• @aidan
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    21 year ago

    At least in the US which has a lot of non-dense areas, there is so much land that there is still a ton of land for nature, and a lot of the biggest consumers of nature are non-residential developments like farmland

    • @DarthBueller
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      31 year ago

      I wish I had a way to share a certain GIS-generated image of projected development growth in my US state over the next 50 years without doxxing myself. Needless to say, it’s ABSOLUTELY INSANE - with planning relegated to Counties (some of which don’t even have zoning), and those counties being ruby red with their local governments captured by builders and developers that don’t care whether the world looks like a strip mall or a forest, sprawl is the name of the game and it is eating into both farmland and forest on a scale that is hard for a person to fully comprehend.