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You are barking at wrong person. I live in Ireland and drive 15 years old car. Also I doubt that large cities are powered by sunshine and rainbow.
by qwerta 13y ago
You are barking at wrong person. I live in Ireland and drive 15 years old car. Also I doubt that large cities are powered by sunshine and rainbow.
- dominotw 13y agoI am 'barking' at the person who chooses to live in the burbs. I dont care where you live or what car you drive. Has nothing to do with you.
- qwerta 13y agoI still do not get how is large house at suburb related to environment.
- dagw 13y agoLiving in a large house in the suburbs has a far greater environmental impact than living in an apartment in a city by basically any metric you care to measure.
- rsl7 13y agoexcept that cities are incredible, giant islands of heat.
- dominotw 13y agoSorry, I thought this was common knowledge. Doesnt large house take more energy to heat? Don't people in the burbs drive more? Just google for 'suburbs environmental impact' you'll get thousands of hits/studies http://www.nbwctp.org/resources/the_environmental_impact_of_suburbanization.pdf http://www.nbwctp.org/resources/the_environmental_impact_of_... " if you want to be good to the environment, stay away from it. Move to high-rise apartments surrounded by plenty of concrete. Americans who settle in leafy, low-density suburbs will leave a significantly deeper carbon footprint, it turns out, than Americans who live cheek by jowl in urban towers."
- qwerta 13y agoI still do not think it is true. Money saved on housing and energies would be spend different way (new cars, holidays..). Prague is like that, most people live at concrete apartments. But they also drive to summer house every weekend and go to holiday four times a year.