If you believe that manmade pollution is causing global warming, then it only make logical sense that the single greatest source of man’s carbon footpring comes from the heavilly populated urban areas. That’s where pollution occurs at such high levels that the environment never gets a chance to recover.
After a hot day, temps drop in the suburbs and rural areas, but stay high in the cities. Concrete, blacktop, glass, metal, it all retains the heat. Smog is so thick it almost never disperses, and sewage output is huge. No wonder ocean water around cities is always brown and yellow.
Crude oil trickles from the ocean floor but nature can handle it and within hours, it’s gone. A tanker bursts in Alaska and it takes years to clean up. It’s just a volume thing.
The air is cleaner where there are less people together. So it stands to reason that if you care about the planet, you won’t live in an urban city area. Otherwise, you are part of the problem. Sorry. It’s true.
Mr. Jello, if you were right, cities would be the ultimate clean green spaces. But they aren’t! Mass transit diesel fumes, airports belching jet exhaust, huge A/C units atop buildings delivering hot air, etc. When I was in NYC for a few years, I took the subway. The amount of filth that would accumulate on your SKIN from just a few moments outside or in the hot subway air was horrible.
And did you ever see NYC or LA or Miami from a cruise ship? I have. OMG, they actually have brown DOMES of filth around them! It was disgusting.
Compare that to the environment near Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, or the TN Smokey Mountains, or the rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The cities are causing pollution. If they didn’t exist, the suburb traffic wouldn’t be heading in to them. Everyone could work locally.