It's a global climate solution -- if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs

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2. Of course this is all absolutely true. But in order for this to work for large areas, it would

would require people to live in multi-unit housing.

I live in a hundred-year-old apartment neighborhood. It is wonderful. But the opinions routinely expressed to me on DU when I say I love apartment living are really quite vicious.

I have been told by DUers (in conversations where they know I live in an apartment) that they would rather live out of a shopping cart than live in an apartment. (That's very dumb AND very rude.) I have been told that apartment living inevitably and quickly becomes ghetto living. I have been told you get into an apartment and THEN the board sneaks up on you and bam! raises the monthly fees on you (and themselves, BTW) beyond any affordability. People insist they need acres of land and a big house or life is not worth living.

All of this is, of course, total bullshit. But people have this nonsense in their heads. In conversations where someone simply speaks positively about life in multi-unit housing, DUers routinely respond as if guns are being held to their heads and they are being forced to move.

Conspiracy theories aside, people's attitudes toward this kind of housing are surprisingly irrational, and though your article is spot on, the irrationality clearly shows that the change is not something that will be easy to bring about anytime soon.