Most people, even in the US, don’t live in detached homes with a yard. The amount of sprawl required to accomplish that “dream” of everyone living in a detached home with a huge yard would be a disaster for the environment and commutes.
2/3 of home buyers have single family detached as their preferred housing, so more people want to live in that type of housing than currently do so.
Much of the rest of what is said here contra your viewpoint is also readily observable common knowledge.
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> To be clear: Climate change is a very important problem. It needs to be solved, along with other problems like malaria and malnutrition. Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives.
Reducing sprawl is plainly a good strategy to reduce transportation and infrastructure needs, and preserve wildlife.