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Yes! Thank you Austin Williams. Chalk me up as another human tired of misanthropy.
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Q: In your book you argue that instead of worrying about the unsustainable growth of cities we should embrace urbanisation. Why?
A: People are not the problem, they are the solution, but sadly we seem to have conceded that humans are the cause of the planet's imminent demise. Sustainability has become a cloak for this misanthropic attitude. It suggests that we are a drain on resources, a harmful influence.
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Raising yourself above the immediate relationship with nature is a noble—and reasonably universal—one.
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Yes.
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In one chapter, “Sanitised City”, you talked about the rise of intolerance and suspicion towards formerly innocent behaviour. What were you referring to exactly?
The generally accepted view is that public life has been privatised but our book argues that a bigger cause for concern is that our private life is being made public. The cri de coeur of reasonable citizens everywhere is: “if you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve nothing to hide”. This eminently logical sentiment has legitimised intervention into one’s private sphere for many years. Nowadays the obverse assumption is that if you’re hiding something, you’ve done something wrong. In other words, the anonymity of the city—which was always one of its lures—is viewed by society with suspicion.
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