Every month a new New York is built

Urbanization and construction are advancing rapidly among the human activities that imply the greatest risks for the future of humanity.

This reality places these sectors, along with food, as those that generate the most negative impacts on the planet.

And this becomes evident in the recent Global ABC study, which highlights that the urbanization that is generated in the world is equivalent to building a new New York every month, and that this implies 230 million square meters of new urbanization in the next 40 years. .

A couple of impressive data that the report points out are that the weight of urbanization that humanity builds in just one month is greater than that of all the fish that exist in the world, and that since 2020, the mass of objects produced by humans exceeds that of the Earth’s biomass.

All this, points out this study, aggravates the effects of the climate emergency that we are already experiencing, but, at the same time, all this can be faced by changing objectives and models of design and production of urbanization and construction.