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Climate change policy is serious and is solely about the climate
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:46 am
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:46 am
The Nation: If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership.
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Fires have dominated the California news cycle in the past, as the dry season dragged into October and the Santa Ana winds started to blow. But this fall seemed different. In the wake of November 2018’s Camp Fire—the deadliest, most destructive fire in the state’s history, killing at least 85 people—we entered what might be considered a year of climate change awareness, bookended by the news that we may only have a dozen years to contain global warming and the Global Climate Strike this September. News accounts about wildfires have taken on even greater urgency. As many commentators have noted, the changing climate and ongoing deficiencies in the regulation and management of utility companies present a new, dreadful normal.
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But few are discussing one key aspect of California’s crisis: Yes, climate change intensifies the fires—but the ways in which we plan and develop our cities makes them even more destructive. The growth of urban regions in the second half of the 20th century has been dominated by economic development, aspirations of home ownership, and belief in the importance of private property. Cities and towns have expanded in increasingly disperse fashion, fueled by cheap energy. Infrastructure has been built, deregulated, and privatized, extending services in more and more tenuous and fragile ways. Our ideas about what success, comfort, home, and family should look like are so ingrained, it’s hard for us to see how they could be reinforcing the very conditions that put us at such grave risk.
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There are other options, in theory: Rental housing serves many cities around the world well, although we should be wary about perpetuating the power of landlords in this country without delinking ownership from wealth creation. There has been resurgent interest in government-planned and -built public housing, including recent legislation proposed by Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders that would shore up and invigorate the federal system. The Green New Deal invokes prior eras of government intervention, lending itself to revitalized thinking about the social value of public goods.
There is also the potential for new or reconstituted forms of cooperative housing. In New York City, cooperative apartment buildings have long been a norm. These kinds of ownership structures have often been deprioritized in federal housing subsidy programs and discouraged by standard lending practices in many regions. It is, by regulatory design, hard to do anything not consistent with the status quo. Community land trusts—nonprofit, community-based land ownership, with housing units that are typically leased in perpetual affordable status—are a promising model. There are now more than 240 community land trusts in the United States, and they are increasingly part of the consideration for those pursuing a more affordable and less market-reliant alternative. (Bernie Sanders, as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, was an early champion of the idea.) The idea of cooperative living—in both financial and social terms—needs room to breathe and grow.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:47 am to SlowFlowPro
Global Marxism movement disguised as environmentalism is still Marxist.
Shocked, I tell ya.
Shocked, I tell ya.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:47 am to SlowFlowPro
these people are seriously wanting to eat some lead and not from a paint can either
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:52 am to SlowFlowPro
Make no mistake. This is exactly what the leftists (communists) want for you and your family:
Everyone in old Soviet style apartment blocks.
"Utopia" is "equal misery for everyone" to the left.
Everyone in old Soviet style apartment blocks.
"Utopia" is "equal misery for everyone" to the left.
This post was edited on 12/27/19 at 9:53 am
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:52 am to SlowFlowPro
CC is just being used as a Trojan horse by marxists.
"The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution."
"The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution."
This post was edited on 12/27/19 at 9:53 am
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:53 am to SlowFlowPro
Without property rights we don't have an economy or any semblance of a free society
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:00 am to SlowFlowPro
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This ideological geography keeps playing out in devastating and contradictory ways. Climate change generally impacts the poorest and most vulnerable people first. In Los Angeles, we see the impacts of increased heat on homeless people, the elderly, and the very young; in New York, some public housing residents must still rely on temporary boilers seven years after Hurricane Sandy. But in the Saddleridge Fire, the homes at risk were not those of residents pushed beyond the urban fringe.
This is just sillyness
Poor people will always have it tougher, with or without any sort of climate change.
And the temperature in L.A. is pretty comfortable. I doubt the homeless are worried about getting too hot in L.A. of all places.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:02 am to SlowFlowPro
These people are begging for a helicopter ride.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:05 am to SlowFlowPro
So they want to have the right to housing, but not the right to own property?
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:07 am to SlowFlowPro
Why is taking California so long to fall off and sink in the damn ocean?
If they want government intervention then I say start with the Federal government taking over California. The melt from Trump ending their stupid laws would be epic.
If they want government intervention then I say start with the Federal government taking over California. The melt from Trump ending their stupid laws would be epic.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:27 am to SlowFlowPro
I own, OWN, two houses and will not be cowed into thinking renting is the replacement for ownership.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:28 am to SlowFlowPro
The California fires have way more to do with them refusing to have controlled burns than muh private housing.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:28 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:
If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership.
Ridiculous.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:33 am to SlowFlowPro
This is the second left wing article suggesting we shouldn’t live in single family homes in the last 7 days. (The first in the daily caller discussed some proposed law by a nutbag in VA that wants to ban single family zoning because climate change). They also are suggesting that we have more abortions bc it’s better for the environment. Why do all their solutions to climate change involve me giving them my life, liberty or property??? They think they know what to do better with it but they can’t even tell me when or where a hurricane will hit.
These people are totalitarian wackos.
They want us only have the correct kind of babies, born to the correct people, who live in the correct places. Everyone else can basically die bc they aren’t worthy to live on this earth.
Damn each and every one of these tyrants to the Eutopian hell they want everyone else to live in.
These people are totalitarian wackos.
They want us only have the correct kind of babies, born to the correct people, who live in the correct places. Everyone else can basically die bc they aren’t worthy to live on this earth.
Damn each and every one of these tyrants to the Eutopian hell they want everyone else to live in.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 11:06 am to SlowFlowPro
California: How can we prevent and mitigate wildfire damage?
Logical Person: Well, you could dam up some rivers to make lakes, making water more plentiful and available. You could also perform controlled burns to get rid of undergrowth which astronomically fuels wildfires.
California:
Let's see if we can get 50 people to live in a 1200 sq ft home. . .
Logical Person: Well, you could dam up some rivers to make lakes, making water more plentiful and available. You could also perform controlled burns to get rid of undergrowth which astronomically fuels wildfires.
California:
Let's see if we can get 50 people to live in a 1200 sq ft home. . .
This post was edited on 12/27/19 at 11:08 am
Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:26 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:How obvious does it have to be?
and belief in the importance of private property.
quote:
Infrastructure has been built, deregulated, and privatized,
Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
I’ve said it another thread that there is no doubt in my mind that before 2030 that the abolishment of private home and land ownership will be official democrat party policy.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:39 pm to SlowFlowPro
My dad used to call the environmentalists watermelons.
Green on the outside.
Red on the inside.
Green on the outside.
Red on the inside.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:39 pm to SlowFlowPro
Also the hidden gem of cheap available energy being the enemy too. True colors all over the place.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 1:08 pm to SlowFlowPro
The people pushing that propaganda need to eat a bullet.
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