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Re:Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on Goes East Im... by maxerickson on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:23PM (#36235508)
A higher percentage of the global population lives in urban areas than pretty much any time before. Population growth isn't causing sprawl.
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Re:Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on Goes East Im... by midoridensha on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:35PM (#36236474)
It is in the US, where the "urban" label is applied to suburban and exurban places.
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Re:Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on Goes East Im... by maxerickson on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:42AM (#36239327)
It's not really population pressure causing that though, at least not exclusively. It's a relatively small number of people that think they want a particular sort of lifestyle. Net migration patterns more or less have people moving out of low population counties and into high population counties.
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