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Which of the following startling facts or statistics is not appropriate in this introduction to the thesis “cities have a dark side”? Cities have a dark side. Cities take up just 1 three percen t of the world's surface area, but they account for more than 2 75 percent of our energy consumption , and they emit 3 80 percent of our greenhouse gases . Nearly 4 92 percent of the inventions are made in cities.