"and... starchitect Bjarke Ingels... plan on creating ""—a... city... home to 5 million... on 150,000 acres... lush greenery amidst a desert ecosystem. ...Bjarke Ingels and ...BIG ...are ...prone to serious cases of . ...Telosa is a ...colossal ...painted green. From a sustainability standpoint, little of this ...makes ...sense. ...As the Western United States grapples with a drought of historic proportions ...placing a city in one of this region’s driest localities is difficult to understand. ...Bjarke Ingels—and similar architects who present their unrealistic, grand proposals as solutions for the world’s impending environmental crises—are arguably the least radical designers... They do not call for systemic change; they call for visual change. Instead of designing interventions in existing places to make them more sustainable... equitable, and more resilient, they give up. The desert is an easy place to go. ...The problems of the old city—the sprawl... pollution, racial discrimination—These can be avoided simply through design... No need to end capitalism... to stop... exorbitant consumerism... to curb our lavish way of life. ...[S]imply abandon the old city and start fresh. ...[K]eep the systems. But... the buildings...'ll be way nicer."