Suburbs, justifiably, have a bad rap from an environmental point of view. But suppose you managed to live in a suburb without ever using a car, and without anyone in your household ever using a car. Suppose that you work, shop, and socialize without ever using any mode of transportation besides walking, bicycle, or public transportation. Suppose that you live close enough to the city that the environmental costs of bringing goods to the stores where you buy them are not much greater than for bringing them to stores in the city. Can we say that your environmental footprint is broadly speaking not much worse than if you lived in the city? Roughly how much of the story of the environmental harm of suburbs is directly attributable to personal driving?
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