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if environmentalists were serious about saving environment, they would have supported Nuclear Energy & Dense housing. Instead we have: hectares and hectares
by slt2021 2y ago
if environmentalists were serious about saving environment, they would have supported Nuclear Energy & Dense housing.
Instead we have:
hectares and hectares of land dedicated to wind&solar with all wildlife habitat destroyed, and gas plants still continuing to burn fuel.
hectares of land dedicated to suburban sprawl
hectares of land dedicated to new highways that connect sprawl to downtown cities
to be truly efficient, cities must reduce the footprint and leave more areas to wildlife and nature preservation sites:
dense low footprint housing
dense low footprint commercial RE
safe, clean, cheap mass public transit that connects the two
safe, clean nuclear energy that powers it all
- forinti 2y agoI live in a state that went from three years of drought to a record 100-year flood. Most people are not going to worry about animals going extinct or about biodiversity in the abstract, but I think people would take the environment seriously if they realized dying of hunger might be a possibility.
- mistrial9 2y agothank you for directly proving how difficult this topic is! lots of "environmentalists" support Nuclear Power, and lots of others are deeply against it due to toxicity, ignoring efficiency and playing into capital allocation. Others want to find the right answers, and that is difficult. Secondly, dense housing was exactly what plenty of people tried to build, while aggressive real estate developers found an easier profit by subdividing farm land and making suburbs. Since covid-19, not only has dense cities fallen drastically, but the ordinary small business that enables dense cities, ceased to function. This "I told you to do this" comment is exactly the pressure and noise that pushes ordinary people out, since they cannot respond and are negatively reinforced socially with semi-hostile criticism.
- ljsprague 2y agoThey would also support limiting immigration.
- anonfordays 2y agoIn an ironic twist, with solar and batteries dropping in cost and rising in efficiency every year, EV adoption continuing to grow, work from home trending up, etc. living in the suburbs/rural areas may end up being more eco-friendly than living in the cities.