When it comes to the planetary crisis, the public good depends on protecting people from inaction by shattering barriers to action, speed is justice, and scale is inclusion.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-cannot-ac…
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-cannot-ac…
Most people are vastly more endangered by the worsening impacts of climate change, ecological collapse, systemic brittleness and societal instability than they are by the price tags of investments in action.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1466906556939706370
The poorer someone is, the younger, the more precarious their life, the worse these crisis impacts hurt them, and the more unfair they are.
Predatory delay is predatory precisely because it turns status quo profits into intergenerational injustice.
Predatory delay is predatory precisely because it turns status quo profits into intergenerational injustice.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1073320948030271488
Social inclusion won't happen in places facing a combination of legacies of inaction and bottleneck financial pressures, without fast change.
Massively, rapidly scaling new housing, infrastructure, jobs and civic systems is the precondition for inclusion.
Massively, rapidly scaling new housing, infrastructure, jobs and civic systems is the precondition for inclusion.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1138889527697608704
More on rapid-scaling-as-inclusion here, and in the follow-up I'm writing now.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedize-yo…
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/ruggedize-yo…
Some of the most immoral and destructive barriers to action we have are the piles of patchwork zoning plans, random building standards, "impact" fees and long "community" processes we pretend is urban planning in America.
At a moment when speed is everything, we delay anything.
At a moment when speed is everything, we delay anything.
Successful action demands a giant building boom.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1456025124151472131
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