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Cities are greener, believe it or not.

• karottenreibe 4y ago
  Source?
  • roflyear 4y ago
    Lots of discussion around this if you look around, this is the first I found that wasn't a news publication: https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels... Logically, it makes sense: while you need to get a lot of things into the city, you can do that at scale in ways that are efficient (like trains, boats, etc..). Also, if you live in a city, you're probably taking up much less of a footprint. Individual houses are really inefficient. Nevermind driving everywhere! :)
• Teknoman117 4y ago
  But they're not necessarily better - disease spreads much easier (as we are still having demonstrated to us), the noise is bad for your health, the air is bad for your health, the population is completely unsustainable when technology fails, at least in the US they tend to be smelly, dirty, etc. Until the masking and restaurant restrictions were lifted, there were next to no COVID cases in town and no one around us caught it. Meanwhile, my entire friend group (20+ people) in SF all caught it at some point. I'm the only one of the group that hasn't had it.