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Those “coasties” you seem to despise are the ones subsidizing your economically and environmentally unsustainable rural lifestyle.
by ffdjjjffjj 7y ago
Those “coasties” you seem to despise are the ones subsidizing your economically and environmentally unsustainable rural lifestyle.
- jstewartmobile 7y agoEverything is connected. You can't do without them any better than they can do without you.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoUntil urbanized areas have hydroponic highrises, they starve to death without rural areas. They also will have a difficult time accessing enough clean drinking water or finding a way to dispose of waste. Power generation will also be problematic. If the two areas went their own ways, which one would have the most difficulty surviving? That urban areas "subsidize" the areas holding many of the key resources for sustaining life should make you wonder how it is that the urban areas captured so much of the nation's economic balance sheet in the first place. But as a sibling comment stated, the two areas are intertwined and dependent on each other. Ultimately the whole ends up being larger than the parts.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into regional flamewar. That's exactly the wrong direction to head. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html