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The thing is — the suburban-sprawl lifestyle cannot, and will not continue. If we don't put a halt to it in order to provide a soft landing, climate change will
by NoGravitas 5y ago
The thing is — the suburban-sprawl lifestyle cannot, and will not continue. If we don't put a halt to it in order to provide a soft landing, climate change will put a more-or-less abrupt end to it (not everywhere at once, and not always through the same means). The regression of optimistic urbanists to begrudged suburbanites just means more resistance to doing anything to solve our collective action problem around climate change, and a better chance of getting the worst-case scenarios.
- Consultant32452 5y agoI don't want to argue with you or change your mind, but I also don't want to share a country with you.
- jayess 5y agoMy goodness, what a bleak, authoritarian point of view with so little imagination.
- PoignardAzur 5y ago"Imagination" should not be a substitute for hard numbers, and hard numbers keep telling us we're not doing enough to fix climate change, over and over again. You want bleak? Look at projections of what the planet will look like in 100 years if current trends continue.
- closeparen 5y agoThe prevalence of the suburban model rests on strict land use control and extensive infrastructure spending. It is intensely authoritarian already.