Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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Lawns and Monoculture Farming Suck
Lawns and monoculture are super unsustainable and hurt both the land they sit on and the ecosystems they take space from. So much more food could be produced too, if we used lawn space better and used better crop rotations to maximize farm health and variety. Before the industrial revolution, over 50% of food was personally produced, but lawn culture hurts that opportunity.
I agree that Monoculture is very destructive because of what happened in countries in Central America and central Asia. In Central America during the early 20th century, the banana companies who got their bananas from here had a heavy influence on the government to the point of almost controlling them. They used that power to continue to grow bananas which hurt local farmers and the environment. While in Central Asia in the late 20th century, the soviets used the land there to grow huge amounts of cotton. They eventually rerouted water to these fertile lands which caused the drying up of the Aral sea.