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		tekknik on Feb 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees density can be hugely detrimental to climate change if the city isn’t built in a green way, which no US city currently is and will likely not be in your lifetime. under the guise that your desire to live in a highly dense climate wasteland, by 2035 we should require either everybody move away from city centers, or require cities be zero emission. your decisions are affecting me, isn’t that the norm now?

earthling8118 on Feb 2, 2024 [–]

If we can't make the more efficient cities sustainable, why in the world would it be possible to do the same thing with everyone spread out?

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