Berkeley bans natural gas and eliminates gender language from city codes

Berkeley bans natural gas and gender language (doubles down on stupid)

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More bans are being implemented in Berkeley, California.

The Bay Area city has become the first in the nation to ban natural gas Opens a New Window. lines from being installed in new low-rise residential buildings. The City Council voted in favor of the measure that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, the San Francisco Chronicle Opens a New Window. reported.

The new homes will instead be required to have electric infrastructure. Berkeley councilwoman Kate Harrison, who spearheaded the ordinance, said natural gas is an “enormous issue” when it comes to climate change.

“We need to really tackle this. When we think about pollution and climate-change issues, we tend to think about factories and cars, but all buildings are producing greenhouse gas,” Harrison told the newspaper on Wednesday.

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On Tuesday, the City Council also passed an ordinance that barred gendered language in the city’s municipal code, the Chronicle Opens a New Window. reported. The words, such as manhole and manpower, will be replaced with neutral terms such as “maintenance hole” and “human effort” or “workforce.” Updating city forms will cost Berkeley an estimated $600. The pronouns “she,” “he,” “her” and “him,” will be replaced with “they” and “them.” “Men and women” will be replaced with “people,” or “a single gender” when referring to a male or female.

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I seriously don’t know that there’s a bigger hotbed for plain human stupidity than Berkeley California. What could possibly make anyone want to live in such an area unless of course they identified with such lunacy? It’s certainly no place I’d want to actually live my life. It just barely resembles America, and I mean just barely, or in name only perhaps.