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yes, but do we want to turn all that land into high density housing? (ok, i exaggerate but) there are tangible benefits from leaving spaces open and untouched.
by em-bee 3y ago
yes, but do we want to turn all that land into high density housing? (ok, i exaggerate but) there are tangible benefits from leaving spaces open and untouched.
- savingsPossible 3y agoNo, and we absolutely can keep 95% of the open space for the next 200 years with much higher growth
- AlexandrB 3y agoCitation needed. All that space would need to be turned into farmland.
- savingsPossible 3y agoopen space includes farmland? I mean, it is plausible op meant nature, but they asked about not high density housing I for one see a lot of value in yet another big congested city, and very little value in a forest (only instrumental value, to keep humans, dogs and a handful of other preferred species alive) -- I would prefer the big city not to be as congested, and I would keep some forest as a tourism destination for people who like that, and also enough forest to not cause harm to the "humans and dogs" populatin, but that is that -- instrumental forest, not as an end goal