Because it has to be repeated again and again: We need to drastically reduce the number of cars to solve our problems.
@AndiPopp than drastically invest in public transportation outside of cities…. The people there have no chance without cars…
@Grey08 Yes, this is a part of it. But increasing living density is also part of the equation. Many "non-city" areas are surprisingly unsustainable.
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Are you assuming you can roboticize the farm work and or turn the cities into vertical farm blocks? There are problems with many of those ideas. Where I work does a good bit of research on automating farming, but it's still a long way off. The vertical farms have some serious energy problems due to the use of lighting in them unless you use mirror systems to redirect sunlight. (continued:)
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Also, there is an inherent bias in economic data in that a surprising amount of manufacturing is done in small to mid size towns by divisions of corporations, but often the production and profits are counted in the cities where the corporate headquarters are.