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so many that there will be less room for swimming pools, golf, circuits, tennis, and many other unnecessary things that pollute, double win

• datavirtue 4y ago
  You can still have all that stuff. We have stripped far more trees than nessesaary without realizing that they were keeping us alive. There are plenty of voids in between highway lanes, in the middle of parking lots etc. If you want an example of what it should look like check out Hilton Head island or Washington state. Shaded parking lots and you can't find Walmart through all the trees without a map.
  • 11235813213455 4y ago
    sure, and we could go a few steps further because trees tolerate but are not fond of asphalt, concrete, gum, oil of parking lots. We could reduce the dependance to cars, cars take up to 26% of the space in cities, and more in pollution (25-45% of pollution), most of if isn't even from exhaust, it's from tires and dust put back in the air, they participate a lot in the heat islands phenomenon. Let's turn to small and light vehicles, designed for cities
    • datavirtue 4y ago
      I agree. I was looking at parking lots and realized the surface areas of the vehicles multiply the size of the heat island effect. I estimated that a typical vehicle increases the surface area by 1.5-2 times the surface it covers.