Are skyscrapers bad for the environment?

Sherrill Botting: Considering that the alternative is suburban sprawl and all that comes with it, cities are great for the environment.

Majorie Chester: Just face the fact that Humans in general are bad for the environment. Animals adapt to the environment they are placed in. Humans adapt the environment to suite them. Examples: Roadways, Air conditioning, Farming, Terri-forming, Energy creating (and that includes solar panels and wind turbines), Flood control, fire control, Forest fires, land clearing, and the list goes on. Seriously, if you want to naturally manage climate and environmental change, eliminate the human race. Until you do that, you are doomed to failure....Show more

Abraham Ladick: Not at all.It is because when unplanned urbanization is done it creates hazards in the environment and vice versa