Thread by @lexi_whalen

A thread because I can't keep up with all the agendas, minutes, live streams and municipal machinations. If you're sitting in council chambers in Ontario, you need to DO BETTER! If your discussions and decisions sound anything like 10, 5, or even 2 years ago, you must stop now!

Everything you decide on today needs to be radically different than ever before. You need to stop taking new land and putting it under concrete. You need to make space for more people in places where stuff is easy to get to so they can walk. You need to stop pillaging the future!

The world is on fire. Everything left that's natural needs to be put into service to fight climate change NOW. Fields, meadows, wetlands, forests, we need all of them! If you're thinking about a new highway, a new airport, a new warehouse, a new subdivision on virgin land, STOP!

If you're saying: 'not fair to make mature areas change', or 'can't (won't) enact policy that affects personal freedom', or 'need to find a balanced approach', you are saying 'we aren't going to let others in'; perpetuating a system that benefits a few, versus the health of many.

And when you resist making space for others in the vibrant urban centres of our communities, you are simultaneously locking in escalating GHG emissions for decades more. Land-use policies that curb sprawl are the **best value for money tool** in the toolkit to lower emissions.

And if you don't believe me...listen to the alarm bells ringing in the global south. When does the global north clue in that every single day we drive a nail into the coffin of those on the front lines of the #ClimateCrisis when we maintain the status quo?

This is resonating with a few people so come join the fight!
In #York go to @StopSprawlYR.
In #Durham go to @NoSprawlDurham.
In #Peel, go to @StopSprawlPeel.
Highways? @STOPHWY413 @stopbwgbypass
Clean water? @RescueLakeSimc1 @onheadwaters
Ag action? @FarmersClimate
#OnPoli