With all respect to rural/exurb living, converting agricultural land or forests to 1-2 acre exurb lots is terrible for the environment.
A landscape chopped up into small personal plots is much less sustainable than a continuous countryside dotted with village clusters that could (theoretically) be served by bus and by a health centre.
Most people only actually want/are able to live on their exurb acreage for a few years; after the kids are grown, before physical decline.
An agricultural or forest landscape dotted with windmills is more appealing to me than the endless exurb sprawl that has claimed the land between Toronto & Waterloo (and, yes, I own land in the country that I chose to leave agricultural/forest, rather than living on it).
A landscape chopped up into small personal plots is much less sustainable than a continuous countryside dotted with village clusters that could (theoretically) be served by bus and by a health centre.
Most people only actually want/are able to live on their exurb acreage for a few years; after the kids are grown, before physical decline.
An agricultural or forest landscape dotted with windmills is more appealing to me than the endless exurb sprawl that has claimed the land between Toronto & Waterloo (and, yes, I own land in the country that I chose to leave agricultural/forest, rather than living on it).