Reply #144: High density housing has it's own downside.

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and the planet will be just fine regardless of what we do. We may make ourselves extinct but the planet will survive with or without us. Even if we miraculously managed to murder every single living thing on the planet - this planet spawned life once, it will do it again.

No I'm not justifying irresponsible living. I work very hard to live as frugally and produce the least pollution I can to live in the culture I must survive in. We do this to help preserve some resources for the next generation of humans, not to "save the planet".