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Tysons Engineer said:
Rural areas are fine too, for the most part they are self sustaining in many ways. Suburbs are what this site really discuss in comparison to urban areas, which are clearly net energy hogs compared to a city apartment.

Absolutely agree. If you're talking about ACTUAL rural areas, and not "rural areas" (outer exurbs) where lots of people commute a zillion miles into a city to work then they are pretty independent, and provide benefits to people in urban areas. For example they may grow your food, harvest the natural resources we use for building/tech/products, or provide a vacation destination for city families. You do not often find superfluous people living in these places; people have easily defined jobs and roles that support their community. Few enough people live in these places that their inefficiency is only a small impact on the big picture.

The real inefficiency comes from the people who want to get the agglomeration benefits of cities (high-paying job, specialized field, etc) but we have enabled not to make the trade-off of living more efficiently in order to gain those benefits.

by MLD on Jul 9, 2012 9:15 am • link • report

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