Americans still define a good house without any ecological awareness

Evidence

For almost all Americans, the definition of a good house has not changed much since the rise of the environmental movement: A good house is a house with adequate and aesthetically satisfying space, in a pleasant neighborhood, in a good school district, with bearable taxes, and with a good chance of appreciating in value. That list of essential attributes still does not reflect a deep sense of our dependence on the larger living world of plants and animals and microbes, of soil and water and air. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1085

Categorization

• XREF: Returns full circle to the book’s opening theme that consumer environmentalism stopped at the edge of homeowners’ own property. — connects to: Homebuyers keep buying risky homes because regulation costs eat their housing budget — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 1084; Residential preferences are culturally shaped, not rational givens — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 384

Broader Connections

• Residential preferences are culturally shaped, not rational givens #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 384