"**People often picture eco-friendly living as rural**. Living on your farm in the countryside is the green thing to do. Living in the packed energy-guzzling city is what’s wrecking the planet. In reality, **it’s the opposite**. "There are clear environmental benefits to cities: we can build efficient, connected networks for travel. **When we look at the travel emissions across towns and cities we find a clear pattern: people in denser cities emit less**. ([Location 1682](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=1682))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[transport-emissions]], [[climate-change]], [[emissions]], [[urbanisation]], [[public-policy]], [[agrarian-economies]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]