your first sentence is an extremely disingenuous and bad faith argument. we did not have anything remotely like two car family quarter acre lot suburban sprawl. we also had nearly a full order of magnitude fewer people.

I also never said "everyone". this is very common response from people who feel personally attacked, they respond defensively with an extreme re-formulation of what was said.

you're posting on HN so i'm hoping I can appeal to whatever piece of your brain is capable of reasoning in the abstract. look at both lines of your response. think about them.