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Being a nature loving person who currently lives in the sprawl(but the wrong side of Tokyo bay), I have to say there are a lot of people who do want to live lik
by totetsu 5y ago
Being a nature loving person who currently lives in the sprawl(but the wrong side of Tokyo bay), I have to say there are a lot of people who do want to live like that, and thats great for them, I don't understand it but, leave all the mountains empty for me and my fellow ramblers. The only problem is that as long as democracy is people weighted and not land weighted, all the big empty space will be controlled by people who have no connection to or value for it. so they will just let it become the site of extraction, or to build high ways, or wind turbines, etc.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoI for one would be “bottle of gin a night” depressed living in a built up area, I realise I’m in a minority but city life absolutely isn’t for everyone.
- ginja 5y agoAnything other than a people weighted democracy would be, well, highly undemocratic. Resource extraction, highways and wind turbines have to exist somewhere - so aren’t the more sparsely populated areas the obvious choice?
- totetsu 5y agothere's no easy answers. but local regional self determination is not undemocratic is it? even if things have to exist somewhere, the people who are connected to those wheres should have some say over their future. besides its not like This country is highly democratic to begin with..