"Because small communities are generally more likely to be self-sufficient"
Why is self-sufficiency a good thing? Isn't a large community a combination of smaller communities that have become interdependent?
"and more caring"
Prove it. Plenty of small communities are little tyrannies. Witch trials, anyone? Feudalism was based on small agricultural communities. Peasants were even bound to a particular piece of land.
"as well as because of lack of resources and ruining ecosystems."
Not sure "small communities" mean less use of resources or less ruining of ecosystems. More people certainly means potentially more drain of resources, but how people live is probably more important than how many of them are living. Urban density living tends to have less environmental impact per capita than low density suburban living.
I agree that it is technologically possible to make lovely green cities.
Hope is more productive than despair.
Animals aren't subject to ethics because they do not have the capacity to reason and lack empathy outside of the closest members of their pack/hive/herd/whatever... Animals can't be ethical, because they are incapable of that kind of understanding.
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Date: 2009-12-02 04:55 pm (UTC)Why is self-sufficiency a good thing? Isn't a large community a combination of smaller communities that have become interdependent?
"and more caring"
Prove it. Plenty of small communities are little tyrannies. Witch trials, anyone? Feudalism was based on small agricultural communities. Peasants were even bound to a particular piece of land.
"as well as because of lack of resources and ruining ecosystems."
Not sure "small communities" mean less use of resources or less ruining of ecosystems. More people certainly means potentially more drain of resources, but how people live is probably more important than how many of them are living. Urban density living tends to have less environmental impact per capita than low density suburban living.
I agree that it is technologically possible to make lovely green cities.
Hope is more productive than despair.
Animals aren't subject to ethics because they do not have the capacity to reason and lack empathy outside of the closest members of their pack/hive/herd/whatever... Animals can't be ethical, because they are incapable of that kind of understanding.