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Yes. The longer term environmental benefits are staggering and there are immediate quality of life and health improvements. There are also second order effect
by gz5 6y ago
Yes. The longer term environmental benefits are staggering and there are immediate quality of life and health improvements. There are also second order effects in jobs planting and maintaining trees and park areas, increased biodiversity, and better awareness of the need to take care of the earth which takes care of us. Regrowth is great but won't (directly) help those cities as much.
- caturopath 6y agoYour point seems a little out-of-place to me...TFA was about fighting climate change by having plants absorbing carbon, and cities are...not the efficient place for that, right? Probably more interestingly, I am skeptical about the premise. Obviously, cities need parks and trees. Largely they have parks and trees. I see a lot of newer areas designed with mini-lawns and I always shake my head - in an urban environment, the name of the game is density and accessibility. Don't put a bush between the sidewalk and your shop: the shops are supposed to be on the sidewalk. Half of the time, these shops seem to be hiding their main entrance in the back, next to a parking lot, because it's actually a suburb with some apartments over a dentist office, not a real attempt at an urban environment.