Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ...
by makomk on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:54AM
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Hundreds or thousands of years ago, most people would be born, grow up, live their entire lives and die within a few miles of where their parents were born. We're not living in that kind of society today and I don't think it'd be possible to go back to it short of the total collapse of civilization and technology and death of almost all of the world's population.
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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ...
by alistairSH on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:02AM
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Sure, but that's not what was said above:
"The cities we live in are hundreds, if not thousands of years old. The idea of that a 15 minute city has any bearing on real life is sadly laughable."
The two sentences don't make sense together. Those old cities were "15 minute" cities by necessity - easy long distance travel wasn't a thing until the industrial revolution. We've since redesigned many of them for car use, and in some cases realized the mistake and redesigned them again (Amsterdam, for example).