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How about we don't cover our fields with car parks?
Too radical for Americans
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot?
public transport makes sense above a certain population density. many rural areas just don't have that.
By and large we don't. 53% percent of the surface area of the US is farmland. 28% of it is protected federal lands of some stripe or another — national forests and national parks, BLM land, etc. Everything else, all the remaining cities and suburbs and coal burning power plants, freeways, stroads with no bike lanes, Walmarts, and strip malls are all packed into the remainder. Most of that is along the coasts. The US is absolutely full of wide, huge, horizon-to-horizon, enormous expanses with nothing in them.
It's just that our populated areas, largely along the costs, are utter hellholes.
The raw numbers are very misleading. First, although only (!) 53% of U.S. has been ecologically devastated by farming, the 28% of "protected" federal land is often leased for cattle rangeland, clear-cut by logging companies, or what environmentalists derisively call, "rocks and ice."
The small remainder has been carved up by roads. It would be one thing if all of the pavement were one, contiguous blob in the middle of the New Mexico desert, but it is laced across the landscape from coast to coast. The effect on wildlife has been profound, from direct impact to roadkill numbers, to fragmention of ecosystems, to pollution from tailpipe emissions and road surface runoff.
It's not about the space that cars physically occupy (though that is a major issue in cities), but rather the almost-apocalyptic effect they have had on the natural world. We would be better off if we didn't build all of the parking lots on farmland (or anywhere).
This is ridiculously untrue and confuses too much of what matters for food
I just drove through New Mexico hundreds upon hundreds of miles of nothingness