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5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months agoUrban people, suburban people and rural people don’t need to hate on each other’s built environment, neighbourhoods and homes. Industrialised societies (that includes all three) produce and emit filth in enormous quantities in and to all places.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No one in a city or suburbs is thinking about rural areas besides, “Oh that looks relaxing.” But people in rural areas talk the most shit like yelling, “Enjoy sniffing each other’s farts!” to a passing jet. Then crying about wanting to leave Toenail, AL.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Global population has only become majority urbanised recently. Many urban people grew up in sub- or exurban areas and thus know how life in suburbia, the village or on a farm was or is.
I agree that there is a disconnection between the urban and the rural and I assume it is spreading fast, because the rural is depopulating and labour is specialising fast. The mode of industrial agriculture is location-dependent, but corn or wheat production uses more and more technology, some steps are commonly outsourced to contractors. I assume that these trends have major implications for the rural population, which often doesn’t supply the near urban population directly anymore.