megacities

Is building megacities a sustainable way of life?

It concentrates resources in a very densely populated area ,sucking away water and other resources from the rural areas thus widening the gap between urban rural disparity in development and income.

Water is used for tourism projects that invariable includes swimming pools,water theme parks and landscaping of golf courses whilst water should be used for farming of fish or food production.

Electricity is pumped into lighting of high rise buildings day and night,air conditioning ,lighting of highways etc whereas in the rural areas there is less usage of electricity.


Natural resources are finite so how can we reduce use of it?

As the economics of overconsumption comes about,what will be the end result?

The mass media draws up the illusions that drives consumption that in the long term is detrimental to sustainable growth.