So some blurb on the internet claims that the fastest growing areas of the country are DFW and Houston.

Both those locations are sprawl exemplar.

We lament that people don’t take climate change seriously, and (some) leaders talk about how we have to limit our carbon emissions… and yet we promote sprawl.

This is why I have sort of given up on seriously believing we will do mitigation to the extent needed.

Our mitigation efforts are more than tokens but still fall far short of what is needed.

My answer to sprawl is direct and impossible: counties and municipalities should refuse to offer building permits for a single family dwelling until said builder has built at least one multi-family dwelling AND paid money to build a rail service to connect said dwellings into a regional network.

But that will never happen.