[CydeWeys]

The average New Yorker has a mere one-third of the carbon emissions as the average American. This is really bad for the climate overall. Dense city living is very efficient; living in the suburbs and driving everywhere is not. NYC is the densest city we have.

[pc86]

I'm not sure there are enough NYers for this to noticeably impact the carbon emissions of the eastern seaboard, let alone the world as a whole.

[CydeWeys]

And yet you add up lots of small numbers and they end up turning into a big number that destroys the planet, so the small numbers do matter too. It's the total annual carbon emission that determines the fate of our planet, and this kind of pattern of people switching to higher-carbon lifestyles is bad, especially since the pattern isn't exclusively happening to NYC but broadly to lots of cities. Add up all the cities it's happening to and it absolutely does impact the carbon emissions of the planet.

[Acrobatic_Road]

Live in the city for the sake of nature you will never experience because you live in a city.

[CydeWeys]

We're not walled in here, you know. And it's not nature that matters per se but rather having a habitable planet. You're confusing issues here.

[Acrobatic_Road]

Okay feel free to stay where you are then.

[chordalkeyboard]

Does that include the emissions from having everything driven into the city via trucks?