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@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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It's over. Suburban sprawl lost. We all lost. Image
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A strictly geometric exercise in physical distribution of humans and things humans need to survive.

Homebuilders/planners warned against sprawl in 1959: Image
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We have built the perfect Ponzi scheme, and it is collapsing. We are in the denial stage of grief over this certainty. bloomberg.com/news/features/…Image
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Something that's struck me as strange about the discourse about "the groups" and "billionaire oligarchs" is that basically every leftist non-profit and socialist-coded organization is funded at some level by capitalist billionaire tech oligarchs.

Why don't we talk about that? 🧵
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Trump's call for price controls on cars -- which came right after he effectively put the US Government in charge of car production quotas -- is interesting if you unpack the politics of it.

Yes, it is a transparently communist policy. But so is everything about cars in the US.
American drivers now have multiple generations of acculturation to price controls, quotas, and mandates when it comes to cars; they are fully adapted to communism, even though they still laugh when you point it out.

And this is not a Republican thing. It's bipartisan.
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We've never let capitalism anywhere near the car industry.
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For folks new to Abundance discourse you may notice that its critics are, almost to a person, the same people who, about 10 years ago, started opposing YIMBYism because YIMBYs want more homes.

A thread about what's happening 🧵
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So when YIMBYs showed up it was natural for that coalition to not just hang together, but go to war:

YIMBYs are a threat to their ideology. YIMBYs properly diagnosed the problem -- a housing shortage -- that they mutually caused, and maintain for their profit and enjoyment.
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That’s the year California voters passed Prop 103.

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It made it illegal for insurance premiums to adjust based on risk, banned the use of forecast models…
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It essentially killed the primary purpose of insurance, which is to signal to market the degree of financial risk someone was taking with a house or car.
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