What It Takes to Turn Cities Into Bulwarks Against Climate Change
A letter from the editor of Bloomberg Green
Rooftop solar panels peek out over the facade of a row house in Brooklyn.
Photographer: George Etheredge/The New York Times/Redux
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Grownups look straight past the nuts and bolts of the city. Power lines and drainage grates go unseen. But my 8-year-old notices, even those up above the row houses. “Look at that,” Felix says, “there’s one with solar panels.” It’s a forerunner of the next city that he sees—the resilient cities we’re going to have to figure out how to make before a third grader is old enough to vote. “One day, son,” it’s tempting to reply, arm sweeping over the residential blocks, “all of this will be solar panels!” And it will, too, because what’s the alternative?