Future Cities Overpopulation & Pangloss Palmisano

"We are adding the equivalent of seven New Yorks to the planet every year," which means . . . greater environmental opportunities! Like "monitoring (ever more serious) pollution" and "better allocating (ever shorter supplies for) water use." How does one begin to debate such Orwellian off-planet nonsense? In any case, there is something to be said for the idea that one of the core traits to the rise of a civilization will in the end be one of the core traits to its downfall. In this case a kind of blind almost comically child-like optimism.
--Relating to "The Future of the City," Samuel Palmisano, Newsweek,  1-25-10