Because if you want to preserve the natural environment you need to stop replacing it with single family homes and parking lots. High density cities are also way more efficient with energy in multiple ways.
It suck living around so many people but it is one of the single most impactful ways to manage climate change.
I live in the middle of nowhere or at least I used to. It's getting too crowded around here time to move again. I got problems but neighbors and noise are not among them.
Yeah that sounds like the middle of somewhere if it's getting crowded, you're lookin' for like, upstate Maine. Hell, northern Saskatchewan if you really hate people.