womenhaveovaries

Have any sociologists looked into the role over-population might play? Not everyone enjoys being stacked in cramped spaces or living in communities with a high people per square mile density. The more people in the world and the less free space, the more I hope for calamities and disasters.

I didn't used to feel this way. There used to be more empty land, more green spaces between towns. Now housing and people are everywhere. When I was a kid I could ride my bicycle from one town to another thirty miles away, lots of farmland. Now forty years later, there's 100 houses on that same route when there used to be 10. I no longer get upset when I hear that hundreds or thousands of people died in some accident or disaster. Instead, I'm like good, hope those remaining quit breeding. I used to feel SAD when I heard about people dying! Their suffering mattered to me. Now I'm just like, oh well, there's already too many people.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/10/27/for-friendly-neighbors-try-cul-sac/IMiJsD8AWWHluKd11YkWoL/story.html

Only 5.4 percent of homeowners on through streets cited strong attachments to their neighbors, compared with more than 31 percent of those living along cul-de-sacs, his research has found.

Why is the most reliable method not simply looking at someone's current power bill, and seeing how much electricity they use each month/each year on average?

(I fully admit to being an idiot.)