Posted on 07/27/2022 5:05:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The prevailing vision of environmentalism today caters to a global oligarchy.
"A filing cabinet of human lives Where people swarm like bees in tunneled hives, Each to his own cell in the covered comb, Identical and cramped—we call it home." — Gerald Raftery, "Apartment House"
The conventional wisdom among America’s liberals, often seconded and rarely challenged by conservatives, is that population growth in the United States should be channeled as much as possible into the footprint of existing cities. Surrounding cities should be “greenbelts,” suburban growth should be rejected as unsustainable “sprawl,” and human settlement in areas defined as the “urban-wildland interface” should be discouraged and, where possible, reversed.
The movement to increase the population density of cities and reduce rural populations is already enshrined in California law and is rolling quietly across the rest of the nation. It is marketed as enlightened, environmentally sustainable urban planning, but the moral pretext obscures a self-serving density agenda that is shared by several powerful special interests.
Among all the misanthropic trends in public policy that threaten the freedom and prosperity of ordinary Americans, the density agenda is probably the least discussed.
Stated simply, population densification will fundamentally undermine Americans’ ability to preserve their freedom and independence. You don’t have to reference Agenda 2030—about which it is now almost impossible to find any negative commentary online—to understand how easily a population can be controlled when it is relocated and concentrated into a handful of megacities.
In the 1990s, shortly before the end of apartheid, I remember speaking with someone who had just returned from a tour of South Africa. He commented on his impressions of the densely populated black townships that were adjacent to every major city.
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They want to turn us into serfs.
People who allow themselves to be herded into hives like that are far more easily controlled. China’s ongoing COVID oppression is a current example.
Just what this country needs. More Cabrini Greens....
As I said years ago, the envirosocialist watermelons want us all packed like sardines in little concrete boxes in the sky with no means of getting around (ie our cars) or to defend ourselves (our guns) utterly dependent on centralized government services for everything.....COMPLETELY under their power and control.
makes lockdowns of the camps..er, i mean the cities so much easier
Cabrini-Green is the goal.
Densification isn't really the GOAL. It's a SYMPTOM of underlying economic influences that may have been hijacked by utopian tyrants but is really driven by other factors.
Simply put, densification is pretty much an inevitable consequence of modern democratic governance -- and is driven by two factors that are incompatible with each other in political economics:
1. The insatiable desire for people to get more "free sh!t" from the government.
2. The opposition by these same people to paying the taxes necessary to fund the "free sh!t."
That is what has driven almost every major political and economic policy in the U.S. for the last 100 years (if not longer). The combination of these two factors makes it impossible for satisfy the popular demands for a subsidized existence without forcing people to live in areas where the population density provides the economies of scale necessary to provide the "free sh!t" as cheaply as possible.
This is where modern urban life has its roots. Almost any public service or human comfort becomes cheapest at higher densities -- whether you measure it by lane-miles of roads, linear feet of water or sewer lines, electrical power generation and transmission, or anything else. The most ludicrous, dystopian extension of this is a government school -- which is so ingrained in our minds as a God-given right that we even pack kids into school buses at the crack of dawn and herd them into these schools from miles away.
If you want to escape the trap of densification described here, just be prepared to give up a lot of things we've come to take for granted over the last 100+ years.
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