So this is actually extremely cool, but that article headline, combined with the bit about the Pope weighing in on climate change (again), isn’t doing it any favours.
The pope bit is a separate article. It is intended to be viewed as an email newsletter, which is why there are a whole bunch of unrelated things all crammed into one.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The idea of a building with veins came to Kay during his master’s degree at the University of Toronto, where he studied how marine organisms like squid and krill release pigmented fluids in their bodies to change the opacity of their skin to regulate exposure to heat and light.
“The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change,” he wrote.
While the paper excoriates political and corporate interests for their unwillingness to take stronger action to protect the planet, Francis singles out the U.S. for its high per capita emissions, stating bluntly that “a broad change in the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model would have a significant long-term impact” in healing Earth.
Speaking at the event, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said sponge infrastructure is “no magic wand,” but one action among others — like renovating sewer systems — that need to be taken to mitigate the effects of climate change.
“We started putting sponge sidewalks in 10 years ago in the Plateau and Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie [neighbourhoods], and now we see everyone wants one,” she said, pointing out that some areas, like Centre-Sud in the lower part of the city, are particularly at risk.
Alain Bourque, executive director of Ouranos, Quebec’s climatology and climate change innovation hub, said building more water-retention infrastructure is a step in the right direction, as Montreal receives more frequent and intense rainfall.
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Probably not. Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no. ’
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