These two images are typical rural sprawl compared with Central Manhattan, on the exact same scale. Now I'm not an expert on these matters, but something tells me pollution, traffic and logistical problems would be much, much worse is everyone had their own plot of land.

  • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, so just throwing out there almost all data shows that in general, people who live in cities have a greater carbon footprint than people who live in the country and have to have a car to drive everywhere. It's wild to think about.

    Know why? People who are rich live in cities.

    The negative outcomes of living in the country with literally no public transit are yes, bad and inefficient, but to make the biggest dent in the shortest amount of time we need to be targeting the excess wealth of the top 10% in the imperial core so they can't have huge homes, huge cars, private jets, yachts, helicopters, so they can't drive/fly as much as they want, eat as much beef as they want, consume as much product as they want, etc.