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I grew up around a lot of these types of people. I went to high school in a college town that was famous for an early eco-development with bike paths, solar power, communal gardens, and natural drainage. It's called Village Homes.

It's an idyllic, beautiful place to live, and I had friends who grew up there. Hell, the streets are Tolkien-themed, with names like Rivendell, Bree, Elendil and Evenstar. The President of France even paid a visit.

But at its core, Village Homes is just a suburban subdivision with a green veneer. It's a great way to cosplay as a Hobbit, but it's actively worse for the planet than living in a steel tower on top of a subway station.

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And that's the kind of generational split that we're seeing. For a lot of greying NorCal environmentalists, it's the appearance of green living that matters more than anything else. (After all, what kind of *true* environmentalist lives in the urban jungle?)

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cnn.comThere’s an urban farm in Boston growing 6,000 pounds of produce a year. It happens to be located on the roof of Fenway Park | CNNOperated by Green City Growers, Fenway Farms is a roughly 5,000-square-foot rooftop garden area tucked up behind the third baseline at legendary Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox.

You can be very urban and very green. www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/s...

news.berkeley.eduNew interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods - Berkeley NewsData on current carbon emissions will help cities meet goals set at Paris climate summit, and show people how they contribute to global warming.

If you've spent your whole life going hiking, driving a Prius and having a beautiful garden in the 'burbs, it's horrifying to think that the guy who takes the train and lives in a steel tower is doing a better job of saving the planet than you.

But if you grew up thinking that environmentalism is first and foremost an aesthetic... the NIMBYism makes perfect sense. /thread

Naveen “boo” Gattu

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Aesthetics are certainly part of it, but the boomer era environmental movement gave us great things as well: organic produce, reduce-reuse-recycle, veganism, and many others. Also it’s easier to convince a “NorCal graybeard” to support bike lanes and housing than a die hard MAGA boomer.

Andromeda Yelton

I went on vacation recently, stayed on a farm in Vermont; it was beautiful, full of plants and hills and all that nice stuff, and I had to drive 20+ minutes to do ANYthing. It FELT a lot more nature-y than my 20K-people-per-square-mile city, but boy do I use less carbon here!

jad, unusually spooky 📸👻

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