Climate Change or Landscape Change?

Is this really the effects of climate change — or are we feeling the effects of how we’ve reshaped the land?

In the process of developing cities, we’ve replaced forests with motorways, wetlands with shopping centres, and soil with concrete. But this transformation amplifies (if not creates) the very effects we’re trying to escape.

When trees are replaced with concrete, cities heat up. Water has nowhere to go and flooding gets worse. Biodiversity disappears, causing ecosystems to break down. We’ve changed the landscape — and now the landscape is changing us.

Urban areas often feel climate change first and worst — in part because of how we’ve reshaped the land. That’s why SUGi plants pocket forests. Rewilding interrupts this trajectory, bringing back what cities have lost. Pocket forests can reverse the urban heat island effect, reduce flood risk, and make cities more livable — for all living things.