Posted on 04/13/2018 6:00:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A report to be released Friday by the University of Massachusetts points to the challenges the city and the region face in funding solutions to combat climate change, with local neighborhood projects expected to amount to $2.4 billion.
The report recommends a layered approach of federal, state, city, and private financing strategies, including:
■ A statewide carbon tax and an increase to the state gas tax that could support a climate resilience fund.
■ The possibility of a Boston climate resilience fee based on water and sewer bills, which could fund city general obligation bonds.
■ The creation of climate-focused District Resilience Improvement entities, modeled after Business Improvement Districts, which would capture revenue from those who would most benefit from resiliency actions.
■ The creation of a Climate Resilience Finance Implementation Working Group for the metro Boston region, to advance climate adaptation measures.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
“The creation of climate-focused District Resilience Improvement entities, modeled after Business Improvement Districts, which would capture revenue from those who would most benefit from resiliency actions.”
Argh!! Their use of Orwellian language is traumatizing. It really feels like “1984”.
looks like the report authors REALLY like the new buzzword, “resilience” for justifying unlimited taxation to fix a “problem” that doesn’t exist, and if it did exist, would be unfixable short of all of us moving back into caves and huddling in the dark cold, eating grubs and worms, fighting off wild animals with sticks, and with an average lifespan of 22 years (women, children, and people of color hurt the worst).
Fighting invisible monsters is super expensive!
Yes, they have to build that YUGE umbrella in the sky!
“opinion resilience” Good one! I like that. It’s sorely needed, isn’t it?
This is where conservatives and patriots in media are asleep at the wheel — in co-opting proggie newspeak and turning it against them, hard and fast and without mercy.
Rules for Radicals. We are the new radicals.
Had first daffodils blossom today. I suspect somebody else North of 41 degree latitude has me beat
“Had first daffodils blossom today. I suspect somebody else North of 41 degree latitude has me beat”
Higher atmospheric Co2 is undoubtedly aiding your daffodils.
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