Urban Sprawl and Global Warming
From The Baltimore Sun
Suburban sprawl is the missing link in climate change, a group of urban planning researchers said today, warning in a new report that global warming can only be slowed by changing development patterns to reduce the need for driving.
It’s simple and obvious solutions like these that our fearless leaders so blatantly ignore in their rabid quest for profit at the expense of our environment and the lives of the working class.
Fact: Global warming is real and is caused by humans, mostly the United States
Fact: Fat-cat racist corporations like Exxon/Mobil and Chevron/Texaco spend BILLIONS of dollars a year on misinformation campaigns designed to keep the public in the dark so that the CEO’s stock options will go up a quarter of a point
Fact : If we don’t do something soon life as we know it on Earth will cease to exist. The planet has never* experienced a crisis of this magnitude before and it is up to our generation to save it.
Simple ideas like this not only make sense, they save money in the long run. If everybody lived in properly planned cities we wouldn’t need cars or even buses, we could walk or ride super-efficient vehicles like Segways wherever we needed to go.
Building homes and businesses closer together, with more opportunities to walk to work and to shop, could reduce driving by 20 to 40 percent, the report argues. Residents in compact urban neighborhoods with access to public transportation typically drive a third fewer miles than do auto-dependent suburbanites, it points out.
It seems like I see African-Americans utilizing public transportation and walking or cycling much more often than I do European-Americans. Just another example of the valuable lessons we can learn from minorities. I’ve always said they had more to share with us than Jazz and Maya Angelou. We shall overcome!
*except for the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and the flood in Genesis
September 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Sometimes I wish I were a minority instead of a man trapped in the skin of the oppressors.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
That is why I wear dreads.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
If you guys can’t leave serious comments I’m going to have to delete them. This is important to me and I don’t wish to be mocked.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
This is the most insightful site I have come across in a long time. Thank you for being a paradigm for liberals everywhere.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
African-Americans also can teach us about buying locally grown products, like red drink. While white folks are importing speciatly drinks from countries that exploit chilren, pollute the Earth, and shoot bullets into the air, the black folks are supporting the local economy and lessing the pollution caused by transporting goods from far away lands.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Sorry, granolafag. I agree with your assessments, I just wanted to seem sarcastic in my remarks.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:48 am
I do not think your real name is Granolafag.