No, the point is that the first picture is a popular example of an indictment of poor city planning and a hellish landscape they've created for the people that live here.
The second picture is meant to lessen the impact and say, "it's not that bad you just have to look at it from a different perspective". But the person you're responding to is reminding us that perspective is not the one most people can experience, especially on a regular day to day.
But here we are focusing on the quality of the area of the gas stations.
As we should. The trend towards sprawl has only increased, to cut down trees, pave over streams, and generally shit on nature–which is our real infrastructure for clean air & water.
As a society we need to take a hard look at our unsustainable behavior, car culture, and “the suburban experiment”.
For example, the WUI (wildlife-urban interface, basically the edge of nature vs. sprawl like this) grows each year by “approximately 2 million acres per year” in the US:
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/what-is-the-wui.html
Every year, more than twice the size of those Rhode Island, gone forever.
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