It’s like we paved paradise to put up a parking lot.
Controversial opinion: The world’s problem is too many humans. We should impose a global 1 child policy for 2-3 generations to give us time to figure out a sustainable way to expand as a race.
Thoughts?
How do you practically impose this policy?
It’s not that. We can already feed everyone in the world, it’s just not profitable to do so.
And the above comic doesn’t show overpopulation. It shows a terrible urbanization and surburbanization scheme. There’s a lot of things we could mandate to make it better.
- Underground telephone and power lines. Also prevents outages during storms. Gets rid of a lot of the upper noise.
- Better lights. Prevents light pollution by having most light go downward.
- Structure cities and town centers around walking. This means fewer roads and parking lots and more restaurants and stores.
- Increase public transport. #3 means everyone will drive TO the city then walk. This will prevent the driving to.
- More green spaces. Within cities and towns there should be a lot more vegetation. Corner green spaces, rooftop gardens, parks, etc.
- Denser housing in cities. This means people can go up instead of out. Prevents urban sprawl and keeps city neighborhoods walkable.
There’s probably a lot more but a big problem with American design is that it was almost all co-opted by the automobile industry 100-150 years ago. We used to have public transport within and to cities. But their lobbying created mostly sprawling suburban hellscapes like you see above. And all the rich people live in beautifully manicured neighborhoods so they care nothing for how it looks.
Off-world colonies are the only viable option in the long run, imo.
