In the article, “Urban Sprawl, Global Warming and the Limits of Ecological Modernization” (Gonzalez G.A. 2005), the author examines the deficiency of the business groups’ approach to solving the climate change. According to Gonzalez’s opinion, because of the booming of automobile industry during the urban sprawl, the higher emissions of greenhouse gases worsen the climate change. The author notes that both WBCSD and ICC insist that technology is a feasible method to solving the global warming, whereas the author is critical to the technological methods.

Three possible flaws which may cause the limitation of the business groups’ approaches are pointed out by the author. Firstly, the author argues that their conception of the ecological modernization is limited and claims that environmentally sustainable urban planning should be involved. Secondly, technological approaches are promoted by these business groups, thus ignoring other side effects caused by these technologies. As a result, business groups believe that the alternative energy seemed to have efficiency of dealing with the climate change, such as nuclear energy. However, such a method may cause other ecological problem instead of global warming. Finally, the author added that owing to waiting for the implement of a potential technology which may not lead to the deceleration of the economic growth, such as hydrogen energy, the environment will be damaged permanently while the current issue of the climate change is not directly solved.

The author proves that because of the weakness of conception of business groups and two problems which are rooted in technology, environmentally sensitive urban planning, instead of the technological approach, could be a crucial solution to the climate