Furthermore, I suspect there’s a lot of availability bias in play. In rural communities you can do a lot of environmentally unfriendly things and not see immediate consequences because there’s a lot more availability of the externalities per person. Nature can heal itself when density is low. Or you can leave that spot alone and have plenty of space for yourself still. In cities you more quickly see a lot of the consequences of policy changes large populations, especially when it comes to visible side effects. You also see poverty and may not see benefits of community help as much because it’s just so dang expensive to live in a city, much less both live and run organizations that do help others outside of government, which I’ve definitely seen happen when they can afford the real estate for e.g. a homeless shelter. People do genuinely want to help sometimes but they’re often not the loud ones making waves and running for office on hateful platforms.