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Yes one can, because it is not.

• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  Moving mass further distances requires more energy. Personal cars enable, and require, living further away from each other. Hence personal cars lead to consuming more energy. The further away people live from each other causes knock on effects for energy usage for all of the mass moved for living. Where is the flaw?
  • slowmovintarget 5y ago
    Power generation in power plants that burn fossil fuels is the number one polluter. That's the flaw.
    • shawnb576 5y ago
      And to replace that with clean energy is that much harder with energy intensive dispersed communities. Cities are far more energy and resource efficient. It’s more than cars and energy, its water, sewer, transit, land use, ecological impact, all the things that don’t scale well. Yes decentralized power can mitigate a lot of that but planning communities to be low energy is a more scalable solution.
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    • lotsofpulp 5y ago
      The amount of electricity needed goes up due to amount of space being used. The problem is the amount of space being used (e.g. for air conditioning), not how the electricity is being generated (since we do not have technology that makes electricity without greatly affecting the environment and is also cheap enough). And at the end of the day, nothing will mitigate the 2nd law of thermodynamics in our current toolchest. So either we reduce total consumption, or we (spanning multiple generations of humans) pay the price.