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Just kind of makes sense no? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Plastering agricultural land with parking lots and suburban sprawl is a crime against humanity. This wasteful land use needs to end.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I've done a ton of biking in my area over the last 15 years, and it's been depressing seeing how much former farmland and unused wild area is getting gobbled up by the fucking McMansions and "high 700s" McTownhouses. The townhouses are especially sad - like, you're out in the middle of fucking nowhere (no town in sight) and yet you're jammed in with neighbors on both walls?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

47 percent of the country is unoccupied.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

Unoccupied land is otherwise called "nature" and is quite useful for a lot of things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Efficiency doesn't care how big your country is, sprawl would be as inefficient in Cyprus as in Russia, you spread your services and infrastructure over an unnecessarily large area, to huge economic and environmental cost, and forcing people to rely on a car to move around