[JambalayaJim]

This is the case in poor countries where rural populations have a minuscule carbon footprint, and city dwellers have a greater one.

It is absolutely not the case here in developed countries. A city dweller who bikes to work is not equivalent to a suburbanite driving around their SUV just to pick up bananas from the grocery store.

[defrost]

Suburbs are, in my opinion at least, urban areas and part of cities; at least when looking at statements concerning human migration from rural non urban areas to urban areas.

FWiW I have mostly always lived and worked in rural | remote areas and where I currently live most people walk to the local shop and are almost all eating the bulk of their food from sources in the surrounding area.

It's small town that was once a first inland european settlement point in Australia - lot of large scale farmers with big town lots that have old fruiting trees, food plots, chickens, etc.

Lots of meticulously restored, maintained, and used cars from the 1920s - 1960s, and a surprising amount of bleeding edge tech.

[JambalayaJim]

Regardless of your personal definition, suburbs and urban areas are a very meaningful distinction. With regards to both human migration due to covid, and waste/consumption patterns.

[tonyedgecombe]

>A city dweller who bikes to work is not equivalent to a suburbanite driving around their SUV just to pick up bananas from the grocery store.

A city dweller tends to be richer which affords more consumption.