• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “Demolish suburbs” LOL what the fuck. Y’all anti-car people are so delusional. Get a life and concern yourself with realistic pursuits instead.

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      10 months ago

      “Sure, the planet is unfit for human habitation now, but at least we got to have lawns in front of our houses and meat every day until the world ended”

      Stopping climate change requires drastic action, rethinking how we live every aspect of our lives, and the wastefulness of suburbs means they must go, just like the internal combustion engine and the animal agriculture industry. How will you justify to future generations that you left them with a ruined world, all because you and those like you were too selfish to give up your current style of living?

      Additionally, they are provably a blight on cities. They cost far more to maintain than they produce, since they lack any serious commercial activity, so no taxes, and the spread-out nature of them means that any infrastructure is far more expensive per person. You wouldn’t even need to actively demolish them, just cut off all maintenance, and watch them rot. Plus, they keep literally bankrupting cities, so often there is no choice, the money is no longer there to maintain them.

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        10 months ago

        Sure, go right ahead and get to work on that plan then. I’m sure everyone in the suburbs will agree to give up their homes and land and move to the dense urban Soviet-style shitholes that you envision as the perfect way to live.

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          10 months ago

          Tell me you’ve never been outside of your crappy state and have never seen a European city nor ever seen a modern European apartment.

          You do understand other countries have actual buildings that consist of more than some wood and styrofoam, right?