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(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS Profile picture
@mateosfo
Sep 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This one is for my climate peeps:

Just in case you hadn't heard, housing policy is climate policy. But it's not enough to change land use patterns to reduce pollution from cars. We're going to have to re-build a whole bunch of civilization away from climate impacts.
We've all been in those climate meetings (I'm thinking late 2000's in particular) where someone brings up need to integrate "adaptation," and is immediately shushed by VSPs and funders.

The time for shushing is long gone. We have to adapt. We can't live the way same anymore.
What does adaptation look like? Well, in immediate, it looks like ... losing entire communities to fire/flood, then kluging together a place for displaced people to live.

But *planning* doesn't wait for catastrophe. Changes to built environments take *lots of time and money.*
We're very late getting started on this, but while the best time to mitigate and adapt to climate change was 20 years ago, the second best time is right now.

We'll be talking about all these topics *tomorrow* with some of the best experts in California. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Please join us! And while you're at it, join @cayimby and help us make California a more affordable - and climate-resilient - place to live, for everyone.
cc: @AIGreve @CoolClimateNw @TorresKristen can't wait to mix it up with you all!
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(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS Profile picture
Mar 26
LOL I read report, had a hunch about why Houston -- fastest-growing large city in US -- is broke.

My hunch was correct!! It's the actual cost of car sprawl coming due.

What's funny is, since the report was written by a right-wing/pro-sprawl org, they focus on "pension reform."


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Pension reform is important! But authors take pains to show pension liabilities as %, rather than actual costs.

And why is that?

Because Houston's net pension liability is less than 10% of sprawl liability. And Houston's conservatives love their massively-subsidized sprawl.
share this with your favorite "But drivers already pay the cost of roads" trolls, they're gonna absolutely hate it
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Feb 18
I’m presently on holiday and the first thing I notice when I leave US is, we really don’t have any idea what a civilized society looks or feels like, physically.

Most countries have infinitely more humanity in their streets.

We have banned it.
And it’s not like bans on humans in our cities benefits anyone — aside from the car industry, which, compared to rest of world, utterly owns our government.

Shortest life spans, highest rate of violent driver injury and death, highest cost of living/transport in the OECD …
… highest rates of childhood depression and isolation, most isolated and mobility-restricted seniors, highest carbon per capita — all of it is due to how we’ve mandated driving for every activity, and banned walking, transit, biking.

No third places, just parking lots.
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Jan 30
A bunch of years ago a very well-intentioned high school student convinced everyone he could sweep all plastic out of the ocean.

Oceanographers were quite frustrated by attention he got, because most of the plastic in the ocean is micron-scale.

And most of it is car tires.
So we now have the phenomenon of well-intentioned environmentalists who drive everywhere they go, depositing plastic in ocean as they do, killing salmon and poisoning the food chain — and some of that driving is to attend protests to ban plastic bags.

You know. For the oceans.
the performative environmentalism will continue until, is our oceans learning
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Dec 13, 2023
[clears throat] "electric cars are good"

OK, with that out the way: An electric car is only good for the climate to the extent it is driven. That is, an old gasoline car that is only driven 50 miles per week will be lower-carbon than a new EV driven 50 miles per week.
Reason is, carbon accounting on electric cars uses old CAFE standard -- how much pollution per mile?

And obviously, on per mile basis,* EVs have lower carbon pollution than gas cars.

*But the EV "break even" moment doesn't happen til EV has been driven news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
~ about 55,000 miles.

Thanks to the driving mandates imposed on us by most US cities, many people will hit 55,000 miles in ~ 3-4 years. Pretty good!

Except, *not good for climate.*

Because in order for electric cars to be a climate solution ...
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Nov 4, 2023
Thing non-violent drivers have to understand is how many drivers are openly violent and even talk openly about how they would kill a pedestrian or bikling if they felt the human walking or biking caused them delay or inconvenience or even just annoyance.

As an uncarred human
I can not, from the crosswalk or bike lane, tell if the driver headed for me is violent or non-violent. All I see are people on their phones while sitting behind the wheel of a car — so, mostly violent drivers.

And because so many drivers are violent I don’t have the luxury …
… of giving any driver benefit of the doubt. Any one of you could kill me.

I hope all the non-violent drivers consider this when they see an uncarred human get upset at a driver failing to yield at a crosswalk, or opening their door into a bike lane, or honking at a bikling
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Oct 8, 2023
It is so weird to be an American Jew.

Most of us are “white,” but whiteness is provisional/geographic — in more Republican/white supremacist areas, we’re less white & subject to racist terror attacks.

Most of us are liberal/progressives who despise Bibi & Likudniks but also …
… have family (including ourselves!) who are literally only alive because of Israel’s existence.

Most of us support democracy & a two-state solution and are horrified by right-wing end-times evangelicals in the GOP who use Zionism as thin cover for Taliban-style objectives …
… but also, think Hamas is not helping Palestinian cause *at all.*

And so we’re still, after all these millennia, a people without a home.

DSA celebrates our deaths the same as Hamas.

Republicans only “love” us because their book says they can meet Jesus when we all die.
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