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The GP did not say anything about greenhouse emissions: > (with the infrastructure needed to accommodate them) Laying pavement quite literally destroys the en
by tomjakubowski 8y ago
The GP did not say anything about greenhouse emissions:
> (with the infrastructure needed to accommodate them)
Laying pavement quite literally destroys the environment, and a _ton_ of it is needed to support personal automobile lifestyles (particularly in suburban sprawl); far more than the amount required to support freight, walkers, cyclists, and mass transit. Modern US car-centric streets are very inefficient in space.
- dane-pgp 8y agoI don't know how much of the environment you think needs to be protected from being "destroyed" by the laying of pavement, but a helpful comparison might be to look at the figures for England: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18623096 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18623096 "the proportion of England's landscape which is built on is… 2.27%."