tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post6242837508106439295..comments2024-02-20T07:06:56.933+00:00Comments on THE SKINNER: Urbanites Can Survive on Smog.Neal Asherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-48895943117878564232010-11-17T16:17:14.223+00:002010-11-17T16:17:14.223+00:00New Scientist's hue would appear to be light g...New Scientist's hue would appear to be light green, as it were - there are plenty of dark greens who do not like cities at all. <br /><br />Here's one comment I found on green website Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Network..<br /><br />"If you could make a time-lapse bird's eye animation of the growth of city, it'd resemble the growth of a malignant cancer, a spore, which spreads and consumes and poisons it's [sic] substrate."<br /><br />I quite enjoy living in the urban hive, myself, so that made me smile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-43998336540643627682010-11-15T23:57:23.119+00:002010-11-15T23:57:23.119+00:00Sure doesn't meat come in plastic trays nowada...Sure doesn't meat come in plastic trays nowadays? and veges come ready frozen out of a plastic bag?<br />That's the worrying thing the profound disconnect between real life and the life many people lead.<br />I'm not talking sci-fi here but many people just don't have a clue.Huanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039728997048734241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-16326345887962990852010-11-15T14:17:25.466+00:002010-11-15T14:17:25.466+00:00I don't think I would mind living in a city, a...I don't think I would mind living in a city, at least for a little while, for the novelty. But that's not what gets me about this. It's the implication that cities can somehow do without what the countryside produces. Where does this woman think just about every product in supermarket food aisles comes from?Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-51201858393518368462010-11-15T13:41:58.599+00:002010-11-15T13:41:58.599+00:00I'd stop reading that magazine if I were you, ...I'd stop reading that magazine if I were you, its feeding you bullshit! Let's all move to the city, let the countryside fix itself-yea right! You couldn't pay me to live in a city!LarryShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17723096857163954170noreply@blogger.com