[sustran] Re: U.S. Mayors Respond to Washington Leadership Vacuum on Climate Change

[Todd Edelman]

Eric Bruun wrote:
>
> As a Seattle native and one who has been following developments there
> closely, allow me to express
> my skepticism...
>
Wow, thanks for the insider story! I am going to forward what you said to
that Earth whatever organisation, they need to not believe the hype
(sometimes)!

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My secondary point was indeed that the source of whatever carbon emissions
you are removing is also very, very important AND the positive knock-on
effects of removing all those cars - or other things - can be quite
significant, or not such a big deal. And 168,000 (or whatever)
"carbon-free cars" present many of the same problems as 168,000 normal
ones. It would be interesting to see a compare-and-contrast on this--two
similar cities which took two entirely different strategies to reduce
carbon emissions, and WHAT ELSE happened differently in these places...

T

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