Science Fiction delights in showing us grim, dark, giant, and dystopian future cities of covered in garbage and where life is cheap, but how realistic are such metropolises and how can we avoid living in them?

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Mega-Cities

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Episode 259; September 17, 2020

Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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