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You think it’s better to move out of cities, build highways and own cars? The earth likes it better when we don’t sprawl.
by melling 7y ago
You think it’s better to move out of cities, build highways and own cars?
The earth likes it better when we don’t sprawl.
- lonelappde 7y agoAs George Carlin said, The Earth is fine. The Earth ain't goin nowhere. We're all gonna die.
- Waterluvian 7y agoAnytime anyone talks about saving the earth, substitute it for the idea of saving the earth's configuration that is most comfortable for us humans.
- branweb 7y agoIt's perhaps a little ambiguous, but I understood the comment as arguing the exact opposite. I interpreted "overdevelopment" to basically mean the kind of sprawl explainted here: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-your-city-has-no-money https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason... ...where cities expand horizontally for short-term tax revenue gains/federal grants while accruing long-term infrastructure costs that their tax bases can't pay.
- melling 7y ago“ In an overpopulated world, we don't need more growth but de-growth, at the city,...” Perhaps it is a little ambiguous. However, the story is about New York City. There’s not much room to grow outwards. More mass transit in and around the city would reduce the need to own a car.