Gotta disagree. The suburban sprawl model of development that we have been doing for about the past sixty years is not gonna make it, and I will give you the main reasons (and I don’t really think climate change is real or not an issue, there are bigger ones to consider):
paves over our countryside to make way for globohomo box stores and woke corporations, instead of traditional small town main street type development which favors smaller local mom and pop true American stores and businesses
the road infrastructure it requires is ridiculously expensive and is paid for with money borrowed against the debt we borrow from china, soros, etc. once they quit loaning us money or we default guess what will happen to all those roads? They only last about 30 years or so before they need a full reboot. To continue to build in this way puts our country in a very weak position if supply lines were to be interrupted for example, and leads us down a fiscal path to bankruptcy
forcing people to drive everywhere, instead of having the car be an instrument of freedom to be used more occasionally, puts citizens under the thumb of globalist car companies who keep pumping out more and more expensive cars. So we are all paying for two expensive cars every month just because, well when you live in the globohomo sprawl you need two cars
loss of town identity - everything is just six lane roads and sprawl
kids stuck at home till they can drive instead of being able to walk to a job at the hardware etc they just get stuck out in the sprawl dressing up in their sisters clothes and streaming on tictok
It’s not a healthy way to build a civilization. We can have city, and country, but the middle part the sprawl is what is bankrupting us.
15m neighborhoods where you have a school and a store and a church all steps away are a good idea
And yet, you dont take into account how many more schools and big box retailers will need to be built and how many more bodies will need to be stuffed into each 15 minute zone to make paying for that added infrastructure, without debt, feasible.
Go look at the megacities in fiction like Judge Dredd. Thats what you are advocating for. High crime, distopian, state above all else.
Kids in suburbia can usually access jobs - if their parents will let them. Unfortunately, the media has convinced everyone that not having your children in line of sight is bad.
No dumba ass I am not advocating for megacities those are terrible and are the result of sprawl. I'm talkikng about the return to small-town type development, walkable small neighborhoods like our forefathers built and the type of towns which made america great in the first place.
Not concrete jungles - real neighborhoods which are suitable places to call American towns.
"Walkable small town neighborhoods" are either urban hell holes or sprawl. Our forefathers didnt have that, they had a main street that everyone would horse and later drive into where they could walk around, but they lived away from main street. First in farms, then in suburban homes, then in urban high density housing. Housing was always located away from shopping and industry.
You are quite obviously thinking with rose tinted glasses.
You sound like someone who knows absolutely dick about urban planning or the patterns which underly and drive our built environment. Our forefathers knew what they were doing - they may not have called it 'walkable' or whatever it was just the way they built, and they learned it from their forefathers, who had been perfecting it since the dawn of time. Starting in WW2 we threw all that out the window and embraced the globohomo pattern of sprawl. We fucked ourselves big time.
Sprawl is not sustainable from a financial standpoint - IDGAF about the 'environment' I'm talking about creating a country worth caring about, and which is financially solvent. Right now we are paving our own road to hell (bankruptcy) with the way everything is built. Say what you want but the numbers don't crunch and we are in for a rude awakening.
Gotta disagree. The suburban sprawl model of development that we have been doing for about the past sixty years is not gonna make it, and I will give you the main reasons (and I don’t really think climate change is real or not an issue, there are bigger ones to consider):
paves over our countryside to make way for globohomo box stores and woke corporations, instead of traditional small town main street type development which favors smaller local mom and pop true American stores and businesses
the road infrastructure it requires is ridiculously expensive and is paid for with money borrowed against the debt we borrow from china, soros, etc. once they quit loaning us money or we default guess what will happen to all those roads? They only last about 30 years or so before they need a full reboot. To continue to build in this way puts our country in a very weak position if supply lines were to be interrupted for example, and leads us down a fiscal path to bankruptcy
forcing people to drive everywhere, instead of having the car be an instrument of freedom to be used more occasionally, puts citizens under the thumb of globalist car companies who keep pumping out more and more expensive cars. So we are all paying for two expensive cars every month just because, well when you live in the globohomo sprawl you need two cars
loss of town identity - everything is just six lane roads and sprawl
kids stuck at home till they can drive instead of being able to walk to a job at the hardware etc they just get stuck out in the sprawl dressing up in their sisters clothes and streaming on tictok
It’s not a healthy way to build a civilization. We can have city, and country, but the middle part the sprawl is what is bankrupting us.
15m neighborhoods where you have a school and a store and a church all steps away are a good idea
And yet, you dont take into account how many more schools and big box retailers will need to be built and how many more bodies will need to be stuffed into each 15 minute zone to make paying for that added infrastructure, without debt, feasible.
Go look at the megacities in fiction like Judge Dredd. Thats what you are advocating for. High crime, distopian, state above all else.
Kids in suburbia can usually access jobs - if their parents will let them. Unfortunately, the media has convinced everyone that not having your children in line of sight is bad.
No dumba ass I am not advocating for megacities those are terrible and are the result of sprawl. I'm talkikng about the return to small-town type development, walkable small neighborhoods like our forefathers built and the type of towns which made america great in the first place.
Not concrete jungles - real neighborhoods which are suitable places to call American towns.
"Walkable small town neighborhoods" are either urban hell holes or sprawl. Our forefathers didnt have that, they had a main street that everyone would horse and later drive into where they could walk around, but they lived away from main street. First in farms, then in suburban homes, then in urban high density housing. Housing was always located away from shopping and industry.
You are quite obviously thinking with rose tinted glasses.
You sound like someone who knows absolutely dick about urban planning or the patterns which underly and drive our built environment. Our forefathers knew what they were doing - they may not have called it 'walkable' or whatever it was just the way they built, and they learned it from their forefathers, who had been perfecting it since the dawn of time. Starting in WW2 we threw all that out the window and embraced the globohomo pattern of sprawl. We fucked ourselves big time.
Sprawl is not sustainable from a financial standpoint - IDGAF about the 'environment' I'm talking about creating a country worth caring about, and which is financially solvent. Right now we are paving our own road to hell (bankruptcy) with the way everything is built. Say what you want but the numbers don't crunch and we are in for a rude awakening.