An architect as an entrepreneur can just as well decide which services he offers and which he does not. He does not have to take every customer or fulfill every wish. Customer and service provider have to match.
I will also not become a master butcher if I want to tell my customers at the counter how unhealthy salami is, that one kilo of ground beef produces 13 kilograms of CO2, and that the veggie alternatives taste better anyway.
The point here was that young architects are supposed to think that way. I consider that very unlikely.
... as long as we insist on wanting to live as always.
A classic conflict between conservatives and progressives with the age-old mutual game of declaring something impossible or unavoidable or simply denying it.
Can you justify "It simply doesn't work" convincingly without reducing contexts to unrecognizability?
Okay, then very simply for you: Take the example of Tesla. Do you really think Grünheide, the neighboring communities or eastern Berlin will manage without new building areas once the Gigafactory is up and running? That it will somehow work with building gap filling and renovation of existing buildings?
Or imagine you are mayor of a popular suburban community in economic upswing and almost every week young families, volunteers in the fire brigade, in sports clubs, etc. call you complaining that there is neither a house nor a building plot available in your community. What do you think will happen to your community in the medium to long term if you just shrug and refer to the climate debate?