{"id":3463,"date":"2010-01-04T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2010-01-04T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:13:48","slug":"can-sustainable-urban-design-and-landscape-architecture-help-combat-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/can-sustainable-urban-design-and-landscape-architecture-help-combat-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Can sustainable urban design and landscape architecture help combat global warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Watching Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth<\/em> at one sitting led me to the following conclusions:<\/p>\n

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  1. The film is excellent and has much to teach college lecturers, both about the analysis of complex issues and about the the use of words & images in presenting an argument.<\/li>\n
  2. Gore’s argument is weakened by his homepage link to a Buy Now<\/strong> button on climatecrisis.net<\/a> – regardless of how he shares the profits. It makes him seem like a greedy evangelist on TV.<\/li>\n
  3. Gore’s list (below) of Thing’s You Can Do Now<\/em>, is ultra-trivial and may have set back the cause by encouraging politicians to believe that little change is necessary. The film mentions population growth but it is not on the list, doubtless for ‘political’ reasons.<\/li>\n
  4. The best commentary on the issues comes from Justice Burton. He said the film is ‘broadly accurate’ but listed nine inaccuracies<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. A landscape approach to urban design can do more to combat climate change than Al Gore can imagine. We can and should:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n