Posted on 03/15/2013 5:13:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Obama administration envisions a “low-carbon, low-petroleum” future where Americans tele-work, tele-shop, walk, bike and use carpools or mass transit if they must leave the neighborhood at all.
A study released Friday says the U.S. has the potential to reduce petroleum use and pollution in the transportation sector by more than 80 percent by 2050. In other words, gasoline-powered cars may go the way of the dinosaur, and many Americans may end up living in planned, mixed-use, “walkable” neighborhoods, built along mass transit lines. …
Higher densities (more people living in the same area in smaller homes), a mix of uses (shopping and other services) and walkable neighborhoods contribute to lower vehicle travel and energy use, the report says.
And to encourage “effective land use,” the report calls for expanded federal efforts to influence development through funding decisions. …
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The need for fully credentialed teachers will decline, with much of their former work becoming taken up by test monitors and email correspondents for students whose learning efforts are overseen mostly by parents using the best available recorded lectures and self teaching courses.
There will still be a demand for old style teachers in the remaining custodial, day care schools for delinquents and the unruly dregs of single parents who still commute to work. Otherwise, for most kids, going to school will be a special occasion, for lab work, organized sports, in person verification tests, and other activities that require personal attendance.
I recently noticed similar buildings in Hawaii. I wonder how common they are now in N. America. It seems to me that they would be more “practical” in hot, sunny climes than in colder climates.
Lets see the elites do a “demonstration project” as its called in government, for say one generation, and if it works for them perhaps the rest of us will adapt that lifestyle, okay?
another option and more western with many more english speakers:
http://www.livinginthephilippines.com
The communists succeeded in planting one of their mind viruses. The organizations against "urban sprawl" are communist front groups. Urban sprawl is a leftist derogatory term for low-density housing that requires automobile ownership. Leftism is driven by envy, mostly size envy. The two biggest possessions of middle-class America is the house and the car, so these objects receive the majority of leftist hate.
As population density increases, so must laws curtailing freedom. Living closer together free actions, such as playing music loudly, impacts more people negatively. To get along in high density people must be heavily constricted in what they can do without government permission. While humans are social creatures, those of us alive today are all descendants of the warriors that survived a bloody battlefield. When humans are caged in too high a density they get aggressive and violent.
Leftist envy and the resulting hatred for fellow mankind develops from growing up in a high density environment. Rather than find a cure for their hate they want to impose the very same conditions on everyone so everyone hates mankind as much as them.
yes- that is where they got them
so dont go there, its horrible
More likely you will be subjected to hate speech laws if you complain about loud music. One thing about my part of the country is I can have absolute silence if it is around wintertime and the river is high enough to flow silently over the rapids. I have had visitors from the city freak out at complete silence because they have never experienced it before.
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