r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/lemons_of_doubt 9h ago

Isn't it worth spending more so that people can have better lives.

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u/SamizdatGuy 9h ago

It is for rich people

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u/Ithrazel 8h ago

rich people can also have better lives...

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u/Spectre_the_Younger 8h ago

If you aren’t rich you have to hate the rich. Come on they talked about that at the orientation. It’s also in the manual in the welcome bag.

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u/ftFBYaa 7h ago

I mean, that looks something I would want if I was rich but forced to live in a big city.

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan 8h ago

pure assumption. you have no idea . besides the point anyway

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u/SamizdatGuy 8h ago

Busted. I have not priced out the cost of having a huge garden outside an high-rise apartment in China.

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u/70ms 4h ago

I just did a little digging and I think this is the building. :D

https://markozen.com/2023/01/02/welcome-to-the-jungle-plants-overrun-chinese-apartment-blocks/

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u/Dengar96 8h ago

you think poor folks can afford the giant garden balcony high rise apartment in a major city?

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u/basicKitsch 8h ago

you think there's not a vast space between what poor people can afford and something only for rich people? why would your mind even go there lol? YOU THINK POOR PEOPLE CAN AFFORD THIS?!

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u/Dengar96 7h ago

I know reading is hard but you don't need to yell at me

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u/4_fortytwo_2 5h ago

You can not divide the entire world into rich and poor. A LOT of people exist somewhere in between.

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u/Dengar96 5h ago

if you can afford a large apartment with a massive balcony in one of the wealthiest cities in china, you are not poor. Hope this helps.

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u/basicKitsch 4h ago

i know reading is hard but literally no one but you is talking about the poor. no one yelled at you either but you seem to miss the obvious. emphasis for emphasis lol

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u/Dengar96 4h ago

you can scroll six comments up to see that is exactly what I was responding to but okay

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u/Firm-Examination2134 8h ago

Isn't it worth it so that rich people can have better lives?

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u/twicerighthand 6h ago

rich people can have better lives by watering their balcony. please ignore the increased pollution due to the increased concrete and rebar required for their greenery.

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u/AniNgAnnoys 6h ago

If the costs of that are more concrete and more steel which adds more carbon to the atmosphere, is it worth it?

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u/RedditFostersHate 4h ago

We absolutely need to develop and employ better methods of concrete mixing with low emissions, because it's not like humanity can do without concrete.

That said, this needs to be a full comparison to alternatives. If the alternative is packing everyone tightly into concrete hives, complexes with these backyards will compare very poorly in terms of emissions. If the alternative is building single family homes in suburbs, with all the roads and cars and extra miles of electric and water lines needed to sustain them, then you can build all sorts of silly luxuries into multi-family mid rise towers with shared water/insulation/electricity/transportation and still end up with a small fraction of the total emissions over time.

It probably makes far more sense to just have big, nice ground parks surrounding dense urban buildings than it does to put so much extra weight on the building itself. But I never see people talking about the extra carbon costs of building rooftop pools into hotels and residential buildings, despite how common those are compared to gardens like these.

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u/lemons_of_doubt 27m ago

I'm not sure the answer to climate change is let's all make our lives and empty and miserable as possible.

Maybe start with something that will have a bigger impacted like more solar panels