For hundreds of years, rural poverty has driven people to urban areas: cities offer paying work and abundant opportunities to get ahead, and these financial incentives have transformed the human populace from largely rural to largely urban in the developed world. Now a new set of financial pressures are forcing a migration of urban residents out of cities which are increasingly unaffordable and dysfunctional.
Source – oftwominds.com
– ‘…The sacrifices required to live in high-cost urban areas are no longer worth it: traffic congestion, long commutes, high-stress jobs, homelessness and decaying infrastructure are outweighing the benefits of hipster urbanism. Although it’s verboten to mention this in the we’re so fabulous local media, many of these high-cost urban regions are hopelessly dysfunctional. Taxpayers have ponied up billions of dollars in new taxes, fees and bond measures, and yet none of the problems that make daily life miserable ever get better”
America’s Forced Financial Flight: Fleeing Unaffordable and Dysfunctional Cities – By Charles Hugh Smith
The forced flight from unaffordable and dysfunctional urban regions is as yet a trickle, but watch what happens when a recession causes widespread layoffs in high-wage sectors.
For hundreds of years, rural poverty has driven people to urban areas: cities offer paying work and abundant opportunities to get ahead, and…
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From the article:
“Crime rates associated with homeless people have skyrocketed in many West Coast cities.
Businesses and residents pay the brunt of the damages caused by theft, shoplifting and assaults.
Seattle police officers will not even talk with the media about how they feel when people they arrest are put back on the streets — some many times. Morale is low.
Portland has 120 commissioned officers’ positions open. I wonder why.
Police are told to stand down on most of these situations in Seattle and Portland and not to enforce the law. They are beyond frustrated. In the old days, a billy club on the head and one to the gut and being told to move along worked well. It should be today, too. Ah, how many lumps ya want, bub? Done.
In three days in downtown Portland, we saw not one Portland police officer. None. Zero. Not on a bike, on foot or even a car. On the other hand, I did not see Antifa directing traffic for them, either.
Elected officials, businesses, citizens and visitors must fight back against these liberal policies.
I’m sure neither the Seattle nor Portland mayor gives a rip. But, hey, call them anyway.
Tell them to shape up or you won’t return with your money to spend there.
Sayre of Lewiston served as regional director to former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig”
So this person is pretty much blaming the homeless for being homeless while also stating that ‘liberal’ policies are to blame for why the situation is occurring. I don’t buy that. City officials are trying a more ‘humane’ approach to handling the homeless situation and not just telling the police to bust heads and guts which is what this particular individual would be so filled with glee to see; fucking asswipe!
How can he start off by stating the obvious in that millions don’t even earn enough to live inside a home and then finish by stating that because of that, they should get bust up side the head and suckered punch to pieces just so they can get out of his sight while he is on vacation in Portland is just beyond my comprehension. ‘Humans’ are some real sick shits! I do not believe that the majority of homeless people WANT to be homeless. I sure as hell would not and so to basically say that it would be better for them to get bust in the head and gut and sent off to prison for being homeless is just too absurd for words.
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As best I can tell, Shelby, the original post was two articles stuck together and the second one, although related, is just plain silly. The author of the second post clearly understands nothing about the economics of incarceration or the economics of treating the the homeless mentally ill. If he’s serious about incarcerating all Seattle’s and Portland’s mentally ill homeless people – and making sure they get proper treatment – he had better be prepared for his property taxes to go through the roof. I tried watching the KOMO video (portrayed in the image) and it was so disgusting I had to stop.
The main reason I reblogged this post was because of the first article. The powers continue to maintain that our cities will continue to increase in size as rural areas continue to empty out. I don’t believe that it’s going to happen because it’s simply not economically nor environmentally feasible to continue the massive investment involved in transporting food into cities and transporting waste out. Just look at the mess China’s megacities are in with their massive air pollution and totally destruction of their fresh drinking water.
In my view, there aren’t nearly enough articles written about the total unsustainability of our large cities.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Savory
“Savory advocates using bunched and moving livestock to what he claims mimics nature, as a means to heal the environment, stating “only livestock can reverse desertification. There is no other known tool available to humans with which to address desertification that is contributing not only to climate change but also to much of the poverty, emigration, violence, etc. in the seriously affected regions of the world.”
What do you think, are Savory’s ideas a good way to ‘healing the environment’?
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https://www.savory.global/ebooks/?gclid=CjwKCAjwwZrmBRA7EiwA4iMzBI1_HnMSeky307xSox2Iph-jWS7lN7KSr0-om1gknXZVkloM0Jh3JBoCGHgQAvD_BwE
Are you interested in learning Holistic Management? Do you want to know more about regenerative agriculture practices?
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Aunty, I personally have concerns about the vast amount of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) produced by livestock. I much prefer the approach used by Australian permaculture guru Geoff Lawton for greening deserts – he has already used the process successfully in Jordan and elsewhere.
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Thanks very much for the link, Stuart. Of course, permaculture is a great idea. As far as livestock is concerned, maybe livestock could be used more and more sparingly.
I assume, a lot can be done to get rid of deserts! I am sure mankind can survive very well without access to mass produced meat. Yes, and we should go instead for mass produced permaculture products!! But I think to try to get rid of all these deserts is really good for the world’s climate. It should have been aimed for a long time ago, instead we create more and more deserts just so that people can indulge in eating more and more meat!
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