22 Jul 08
Former Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown is waging war on California suburbs because of global warming, says Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. The problem is, Californians do not want to leave the suburbs for the cities:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121642163643366589.html
22 Jul 08
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterGood for him! I thought him run-of-the-mill!
Former Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown is waging war on California suburbs because of global warming, says Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. The problem is, Californians do not want to leave the suburbs for the cities:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121642163643366589.html
22 Jul 08
Originally posted by scherzoI'm not surprised you approve of what Gov. Moonbeam is trying to do – you've been on the wrong side of most of the issues today.
Good for him! I thought him run-of-the-mill!
According to Ali Modarres, associate director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University Los Angeles, there is little evidence behind the science used to justify the drive to resettling the cities -- and plenty of power behind the argument that suburbs are better for Mother Earth:
• Forcing developers to build near transit lines, a strategy favored by "smart-growth advocates," does not mean residents will actually take the train or bus; in fact, a survey by the Los Angeles Times found that only a small fraction of residents shunned their cars during rush hour.
• Several prominent scholars have found there is little evidence linking suburbanization to global warming, pointing out that density itself can produce increased auto congestion and pollution.
Also, the antisuburbanites ignore evidence that packing people together in cities produces "heat islands." Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles sometimes reach as much as three degrees centigrade higher than outlying areas. Recent studies in Australia have shown that multistoried housing generates higher carbon emissions than either townhomes or single-family residences because of the energy consumed by common areas, elevators and parking structures, as well as the lack of tree cover.
In short, "new urbanism" is nothing more than "old communist central planning," and it does nothing to contain "global warming" and in fact, worsens it.
22 Jul 08
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterI read the article. There's no need to reiterate your interpretation. You and dryhump, you're both acting like Joe McCarthy, who I assume is your hero.
I'm not surprised you approve of what Gov. Moonbeam is trying to do – you've been on the wrong side of most of the issues today.
According to Ali Modarres, associate director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University Los Angeles, there is little evidence behind the science used to justify the driv ...[text shortened]... lanning," and it does nothing to contain "global warming" and in fact, worsens it.
22 Jul 08
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterCalifornia?
Former Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown is waging war on California suburbs because of global warming, says Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. The problem is, Californians do not want to leave the suburbs for the cities:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121642163643366589.html
Surely that will be Arizona bay if global warming has its way!
(Thanks to Bill Hicks for that little quip)
