Urban vs. Rural; What's to be done?

[StCapps]

Not all Jews are good storytellers, but a lot of the best storytellers are Jews, they punch way above their weight given their population. Pukerog is just jealous and lashing out to his own determent, looking gift horses in the mouth.

[brewster]

Not all Jews are good storytellers, but a lot of the best storytellers are Jews, they punch way above their weight given their population.

Wouldn't it be interesting to hear Carlin do an episode about "peoples that punch above their weight"? The Anglo-Saxon certainly did for 2 hundred years at conquering people. He mentioned that the Serbs at punching above their weight in the war department. you have everything from the Phoenicians at sea to the blacks at basketball to look at. The fact that there was once a time that Jews dominated basketball shows how fucked up the whole idea is.

Maybe the Jews aren't that funny at all, it's just that everyone else is REALLY not funny. I can still make my wife laugh after 25 years, and that's really all that matters.

[C-Mag]

Since population density of the US is 93 people per sq mile, if you got rid of the cities and spread everyone on the habitable land, it would not look like that.

I don't want to spread people out. I want cities to take responsibility for their environmental damage and destruction.

[C-Mag]

Unless you nuked the cities, anyway..

You guys are like the "he man woman haters club" of 11 year olds who don't realize what they'd be giving up. Everything from the tools you use to the TV you watch to the books you read to the phones and computers you read this on comes from cities, and would be unlikely to come from some little town nearby. You sound like Confederates in 1861 yapping about how 'we're going to whoop those Yankee pussies and who cares if we have no foundries, factories or shipyards'.

Why do you think I want to get rid of cities. I don't mind cities, but I want responsible cities. I want environmentally sound cities. I want cities that don't promote humans shitting in the streets, becoming hives of disease and waste.

[StCapps]

I want cities to take responsibility for their environmental damage and destruction.

Good luck with that, you're going to need it.

[Speaker to Animals]

It'a actually garbage.

How would you know? You only watched The Expanse, you have nothing to compare it to. You assume it's garbage, but that assumption is based on ignorance.

How the hell do you think I came to the decision to unplug from the propaganda? Damn, you are fucking slow. You should consume less television and read more

[brewster]

I don't mind cities, but I want responsible cities. I want environmentally sound cities. .

first you need to prove that modern Western cities are actually environmentally worse per capita than rural living.

[Montegriffo]

he drank like he was Irish.

HATE SPEECH

I'm offended on behalf of my long-dead Irish grandmother.

[Speaker to Animals]

I think you already had that bullshit debunked several times. Not sure why you'd want this propaganda narrative debunked yet again.

Every attempt to make yourselves seem greener that I have seen limits your consumption costs to your immediate actions. For instance, urban intellectuals write that urbanites drive less. But they do not account for the pollution and energy costs to support that. You personally may be able to drive a short distance to a grocery store (or even walk to it), but the products you consume still have to travel a much greater distance into your city.

Neither do they account for the immense ecological disruptions your cities inflict upon a very wide geographical area. Californian cities have literally tried to seize water resources from surrounding states. Inside California, rural residents have all of their water stolen by the cities. They end up in strict rationing for the sake of unsustainable cities.

[Speaker to Animals]

Then there is the little detail of the ecologically-friendly potential of rural communities compared to the large cities.

The potential to create green towns exists. We can potentially become mostly self-sufficient, growing and raising our food locally, producing most of our own consumer goods, recycling our waste, and producing our own power in the most sustainable ways.

Cities cannot ever possibly match that potential. You have to resort to extreme science fiction to postulate a green city.