I Read the P.O.S. News Journal Web Site So You Don’t Have To
Item 1: A typical “Dog Humps Man’s Leg” Story
Carney (hearts) Tom Carper. Ruth Ann Minner…? Never heard of her.
Item 2: From the Office of Obvious Shit
High density, well-planned residential communities are good. Low density, half-assed McMansions thrown down in random farm fields are bad.
The second link doesn’t work, Jason FYI.
At least the best Delaware political blogs are now on a blog list right on the Dialogue Delaware web page. 🙂
Sorry, but “High density, well-planned residential communities are good. Low density, half-assed McMansions thrown down in random farm fields are bad,” is just bovine feces. You picked one aspect — carbon emissions — to claim that this is some great good, but high density has a whole other set of problems.
Number one is crime. When you pack a bunch of people together, you get more violent crime. Up here in God’s country, where half the people in the county have guns, some of them a lot of guns, we’ve had two murders so far this century. Populationwise, if we had the same murder rate as foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia, we ought to have about 13 a year.
While you picked on the carbon footprint part, even tyhough we have to drive more miles than someone in a dense urban area, our air is cleaner, for the simple reason that we’re further apart and the air can circulate. You see smog alerts for cities, not for small towns.
What a simplistic world-view you have.
“You see smog alerts for cities, not for small towns.”
I guess that explains why all three counties in Delaware flunk air quality standards.
Don’t know if it offsets completely, but recent research indicates that the required construction materials for high-rise housing substantially increase the carbon footprint. This is the concrete v wood issue. The study I looked over briefly was comparing high-rise to townhouses so I don’t know about the McMansion comparison.