James Howard Kunstler takes environmentalists to task for considering human nature something distinct from the rest of nature.
This thinking, Kunstler argues, leads folks to flee from "bad urbanism" to rural places, pushing the frontier of sprawl. What he urges is to make "American towns and neighborhoods magnificent places to live and work, and move downtown yourself, even if you haveto give up one of your mighty SUVs... The fiasco of suburbia, so acute and so damaging to our culture in general, has otherwise intelligent and educated people adopting foolish positions on our national land-use crisis. The most common is the idea that nature is the antidote for problems of bad urbanism."
FULL STORY: Man in Nature: The Fiasco of Suburbia

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Ken Jennings Launches Transit Web Series
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Austin Launches $2M Homelessness Prevention Fund
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Alabama School Forestry Initiative Brings Trees to Schoolyards
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