So is the largest contributor to the problem just lack of land? Seems like most of the other problems from the article can be solved with money, but a lack of land makes it hard to build anything
I once calculated that if we reduce the land use for livestock by 50% and then use 10% of the newly freed land to build housing (the other 40% can become nature), we can build a city something like 1.5x times the size of Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands.
It’s not a lack of land. It’s how the land is being used. Almost half is for livestock (or more accurate: to dump the shit of that livestock, as the majority of the animals is kept indoors).
So less food, more people? Have you heard the term “famine” before?
I think the three biggest contributors are:
- immigration
- nitrogen crisis not allowing to have as many houses built as we need
- seniors living at home longer instead of going to a nursing home
The biggest contributor is the massive amounts of land being used for producing meat, which is then exported to other countries
More land can be “created” just by building taller.
Nope, our spoil isn’t dense enough for it. We cannot build higher then what you see in Rotterdam, because the building would just fall over
Hold the phone… Are you saying there is no bedrock in the Netherlands?
Not in the part that’s under sea level. Can’t have basements there either
What does being under sea level have to do with bedrock? Bedrock exists under the sea too.
Can’t have a basement though
Give this a watch, we most certainly do not lack land.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B8kyrIQCFXQ
Tldr: France could house the entire world in sustainable housing.
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Literally importing cheap labor quicker than they can build
