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Even more energy intensive than oversized individual vehicles is spread out living, and it has to be by a multiple since spread out living has a knock on effect

• kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago
  > Apartments for everyone, and no detached single family homes You've described my hell. > Well, I guess except for reducing the population itself. Perhaps the population will decrease from the crime and depression of being crammed into a city where you can't see the stars at night, nor hear the wildlife by day, and there's no such thing as silence anymore.
  • lotsofpulp 3y ago
    The purpose of my comment is to point out that we all like consuming energy and carbon emissions, and that too much energy or carbon emissions is always consumed by someone else. So is a 5k sq ft lot too much to live on? A 10k sq ft lot? 20k? In order of impact, reducing energy consumption/carbon emissions on individual level is 0) suicide 1) not having children 2) having a smaller earth surface area footprint 3) traveling less 4) buying less material things, including smaller vehicles in which to travel At the end of the day, we can’t escape basic physics. Energy = mass * acceleration * distance. The less mass and the less distance you move the mass, the less energy you consume and hence less carbon emissions you produce.