I was  musing this morning about why we have such an uphill battle trying to convince people who live in the cities that

• we don’t need wind and solar power to ‘clean’ up our planet
• man-made global warming is NOT happening
• climate change is natural
• the world is NOT imploding from pollution

It’s perspective.   According to New Geography and  Columbia University Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center’s  Gridded Population of the World and the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, only 2.6% of the world (not including Antarctica) is covered by cities.  But over 50% of the worlds population live in those cities.

Since those who live in the city perceive urban areas to be dirty and polluted (whether they are or not — that is the common belief) that must mean, by extension, that the entire rest of the 97.4% of the planet must be also.

Those who don’t…