The author of this article speaks of the environmental impacts that urban growth has on our climate and environment which are mostly negative. If urban growth continues at this rate, there will be irreversible damage to the global biosphere and will highly affect valuable farmland that could be used to feed a fast-growing population. Urban growth will affect climate change because there will be a loss in vegetation biomass and is predicted to contribute about 5% of emissions because of deforestation for the land-use. As well urban growth will have effects on the circulation of water…