leave the city, but to change the urbanization of what already exists. The idea isn't to create a camp city, but if we are serious about solving the flooding problem, there must be more green than concrete, the problem is the city is already overdeveloped and things must be re-made in order to accommodate for the acts of nature that will continue. Our earth is a living organism and in order for humans to live in harmony with nature, we have to learn how to respect it. We cannot control God or the natural order of humanity, we have to learn to live with the natural order of nature. Human beings have a collective mind, and we should still use our mind to solve problems, not make them worse!

We cannot fully harness nature, and we shouldn't try, and we cannot fully prevent natural disasters like flooding, but through science we can understand the nature of what causes somethings to happen, and how to prevent them from getting worse. We now know that the flooding crisis in Toronto is caused by too much development and not enough natural space, so our politicians should accommodate for new natural spaces which could absorb the cause of our flooding. How to do this is a political issue, and there must be a political solution. I'm not talking about driving people out of their homes to create artificial wetlands and marshes, but seriously thinking about our current environment, and adapting new ways of accommodating nature. Wishing that it will stop raining is not realistic, we have come this far together, so collectively we need to wish for better environmental planning. It is never too late to take what God has given us, and work with it.

Environmental Urbanization can work in the same way that we plan for the future, and plan for our eternity. Ignorance only fuels the fires of ignorance in that you will only make our society worse by not taking it seriously. We need food to survive, and fuel for heat in the winter. We need to harness things like solar energy for everyone, and make it affordable. Leaving a legacy for our children is a righteous cause, and expecting them to solve it is cruel. This is Mike.

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