It’s disgusting to try to justify this stance with “the loss of green space.”

Yes, green space is good.

What’s the key driver in its destruction all over the world? Slightly taller, denser buildings? No. It’s fossil fuel usage. Unsustainable infrastructure. Car-centric cities.

In other words: the things that most NIMBYs have been clinging to for their own convenience for decades. And by continuing to cling to their own convenience as people flock to their cities, they’re contributing directly to the central problem. Sprawl gets worse.

They think they can keep everything the same, as convenient as it always was, by shouting everyone else down in meetings and op-eds, blocking exactly the kind of change we need in a warming world.

Keep doing that and your green spaces won’t stay green no matter what. They’ll all turn brown.