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Old 05-05-17, 05:58 AM
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jon c. 
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Originally Posted by cooker
Again, this is not about you. Thought experiment: If all those people currently crammed into your nearby city spread out at your density, do you see that lessening their impact on the environment?

Consider the opposite. What happens if most of the rural population moves to the city. This tends to happen when rural economies collapse and the results are not pretty. I think in a moderately well functioning society, human population distribution works itself out pretty well.
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