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The average New Yorker has a mere one-third of the carbon emissions as the average American. This is really bad for the climate overall. Dense city living is
by CydeWeys 6y ago
The average New Yorker has a mere one-third of the carbon emissions as the average American. This is really bad for the climate overall. Dense city living is very efficient; living in the suburbs and driving everywhere is not. NYC is the densest city we have.
- pc86 6y agoI'm not sure there are enough NYers for this to noticeably impact the carbon emissions of the eastern seaboard, let alone the world as a whole.
- CydeWeys 6y agoAnd yet you add up lots of small numbers and they end up turning into a big number that destroys the planet, so the small numbers do matter too. It's the total annual carbon emission that determines the fate of our planet, and this kind of pattern of people switching to higher-carbon lifestyles is bad, especially since the pattern isn't exclusively happening to NYC but broadly to lots of cities. Add up all the cities it's happening to and it absolutely does impact the carbon emissions of the planet.
- Acrobatic_Road 6y agoLive in the city for the sake of nature you will never experience because you live in a city.
- CydeWeys 6y agoWe're not walled in here, you know. And it's not nature that matters per se but rather having a habitable planet. You're confusing issues here.
- Acrobatic_Road 6y agoOkay feel free to stay where you are then.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoDoes that include the emissions from having everything driven into the city via trucks?