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What is the problem with urban gardening? On a rooftop, greenery would help with the heat, and I find it difficult to believe that greenery in a space which ot
by CatWChainsaw 4y ago
What is the problem with urban gardening? On a rooftop, greenery would help with the heat, and I find it difficult to believe that greenery in a space which otherwise has none would be an "ecological catastrophe".
- jeffbee 4y agoThere isn't anything wrong with urban gardening itself. The problem comes when anti-development groups impose policies to prevent any building from casting a shadow on anything. Greenery and open space are both good and important, and gardening is a fine hobby. But urban gardens don't feed anyone and if there is a choice between housing people in an existing city, or protecting an existing garden from shadows, we should choose the housing every time. Same thing goes for rooftop solar power: it's fine, but protecting it is not important.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoThat makes sense, thank you for clarifying.
- matkoniecz 4y ago> The problem comes when anti-development groups impose policies to prevent any building from casting a shadow on anything OK. But how it makes > rooftop solar and urban gardening (or "farming" if you must). Both are ecological catastrophe claim true?
- jeffbee 4y agoJust going from my local experience. The build-nothing approach to housing in Berkeley, championed by zucchini-hugging (google it) hippie morons, combined with the solar access ordinance that prevents development even along major transit corridors. This has caused an explosion of car-dependent exurban sprawl in former wilderness, wetlands, and farms.
- matkoniecz 4y ago> Just going from my local experience. OK, that makes more sense. > zucchini-hugging (google it) Nothing relevant gets found