BNB into your city
In 1900, more than 85% of the world’s population lived in rural areas. Today about half of us are based in cities worldwide, and this proportion is projected to increase to more than two-thirds by 2050. At the same time, expanding cities have been cut off from nature across the world.
A compelling body of evidence suggests that cities are not safe places to live. Worldwide, millions of people die each year from the effects of air pollution, because cities are not flood or heatwave resilient, or simply because of stress induced by nature-deficit disorder. Go read this if you don’t believe this last one: ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ Is Really a Thing.
The Bringing Nature Back movement (aka BNB) is getting stronger, and urban settings are not being spared. Indeed, more nature in cities generates a myriad of direct and indirect benefits:
- Enhancing air and water quality
- Cooling streets and reducing energy consumption by protecting buildings from heat
- Reducing noise level
- Reconnecting communities by providing outdoor space for people to meet, children to play and the elderly to sit
- Improving resistance to flood and sea level rise
- Protecting and restoring biodiversity
- Increasing productivity at work and performance at school
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Πηγή: climateforesight.co
