Rural life sucks, part 3: Environment

Welcome to part three of my rural life sucks series.

How many of these will I write? That’s like asking how many trailer park meth labs will explode in the next 12 months, or how many newspapers and hospitals in sparsely populated areas will shut down — simply unknowable.

Today, I want to take a look at how rural and urban life compare on the next dimension. Let’s look at what researchers say about both the environment in rural areas and how rural living impacts the environment overall.