they can be--but the default for rural life in USA is much more energy intensive, per person, than urban life (and that's to say nothing of the geographical footprint) https://twitter.com/themechaprimate/status/1037183011601690625 …
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Anyway--I wonder how my personal ecological footprint sizes up against a rural environmentalist's one. And on that note I really need to get my fridge checked out.
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Major scaling problem is inherent unsustainability of primitive and rural lifestyles. 100 man tribe throwing their trash in the river has no impact. 100000 man city with modern garbage doing the same? Massive impact.
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Sure (tho part of that boils down to the KIND of trash a modern city produces vs a rural village--not the quantity), but this is why modern cities generally don't just huck their trash into the river
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Nah even without modern trash, the environmental impact will be similar albeit not as bad if they don't have the sense to start burning some waste or composting. It doesn't help of course.
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But at some point the culture has to evolve to the point that people dislike "just throwing trash on the ground, in the river" because it is ugly
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