As we continue to abuse our environment, the less fortunate people of America suffer at a much higher degree than most might think. This is due impart because the waste of the upper class can be shipped to these less desirable areas, completely disregarding the wellbeing of their fellow citizens. Kunstler asserts that me must shift to a more localized community where people are responsible for their own waste, and thus will take their consumption more seriously. With this, urban areas will see an improvement in quality of life and as a whole, waste and pollution will be treated with more care since people will be responsible for what they produce.
As our environment continues to get worse, we turn a blind eye to the amount of hopelessness we are getting ourselves into. Kunstler believes this to be the “greatest misallocation of resources to date” and that our quality of civic life that we take for granted today will only continue to get worse unless we can reverse the negative actions we are placing on our environment. In the past, people took conservative approaches to their cities, where the towns never got too large, the people always provided for themselves, and people all depended on one another for the production of goods. The culture of civic design and the organization of cities went down the drain after the Industrial Revolution, and all of our principles of sustainability and space conservation went down the drain with it as well. We want to get to the point where we can dwell in a hopeful present, and not worry about a future full of despair.
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