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“The whole city was dangerous—because of chemicals and the uneven distribution of wealth and so on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really…

— Peter Clines

“Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises — car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the…

— David Suzuki

As populations continue to increase, and the climate continues to deteriorate, and as people flock in ever increasing numbers to large, underdeveloped cities, the…

— Antonio Guterres

“The assumption that the city, the state, or even the federal government has the plans and the wherewithal to handle this particular crisis is…

— Ted Koppel

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

— Barry Commoner

The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global…

— Al Gore

Fifty percent of the world's population lives in cities. In a couple of decades, 70 percent of the world's population will be living in…

— Michael Bloomberg

The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities…

— Greg Nickels

“Cities balanced on the edge of sustainability, always one step from starvation. When you pressed so many people together, their cultures, ideas, and stenches…

— Brandon Sanderson

The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.

— Patricia Espinosa

“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?”

— Geoffrey West