Myron Belej, RPP, MCIP

Why is so much critical infrastructure critically vulnerable?

Cities that are fully invested in sustainability are not just talking about redeveloping one or two properties a year. They are actively enabling sustainable redevelopment of thousands of properties a year.

When you look at the most featured and publicized environmental speakers, authors and presenters in the world, have they been a force for continued development or sustainable redevelopment?

@BCarfree More cars and larger cars demanding ever-more resources as “security blankets”, leaving the planet in their dust.

@ReadLyte They're not even cars anymore, they're ESVs (Emotional Support Vehicles) that are the size of living rooms. I guess people are dealing with the housing shortage by driving small houses.🙃

There were almost 1.5 billion cars in the world in 2023. Now there are about 1.65 billion cars in the world. More development in the wrong direction when sustainable redevelopment is required.

@dilthi_gujarati Development has caused much destruction which only redevelopment can fix.

Yes We are doomed now as humanity is Destroying #Earth Daily. #HumanMenace are the real threat for Entire Ecosystem & #Animals 135 #Species Going extinct everyday globally. People don't like village life which is super organic and turns to urban cities to make it dirty by Sewages, Air Water Pollution, and they are also destroying Forests for So called Urban Development by Ecological suicide. They destroy trees, Animals, Forests, Rivers for so called comfort of breathing polluted Air in urban carbon traps. Humans are becoming dangerous for the Entire ecosystem. They are becoming a threat and driving 6th Mass Extinction. The greed of humans and the Top 1% Rich Capitalists who are also called deep states are destroying earth daily. Their carbon footprint is ignored deliberately by governments as this same Rich people are funding them to make the government. So it's a complete cycle of Greed, Ignorance, Egoistic Destruction of Ecosystem & Who suffer the most? It's 8.4 Million Species & Poor Human's thriving daily dying due to rich people's greed and money mongering development and war tactics. #HumanMenace faces #NaturesRevenge due to their barbaric Slaughter of #Animals #Forests & #Pollution #SaveEarth #StopAnimalCruelty #ProtectWildlife #EndAnimalExploitation #BeforeMarsSaveEarth #AnimalCruelty #DeepSeaMining #DeepSeaFishing #SaveDolphins #SaveForests #AnimalAbuse #SaveForest #SaveRivers #SaveSoilSaveLife #SaveTrees #oceanone #Aquatic #Mangroves #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #Coexistence

In rural areas, some people were bothered by the smells of agriculture and farming. So now we have urban areas where people are bothered by the smells of garbage, pollution, chemicals, emissions, sewage gas, solvents, and off-gassing.

India lost 668,400 hectares of forest in just 5 years, ranking 2nd highest globally. We are burning our future for a few extra miles of concrete. This isn't development; it’s an ecological foreclosure on the next generation. @PMOIndia @moefcc #InternationalDayofForests #SaveForests #NoAnimalsNoVote downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodi…

1.645 billion was estimated globally in September 2025, so the number may be even higher today. Adding cars also adds tires, roads, parking areas, service stations, infrastructure for fuelling and charging, and more. Redeveloping sustainably is better. hedgescompany.com/blog/2021/06/h…

@Khurpenchinfra The only thing “permanent” with such road infrastructure is the requirement to keep paying for repairs.

How Road crews Permanently Repair Major Asphalt Damage 🤡

Much of the development that led to ‘remarkable additions’ in air pollution should never have been authorized in the first place. Ensure the sustainable redevelopment that fixes it adds remarkably to nature, housing, green jobs, accessibility, local food and resilience as well.

@SDoxat Yes, sustainable architecture needs to replace and rebuild places contributing to excess pollution. The sooner, the better.

@ReadLyte Sustainable architecture is key to helping repair the environment. Plastic grass, paved gardens, rubber infill for sport all pollute and deprive nature. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7526…

@ManOfKent15 Then transmission corridors are justified to connect the industrial power generation facilities (“farms”) to where the power is actually needed. Then batteries. Then more roads and infrastructure. Development keeps growing the industrial machine. Redevelopment replaces it.

Calling solar farms ‘farms’ is a deliberate misuse of our language to make them seem more acceptable. They should be called solar industrial plants or solar factories.

@anup_malani Sustainable redevelopment is better.

A city has slums. Two options: bulldoze and move residents to new housing, or upgrade the slum where it stands. New housing sounds better. Chile tested both for 20 years. It wasn't even close.

Is the algorithm biased for unsustainable development?

Which country needs this fruit wall ??

If an organization puts the word ‘sustainable’ in their mission statement, does that automatically make the organization sustainable? Of course not. The main thing that differentiates sustainable organizations from unsustainable organizations is redevelopment.

@pmeconature Positive results people can see spur more positive results people can see.

@ReadLyte Actions speak louder than signs. From beach clean-ups to redevelopment, hands-on work delivers visible change communities can measure and trust.

At one protest, activists bring signs and megaphones, prepared to ask for policy change. In another city, citizens bring tools and equipment, prepared to complete sustainable redevelopment. Which group will achieve more change people can see?