Posted on September 22, 2021 by Mike
(this article was written for Milwaukee Tool . You can read the original version on the company’s blog .)
In his 2010 piece for the New Left Review entitled “ Who Will Build the Ark? ”, writer and urban theorist Mike Davis posited an intriguing thesis as a counterweight to the bleak climate science of our time: that cities are paradoxically both one of the primary causes of climate change and one of the best shots that humanity has at surviving it.