How Urbanization Affects Global Warming?

Like I don't know what to say, do you have anything to ask?

As much as I try I can not see your position in this question.

Urbanisation is said to have affected the measurements that fuel the global warming scam. A weather station that was in a none urban environment and resides in a urban environment now will measure the urban heat effect and it looks like warming when compared to old data.

What exactly is your concern? Is it the heat effect of our cities? Or global "warming"?

Make a research on "Sustainable Development" and add the problem you are concerned with to make sure you do not get an education on kids behaviour or production increase from farm land.

Come back here with questions to make sure you are properly guided and not mislead by all the information out there on global "warming".

Urbanization actually provides many opportunities for more efficient use of fossil fuels...mass transit, high rise buildings, underground development, short commute, rail service, population density, nuclear power....most of fossil fuel use is in cars and trucks and industrial equipment, coal fired power plants, airplanes, ships at sea...

Not sure I agree with the "enjoy" in your 1st sentence.

The migration away from small family owned farms is not new as it started during the great depression then accelerated during USA post-depression years and continues to occur.

As the world population increases this movement will elevate exponentially.

Current world population numbers and geography make it physically impossible for every single family to own enough land to be self sufficient farmers.

Industrialized countries require large quantities of people to live in condensed sectors in order to provide the necessary labor and skilled personnel needed in the manufacturing plants.

Short of a catastrophic world disaster or all-out nuclear war wherein 60-70% of the world population is eliminated, there will not be a return to life as it was in the pre-depression era.

And by the way; The more automated the manufacturing becomes, the fewer jobs will be available further exacerbating the situation.

The migration started well before the Depression. It actually contributed to the severity of the Depression. Men (and their families) had begun moving to the cities to work in factories since the hourly income was higher. Once the Depression hit many factories had to close, putting men out of work.

Most of the families that lived on farms did reasonably well. (The Dust Bowl that hit parts of the Midwest was a huge story, but family farms in the rest of the Midwest, East, and South fared ok.)

I agree. Thanks for the correction. I think the industrial revolution actually had the largest impact on the migration. It does look to me like here in the USA around the time of the depression and immediately afterward it really accelerated. My Grandparents all said that there was plenty of everything available but most could not afford to buy much of anything.

sorry dude but some of us cam off the farm and we enjoy calling out for a pizza, sitting on out butt and watching cable, you should take a Valium and join us

"Now, urbanization classified as "Development" promotes farms minimisation/elimination, replacing farms with concrete buildings, noise & pollution, canned foods instead of fresh one, driving & biking instead of walking & cycling, consuming excessive amounts of water, electricity, fuel, paper, plastic, chemicals, pesticides, generating lot of waste, gas emissions, etc. impacting "Global Warming" with aspiration for "Sustainable Development"."

That would happen if you kept all those people inside the city. So, what's your point?

For that matter, what is the point of your post?

What came first, the increased efficiencies in agriculture or the advancements initiated by the industrial age? Farming is more similar to a factory now than it ever was, be it the family farm or the mega-corporation's many farming locations. Industry made things to make the farmer more efficient at the farmers request. More efficient farms want to be even more productive so they go to the industries for more and better equipment to farm with. Industry sees a very good market for their goods so they design and make better farming equipment. Each section enhances the other until it becomes a continuous process. As things became more productive on the farm more people who wanted to leave left to eventually become the labor and designers of industries.

Each environment was not satisfactory to all. Have you ever been shut in on a factory floor doing the same thing receptively every 43.65 seconds? Have you ever lived on a farm and suffered from hay fever? Have you ever driven 25 miles for a box of Rice Krispies? (snap, crackle and pop) Have you ever lived in a building where no one has ever met their next door neighbors? The only thing you know about them is by the loud noises they make on the other side of the wall. Alas, different strokes for different folks.

Speaking of the glorious times on the farm, have you ever driven past a field that has just been fertilized with liquid bovine manure? No thanks, NIMBY! It's smell is worse than the socks of a high school football team after fermenting for 2 weeks.

Industry and farming go hand-in-hand. Each one needs the other. How many farmers would there be if there was no pharmaceutical researchers to find treatments for dysentery, yellow fever (remember the Panama Canal?), and others. How many pharmaceutical researchers would there be if there was no food to feed them?

Farming and Industry can not be separated into good or bad. They both are dependent upon each other. Global warming is due to both, not just the cities.

Good Luck, Old Salt

Once again the premise is off base with the assumption that: a) there is "global warming" and b) that man has something to do with it.

There are for sure cycles of warming and cooling over the thousands of years that records have been kept. None of those cycles are connected with anything manmade.

I would certainly agree that not all "progression" and "advancement" is healthy or good. We spend more on food than any country in the world and are one of the least fit people in the world. We Americans are becoming more obese and out of shape by the day.

So much I could say but so little I care to say to anyone who has to post anonymously on this topic.