>>1340139Many advantages that a city has to offer are disadvantages for me. I hate nightclubs, the high number of shops which constantly bombards with advertising, crowds, the separation of house and environment through several floors, the culture to spend money on useless things like daily restaurant visits, the fact that that every time you leave your apartment you are fully in the public and therefore you have to dress, all the migrant groups who hang around at night with their JBL boxes, all the Starbucks drinkers who feel exclusive while actually drinking shit and the sound of starting and landing planes.
Nobody on the street knows you. Nobody cares for you. If you were to die tomorrow, your neighbor would not even notice and people are much more picky in their choice of friends than the people in the country.
As long as one is not a trap, one hardly encounters problems. The people are more conservative, but not from the Stone Age.
I lived the first 23 years of my life in a city. I'm happy that after completing my forestry studies I found a place in a forestry and am now far away from this factory-human-farm that is creating taxes all day long.
>Worried about carbon footprint and shit? Even if we all move to cities tomorrow, the emission of climate-damaging substances would be reduced globally, but within a short time we would be on the same level by the population and economic growth.
China is building 2 coal-fired plants a week, while people are thinking about solar energy here. Germany, a country in which the idea of environmental protection among the population is widespread (private individuals do not even own air conditioners) and the kilowatt hour costs 30 cents, uses lignite for energy production to a great extent.
If we do not tackle the root of the problem and limit continued economic and population growth, personal renunciation will not help anyone.
