Today, Oasis-Cities will be ridiculed. Tomorrow, Nimbys and the forces of the status quo will fight to prevent it becoming a reality. The Day after Tomorrow, it will be hailed retrospectively as the obvious solution to all our societal and environmental problems – and the greatest advance since the dawn of civilisation.
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The idea of OASIS CITIES came about due to my lifelong aversion to the hideous sprawl housing development that – for the past 100 years or more – has been chewing-up and obliterating our countryside, bloating and ruining our historic towns and villages and eradicating our woodlands and wildlife.Of all the many problems in search of solutions which the media is constantly bombarding us with, “global warming” (now re-branded as “climate change”) is arguably the most intractable. But, if our earnest eco-pundits are united on any one thing it is that electric vehicles (EV’s) are an indispensable part of any solution to our eco-woes. Sorry, but EV’s are just as harmful as ICEv’s but – MORE IMPORTANTLY – they are a huge distraction from the real eco-culprit – the elephant in the room which everyone seems totally oblivious to – the unwieldly inefficient size and structureless SHAPE OF OUR CITIES which makes public transport hopelessly inefficient, thus making cars almost indispensable for getting to work, shops, schools, leisure pursuits, etc..!We cannot begin to solve the eco-crisis unless we dispense with this reliance – and that means building CITIES THAT DO NOT NEED CARS..! But, the more I thought about the problems, the more it occurred to me that ecological threats – serious as they are – are just the tip of an enormous iceberg that threatens to sink western civilisation itself..! OASIS CITIES could be the solution not just to pollution and waste, but a whole host of seemingly intractable issues which are steadily piling up. Armed with this GAME-CHANGING CITY concept, I often feel the urge to jump into TV eco-discussions like Superman announcing portentously “Listen good citizens – if you were to build Oasis Cities all these problems you keep agonising-over would simply evaporate..!” I feel confident in saying that almost every ecological, financial, and societal problem that can be named can be solved – or at least greatly ameliorated – by OASIS-CITIES. I believe the OA-city concept is the key to unlock a series of hidden doors which open onto an infinite range of possibilities and innovations in ECOLOGY, ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, ENERGY, HEALTHCARE, POLITICS, PUBLIC SAFETY & SECURITY, SOCIETY, SUSTAINABILITY, TRANSPORT, and you name it..! And, for the cherry on the cake, OA-Cities will even finesse the problems and discomfort caused by BAD WEATHER..!!!