Rich people + McDonald's = McMansions???

This year's award for "Dumbest Column to show up in a Glossy." Among the choice phrases that helped garner the prize: "Since 80 percent of Americans live in metropolitan areas, aren't they at least 80 percent guilty?" You'll recall the New Yorker article (pdf) that illustrated how people living in denser settings actually make fewer demands on natural resources. Too bad the author is so intent on pitting rural dwellers against urbanites that he misses the bigger opportunity to highlight the intrinsic interdependence that we - urbanists and ruralists and those in between - all have on our natural resources.