Doesn't America actually waste millions if not billions of gallons of water a year maintaining lawns most people never even sit in? I'm Dutch, I have an absolutely beautiful yard full of trees and just wild growing flowers that I spend maybe 20 hours a year on maintaining, and that's trimming the weeds and making sure my bushes don't grow into titan class entities.
not only this, this picture is Las Vegas, a city in a desert that gets both its water and power from the Colorado River, a river that is literally drying up
Closest supermarket is likely 3 lightyears out forcing you to own a car
These communities are so precariously positioned. Like, westerners joke about the whole Juche mentality of self-reliance, but then you look at this shit and... Jesus. It's like building your house on the edge of a cliff.
I'm still a bit scarred from the Texas freeze. It's been such a slap-in-the-face wake-up call to how fragile the entire American way of life has become.
I joined a fight against a HOA to put a playground in my parents' neighborhood once, the only argument against it was "teenagers will hang out there and smoke" and it got shot down almost unanimously.
Someday not so far off, communities like this will either have to be rebuilt from the ground up or completely abandoned. The alternative is going to be starvation and social collapse. I truly believe that.
The suburbs will not, cannot survive climate change in their current form.
The Netherlands. We are still garbage, trust me. Our politicians have been lying to our face and for some reason the libs in our country decided to all collectively clap, go "YYAASSS KWEENN" and vote them right back in. However our suburbs are a lot better.
They absolutely are. We have pedestrian paths, actual fucking patches of nature and supermarkets close enough to walk/bike to. Are they good? Oh fuck no, but being better than America is easy.
What the fuck is wrong with you Americans I swear.
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Doesn't America actually waste millions if not billions of gallons of water a year maintaining lawns most people never even sit in? I'm Dutch, I have an absolutely beautiful yard full of trees and just wild growing flowers that I spend maybe 20 hours a year on maintaining, and that's trimming the weeds and making sure my bushes don't grow into titan class entities.
not only this, this picture is Las Vegas, a city in a desert that gets both its water and power from the Colorado River, a river that is literally drying up
Water AND power. Very cool urban planning in the age of "nothing will fundamentally change"
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These communities are so precariously positioned. Like, westerners joke about the whole Juche mentality of self-reliance, but then you look at this shit and... Jesus. It's like building your house on the edge of a cliff.
I'm still a bit scarred from the Texas freeze. It's been such a slap-in-the-face wake-up call to how fragile the entire American way of life has become.
I joined a fight against a HOA to put a playground in my parents' neighborhood once, the only argument against it was "teenagers will hang out there and smoke" and it got shot down almost unanimously.
Suburbs poison your brain.
Someday not so far off, communities like this will either have to be rebuilt from the ground up or completely abandoned. The alternative is going to be starvation and social collapse. I truly believe that.
The suburbs will not, cannot survive climate change in their current form.
what country do you live in? I want to move somewhere that isn't garbage
The Netherlands. We are still garbage, trust me. Our politicians have been lying to our face and for some reason the libs in our country decided to all collectively clap, go "YYAASSS KWEENN" and vote them right back in. However our suburbs are a lot better.
No
They absolutely are. We have pedestrian paths, actual fucking patches of nature and supermarkets close enough to walk/bike to. Are they good? Oh fuck no, but being better than America is easy.
Nope