“The UN described encampments in Oakland and SF as ‘cruel and inhumane.’ … In 2020, 19 murders, or 18% of all murders in Oakland, occurred in encampments. City staff were threatened on multiple occasions with guns, bottles, axes and aggressive dogs”
“The City was not prepared to shoulder such a massive project… EMT was overwhelmed by closing & cleaning encampments in Oakland… the audit found the City lacked an effective strategy for dealing with the growth in encampments & did not provide adequate policy direction”
“Oakland has seen a dramatic rise in gun crimes, from homicides to shootings to armed robberies and carjackings. But there is another troubling trend: mass shootings — defined as single incidents with four or more gunshot victims — are up, too.”
“Shootings are also up more than 70% and carjackings by almost 88%, with 1,300 robberies recorded already this year,” said Oakland’s Police Chief. “Crime is out of control in the city of Oakland — and our response was for less police.”
The encampment grew out of the Occupy Wall St. protests in front of Oakland City Hall in 2011. Progressives demanded & mayor allowed Occupy camp at City Hall until a man was shot and killed
Seattle’s mayor last year ignored the danger of similar occupation. Two men were killed.
The husband of a progressive City Council member said fire showed need for housing
Most progressives oppose building sufficient shelters & requiring people stay in them, as Amsterdam, NYC, Miami, & most cities do
Result is tiny # of $750k/unit apartments & dangerous encampments
Oakland’s progressive city council members eg Nikki Bas, whose husband is in the video above, support the encampments through an organization called The Village, which is “Creating autonomous encampments on public and private land in Oakland”
Homeless encampments look like natural disasters but they’re not, they’re open drug scenes that grew from 2011-2021 bc progressive activists & politicians advocates for them
Nikki Bas was head of major progressive NGO funded by Rockefeller, Ford, OSI (Soros) AFL-CIO, et al.
“People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006. The answer is we had San Onofre [nuclear plant] and a number of other plants totaling thousands of megawatts not there today.” - California electricity grid manager, 2020
“For years we pointed out that there was inadequate supply after electricity from solar has left the peak. We have indicated that procurement needed to be fixed. We have told regulators over and over that more should be contracted for. That was rebuffed. And here we are”
Despite the on-going energy crisis created by shutting down a nuclear plant that generated power for 3M Californians, Gov @GavinNewsom is moving ahead with plans to shut down another nuclear plant that provides electricity for 3M Californians
After a dramatic video of a fire on the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico went viral last week, many journalists, scientists, and elected officials referred to it as more evidence of catastrophic climate change.
“The ocean is literally on fire,” tweeted California Governor @GavinNewsom , “but yeah, sure. We can't afford climate action.”
Journalists, experts, and elected officials are today blaming heat wave deaths, forest fires, and electricity shortages in New York, California, and Texas on climate change
But the underlying cause of those events is lack of air conditioning, lack of electricity, and the failure to properly manage forests, not marginal changes to temperatures.
All of those news stories including “explainer” stories we are seeing right now are grossly misleading because they deliberately *exclude* all of the relevant context that @BjornLomborg provided above
The media do the same on floods, forest fires, hurricanes, etc
As @AlexEpstein notes, humans took a dangerous climate and made it safe, we didn’t take a safe climate and make it dangerous
The idea that the climate was safe before humans caused climate change is an infantile fantasy & the Edenic foundation to a false, apocalyptic narrative