Second and Third-Stage Consequences of #FossilFueled #Climate Disruptions Emerging Fast
https://nader.org/2023/09/08/second-and-third-stage-consequences-of-fossil-fueled-climate-disruptions-emerging-fast/

@GottaLaff Apologies for lack of clarity - I didn't think or mean to imply you were defending him. (I on the other hand, was offering the administration constructive criticism. We need bold leadership on Climate, not cowering from the #fossilfueled #GOP lies about energy and energy costs.)

(As you can see, I have opinions)

#FossilFueled #Disinfo vs #Ecodesign
"The concept is pretty simple: Everything you need should be within a roughly 15-minute walk / cycle from your home, from health care & education to grocery stores & green spaces.

The aim is to make cities more livable & connected, w/ less private car use – meaning cleaner air, greener streets & lower levels of planet-heating pollution. 1/5 of that pollution comes from transport, & passenger cars make up more than 40%." https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/world/15-minute-cities-conspiracy-theory-climate-intl/index.html

280 from San Bruno to Cupertino is exclusive, wealthy, devoid of black and indigenous residents, and where the earliest species on the #EndangeredSpecies List, the checkerspot #butterfly, was extirpated by the nitrogen deposition from #fossilfueled cars on serpentine soils, causing invasive grasses to blot out the sun for the caterpillars host plant. Today to protect the wealth CalFire has destroyed #habitat in this stretch for 100s of #rareplants and species including the western blue bird.

280 from San Bruno to Cupertino is exclusive, wealthy, devoid of black and indigenous residents, and where the earliest species on the #EndangeredSpecies List, the checkerspot #butterfly, was extirpated by the nitrogen deposition from #fossilfueled cars on serpentine soils, causing invasive grasses to blot out the sun for the caterpillars host plant. Today to protect the wealth CalFire has destroyed #habitat in this stretch for 100s of rare platters and species including the western blue bird.

3/3 And what are the options for “drastic moves away from" #fossilfueled transport? Why aren’t we building #WalkableCities on a denser habitation footprint and instead settling for inactivity, disease, pollution, extinction, #ClimateChange, #DisposablePeoples, and always broke transit? "Monopoly means never having to upgrade your product; nobody’s competing with you on quality... as monopoly breeds complacency."

Dayen, David; Dayen, David. Monopolized (p. 178). The New Press.