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> We can't all have a car because we'll boil the earth. If we > develop EV's and don't boil the earth, they won't all fit > downtown. > > We can't all live in
by screye 8y ago
> We can't all have a car because we'll boil the earth. If we > develop EV's and don't boil the earth, they won't all fit
> downtown.
>
> We can't all live in the country, that's not sustainable
> either.
You hit the nail in the head.
The only way for 7+ billions humans to live sustain-ably on planet earth, is to accept high density living and shared spaces.
High density living in the form of apartments with common gardening, grilling areas, shared yards and complete reliance on public transportation.
I would love to see card become an entirely rental / on demand thing.
It would take a lot to make such a massive cultural switch, but it is the best thing we can do for sustainable living.
- llukas 8y ago> High density living in the form of apartments with common gardening, grilling areas, shared yards and complete reliance on public transportation. Did you just describe most of EU and some of east coast US cities? ;)
- ant6n 8y agoYou don't need extremely high density, and you can still grill on your own balcony (or little terasse). Theres an important density threshold which allows communities to be walkable and servable by rapid transit. Many areas of Montreal are comfortably above that threshold by using triplexes, even just duplexes.
- isostatic 8y ago20 houses per hectare is low density, with a decent garden and local roads. At that level you can fit 20,000 houses, or 50-70k people, within a short 2km walk of a station, and a few local shops around the place too, and on average you’re about 800m from the edge of town. Have 1 town every 10km (so 6km of country between them) and that’s a 6:1 country:town ratio and a density higher than that of even the Netherlands.