Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y...
by dragonwriter on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:56AM
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> Basically we are moving towards cities and we need to move faster
Not necessarily. It might be possible and even desirable to slow some aspects of it down, but not wind the clock in reverse.
> But I'd at least like to see some people in the cities say 'we honestly don't care about rural people and they need to adapt'.
It's not a matter of not caring about rural people (or urban people who have been surviving off industries that are on the way out, or that once survived off industries that are gone that they wish would come back); caring about the people demands dealing with them honestly and doing the things that can mitigate harms to them from the transition, not trying to pretend that the world is going to rewind to some past state for them.
Not necessarily. It might be possible and even desirable to slow some aspects of it down, but not wind the clock in reverse.
> But I'd at least like to see some people in the cities say 'we honestly don't care about rural people and they need to adapt'.
It's not a matter of not caring about rural people (or urban people who have been surviving off industries that are on the way out, or that once survived off industries that are gone that they wish would come back); caring about the people demands dealing with them honestly and doing the things that can mitigate harms to them from the transition, not trying to pretend that the world is going to rewind to some past state for them.