I just read an article that here in Arizona, "exurbs" are increasing which are housing developments even further from a city than a suburb. Meaning more wildlife areas being used/destroyed and more gas required to get to town for necessities. I was hoping "walkable cities" would catch on here, but there's a lot of people who think it's just an evil plot of the ruling elite to away our freedoms.
Thanks for sharing! Definitely a tough balance to be struck between preserving habits and ecosystems as well as allowing for development. I think ensuring that wildlife areas are part of the decision making process going forward is what we need to make sure we are working towards. Thanks for watching as always!
It's about greed. Plain, and simple. The rich don't care enough about you to care if they're taking freedoms, or not. It's about the buck. And, collectively, we voted for them to have more, and better, rights than us.
Thank you for making this essential content. I wish we could go back in time and develop society in a way that is more cohesive with nature but sadly here we are. I get hope from people like you bring awareness to these ideas:)
Really appreciate your comment! I think it’s important to look forward with a solutions based mindset and learn from past mistakes that have been made. Thanks for watching!
Great video! It’s definitely interesting to reconsider approaches that, even when trying to do right by nature, may still be coming from an overly anthropocentric perspective.
good vid! reminds me of the half earth concept. and i agree! conservation is an issue that is connected to every other. its not enough to ask how much land is enough, but we must also ask how can we change our resource extraction processes, how our living spaces look (an end to suburban sprawl), how our transportation is organized (less cars means less fragmentation through roads) etc etc etc. i have hope though. the beauty of the vastness of scope is that we get to imagine an entirely new future
You have really good content, I don't know why your channel has not reached a wider audience. I hope it does soon.
Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it! Thanks so much for watching!
I just read an article that here in Arizona, "exurbs" are increasing which are housing developments even further from a city than a suburb. Meaning more wildlife areas being used/destroyed and more gas required to get to town for necessities. I was hoping "walkable cities" would catch on here, but there's a lot of people who think it's just an evil plot of the ruling elite to away our freedoms.
Thanks for sharing! Definitely a tough balance to be struck between preserving habits and ecosystems as well as allowing for development. I think ensuring that wildlife areas are part of the decision making process going forward is what we need to make sure we are working towards. Thanks for watching as always!
It's about greed. Plain, and simple. The rich don't care enough about you to care if they're taking freedoms, or not. It's about the buck.
And, collectively, we voted for them to have more, and better, rights than us.
If you live in Arizona, you should check out the Arcosanti project. It aint perfect but you will find it interesting.
Thank you for making this essential content. I wish we could go back in time and develop society in a way that is more cohesive with nature but sadly here we are. I get hope from people like you bring awareness to these ideas:)
Really appreciate your comment! I think it’s important to look forward with a solutions based mindset and learn from past mistakes that have been made. Thanks for watching!
Great video! It’s definitely interesting to reconsider approaches that, even when trying to do right by nature, may still be coming from an overly anthropocentric perspective.
Thanks so much for your comment and for watching the video!
good vid! reminds me of the half earth concept.
and i agree! conservation is an issue that is connected to every other. its not enough to ask how much land is enough, but we must also ask how can we change our resource extraction processes, how our living spaces look (an end to suburban sprawl), how our transportation is organized (less cars means less fragmentation through roads) etc etc etc.
i have hope though. the beauty of the vastness of scope is that we get to imagine an entirely new future
10:20. With this issue I take the Spock approach; environmental metrics are the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
I tried going to the link about how much habitat is enough, for some reason the link wasn't working.
Sorry about that! I have updated the link in the description. It should be working now! Thanks for watching!