Urban 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.
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.
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.
Not sure if you’ve ever been near a dairy farm before, or like I used to live near a sugar beat factory, plus pesticides, or lung destroying dust season during harvests. Have you seen what agricultural runoff can do to a river?
We’re all dealing with pollution fam it isn’t exclusive to cities. On a broader note urban and rural areas both have various issues so for a lot of people it is just down to which ones you’re willing to put up with. I’ve lived mostly in small farming towns but I’m in a city now and it suits me much better. I’d rather work to improve what I’ve got here than go back.
Wages are usually much lower in rural areas (if there are even jobs available), so this still applies. And, as others have said, there’s plenty of pollution caused by farms and factories in rural areas. I grew up in a rural area, and still remember the seasonal smell of cow manure, and the river that was so polluted you could only eat 1 fish per month from it. I also got a check from a class action lawsuit because a waste disposal facility caught on fire and spewed toxic smoke all over a 50 mile radius. And a local factory got caught just dumping toxic waste in the ground.
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