embedded machine learning research engineer - georgist - urbanist - environmentalist
Yup, tons more parking and tons more road space per capita as well. Low-density sprawl just needs a lot more stuff per capita.
Additionally, most of the world’s Muslims don’t live in the Middle East or North Africa. South and and Southeast Asia combined have by far the largest Muslim population in the world. India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. And the way they practice Islam is quite different from the Middle East and North Africa. According to Wikipedia, there are about 241 million in Pakistan, 236 million in Indonesia, about 200 million in India, and 151 million in Bangladesh.
Oh and bonus point for the fact that filing personal income taxes absolutely sucks and is an undue burden on the working class. With carbon (or other Pigouvian) taxes, only businesses would have to account for their carbon. With land value taxes, the government can easily calculate the value of land by similar statistical methods it uses for assessing property values for property taxes and then just tell you what you owe. With severance taxes, only businesses such as oil and mining and timber companies would have to do the accounting.
Enshrinklification of the internet