Re:Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)
by macspoofing on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:02AM
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>Stores that did not produce unnecessary waste were standard practice.
It's such a strange thing to say when this wasn't really done by conscious choice. There were shortages of everything, and though it wasn't 'abject poverty', the society as a whole was poor. You couldn't afford to be wasteful.
>Another thing they got right was urban planning.
The gray concrete jungle and complete disregard for maintaining existing infrastructure is a great example of urban planning?
Anyway, you're giving them too much credit. Like you said further down, people didn't have cars and gas was expensive - that by itself will make cities that are walkable and traversable by public transit. Western Europe also had walkable cities and great public transit and didn't need the Soviet-system to create it.
It's such a strange thing to say when this wasn't really done by conscious choice. There were shortages of everything, and though it wasn't 'abject poverty', the society as a whole was poor. You couldn't afford to be wasteful.
>Another thing they got right was urban planning.
The gray concrete jungle and complete disregard for maintaining existing infrastructure is a great example of urban planning?
Anyway, you're giving them too much credit. Like you said further down, people didn't have cars and gas was expensive - that by itself will make cities that are walkable and traversable by public transit. Western Europe also had walkable cities and great public transit and didn't need the Soviet-system to create it.