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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Many countries are experiencing things like industrialization and rapid development. This leads to things like overpopulation and lots of pollution, we can do things to fix that though. We can make sure that we are using every bit of space that we have meaning putting more than one business in a building and making sure that you use multi-use buildings. We also need to make sure that the equipment that we are using to heat, cool, or power those building are as efficient as possible; meaning that we make sure that we have reusable power sources such as wind, solar, or hydroelectric energy.
I agree with your statement, finding alternative energy sources would be beneficial to the environment and more efficient. Using fossil fuels requires mining, transportation, as well as causing air pollution. They are many environmental and human health considerations with using fossil fuels. By using alternatives such as the ones you have listed, it would be beneficial to both humans and the environment.