Solarpunk Farming

As for the topic of resources needed to support cities… Obviously there is no denying that and I also don’t think I have done that anywhere in this thread. The entire argument rests on this need and that you can’t do without.

How is this not denying it.

Basically I think only those directly involved in food production (or nature conservation) should permanently live in rural areas.

None of the things I listed are food or nature conservation.

But also, that world, in which only people directly involved with food live in rural places, fucking sucks for those people. Rural people deserve communities too, and they have them, because rural communities are actually full communities with depth and complexity (and real hospitals!). We don't only exist solely to serve the urban core with food and/or resources. Farmers are people, and all people deserve community.

I'm sorry if I sound annoyed, but I kinda am. You keep downplaying rural communities, like saying that the hospital without which I couldn't have typed this isn't a real hospital, or that most of the people who make my life worthwhile shouldn't live here. Like when I pointed out that to be able to farm necessitates the support of tradespeople and grocery stores and so on, you said they could just live in the city and commute here, and that maybe it's more inconvenient for the villagers, but it's more efficient -- those are my friends and family you're talking about. I want to see them not at our jobs, too. It's actually pretty patronizing to tell people that their communities should be dismantled to make them more efficient in how they serve the urban core, just like it's patronizing to assume we can't have real hospitals. We have real lawyers, too, and bars and bowling alleys and there's even a Chinese takeout place in my tiny ass town (though I admit that it sucks).