Shanghai Metropolis

After reading another Shift Happens Statistic, I was once again shocked. In one city in Shanghai there are more skyscrapers than the entire West Coast of the United States. For the last six years, a 30+ story building has been completed every 12 days. Think about the resources it requires for the people living in that city to build all of those skyscrapers! That is a lot of steel, glass, drywall, and everything else that goes into putting a building up. I think that if I lived there, I couldn’t stand it. There would be constant noise and debris falling from the construction sites. Life would be made so much more difficult if you ask me. There would be roads that were constantly being shut down so that nothing fell on the cars or whatever the reason is that roads are closed due to construction. But when I really think about it I just come back to the shock factor. One city has used more resources than the entire West Coast! That is Washington, California, and Origen. I find all of these statistics that Mr. Fisch posts extremely fascinating and I hope to find more of them to respond to in the future.