Fifty years ago America wanted to avoid becoming China and India, and we all knew the effects of being overcrowded on humans and lab rats.
What Americans didn’t realize was what the Democrats had done with JFK’s 1965 Immigration Act, today the left and whackos (libertarians?) tell us how the wonders of science can squeeze us all into Texas, and still keep us fed and watered, and surviving well enough to produce for business and government, while living in our boxes.
Most of those “proponents” don’t live in tiny apartments, though.
Not for me. I’ll be leaving My Little Acreage feet first!
They are either cynical liars or stone cold nuts.
μολὼν λαβέ, b*tch.
But I would say obesity is just as much a problem in the city. It's a function of the massive amounts of food available for us to eat and the culture of eating out several times a week - be it Applebees, Outback or Chipotles. In the city, you tend to eat out even more.
When I was last in Manhattan, I bought a couple hot dogs from a street vendor on my way to dinner! Hey, I was hungry and I still had seven blocks to go.
It could just as easily be said that generous food subsidy for the poor via EBT, SNAP and WIC have led to this epidemic of obesity. Maybe cutting the subsidy would work better than herding us all into concrete shoeboxes stacked to the sky? Probably, but that doesn’t increase control over the masses, it decreases it. So, it won’t happen.
NYC=human sewer.