transportation where?ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:00 amhow so?KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:57 am the thing is, if done with some forethought and attention, living rurally can be less impactful than living in many urban locales
the big obstacle, once again, is transportation, right?
if one wants to live as a hermit on some self-sustaining plot and never go anywhere, sure.
Otherwise, I think of the point about how the urban hipster riding their bike to their coffeeshops and dive bars has a smaller carbon footprint than the "environmentalists" driving their big SUVs from their acreage in the burbs to go fish and ski and recreate in the mountains.
“if one wants to live as a hermit on some self-sustaining plot and never go anywhere, sure.”
the overwhelming majority of people i know that live rurally are very much in this boat (that’s why they live where they do)
i didn’t say it was for everyone. i intentionally stipulated that it would have to be done with forethought and attention in order to be less impactful than living in an urban spot
one wouldn’t have to live absolutely sustainably off their land in order for it to be less impactful than living in most urban places