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You should write a song about that!
Man imagine only have to drive 1 hour a day….
Years later...
The highways and cars
were sacrificed for agriculture.
I thought that we'd start over
but, I guess I was wrong.
Once there were parking lots,
now it's a peaceful oasis.
This was a Pizza Hut
now it's all covered with daisies.
I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens.
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
The under utilization of buildings is huge problem. So much waste it is insane. Some churches are the worst like Mormons who build tons of churches just to have them sit vacant the majority of time. We are just too selfish to want to change.
dont they also have other properties that are in the 10s if not hundreds of billions.
True, but you could say this about any type of infrastructure. Plus i hate counting crows.
The Counting Crows version is a cover.
The original was sung by Joni Mitchell.
True but I agree with the OP. I also hate counting crows.
I won't deny that they suck, but that's not the song's fault.
Why do they suck?
Taste is subjective.
Also wow. Found the entire Counting Crows fanbase.
Mostly because I still have ears. Without those, they'd be ok I guess.
That doesn't answer my question
I didn’t say it was.
Big Yellow Taxi is one of the greatest of all time, as other many other Joni Mitchell Songs.
At least they gave between the buried and me their name.
Like what other type of infrastructure?
A pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot.
Yeah, they keep flying around and getting behind each other.
eh, land use for parking lots is commonly overestimated based on our own observation bias
1% of habitable land is used for all constructions (housing and parking lots and streets) together. it's not a lot. it seems a lot when you're standing on a vast parking area, but no, in absolute terms, compared to Earth's size, it's not a lot. much bigger are the area uses for agriculture, actually. that makes the most land use of humanity, it's in fact the limiting factor for the number of people on the world.
No one is saying parking lot is a lot of area of the earth. It's a lot of area of a city.
Cities and areas human live in is very small part of the overall land we have available, because we need a lot more resources than just a house to live in. Even in tribal areas the buildings take barely any land compared to the area they use for agriculture, hunting and things.
The main problem with parking lot is the amount of space it takes within the area we live in, specially for any place people gather in. Making the places people want to gather even more isolated because of it.
"Hey guys, sure, you don't have any forests or grasslands around where you live anymore, but the entire gobi desert has no asphault, so the % of pavement is really low so stop over reacting"
Well, get on making the cars self driving so they can all drive to one big parking garage. Then less of paradise will have to be paved.
What if the car companies lobby the government to ban manual cars and pedestrians from the road so that speeds can be safely increased, thereby increasing noise and particulate pollution and isolating us in between high speed nightmare roads?
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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