What's your biggest city-influenced environmental pet peeve?

Question

is it something the city does? is it something the people around you does?

Answer 1

h**l yes, the poorly programmed stoplights that make it difficult for pedestrian traffic to cross.. The idiots that turn in front of pedestrian traffic.

Just the general idea that you NEED a car to get anywhere.

Answer 2

Easy for me....It is the heat sink effect cities have in the summer time.  Just a few miles outside large city areas it can be 5-10 degrees cooler. All that concrete and asphalt holds heat all day and night

Answer 3

I think we use way too much electricity, and we don't take advantage of public transportation.

I also detest people that litter.  How hard is it to put garbage in the trash can?

Answer 4

It is pollution. I live in a big city in the South. It has overgrown so much, and they cut down so many trees. Then, the extra cars with carbons, cause the city to have smog and pollution. Bad air, that is concern for asthma sufferers, the elderly, and anyone with breathing problems. We need more planned transportation, where people can leave the suburbs and go to work, instead of driving single cars.

Answer 5

Give permits to builders to develop untouched land into houses, shopping centers, or other structures.   I already share a home with a bunch of woodland creatures, and I'm sure they're not thrilled about sharing it with me either.  It all sounds fun and cute until packs of coyotes start running off with your pets or leaving pieces of them all over your backyard.  You can't blame them though, we are destroying their habitat and leaving them no where to live, hunt, or roam.

Answer 6

YES!

I live on the Ohio River in Evansville Indiana, and there is SOOOOOO much garbage in the river, it isnt even funny!

Its really embarrassing to the city when people come and visit and see all the stuff in the river, and it makes me cry.

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--alee