Posted on 02/28/2021 12:49:02 AM PST by blueplum
As a poster child for the climate emergency, Miami Beach has become a world leader in mitigating the effects of sea-level rise. Now the subtropical Florida city is cutting back on its famous swaying palm trees as it seeks shadier alternatives to preserve its environment and try to keep residents and visitors cool.
Officials have embarked on a 30-year plan to reduce the percentage of palm trees in the city to only one quarter of its total canopy by 2050...
...“Palms, while an iconic part of Miami Beach’s landscape, have moved from being an accent plant to a major component of the city’s urban forest. General guidelines for species diversity state that no family should make up more than 30% of a city’s tree population.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
And if Miami had never been built and palm trees would have been allowed to freely grow, then what? Left is utterly retarded, insane, and making flat-earthers look more and more sane with each passing day.
I guess what happened in TX escaped their attention.
It’s interesting how enviroweenies look at their own locale and extrapolate for the whole planet and take action based on that.
Like the few trees a city can plant is going to make a difference.
Virtue signaling at its finest.
I fail to comprehend what /how palm trees affect the climate?
Make it cooler? warmer? Stop raindrops?
Will there be a shortage of coconuts?
Where will the monkeys hide?
I demand that the Miami Beach City Council plant at least 10% Giant Redwoods!
To reflect the diversity of our nation...
Regards,
Giant Redwoods.
LOL
“ General guidelines for species diversity state that no family should make up more than 30% of a city’s tree population.”
Those palms are RACIST. They need more “diversity”.
I was of the understanding, scientifically speaking, that eliminating one’s “competition” and dominating other species was a biological imperative for flora and fauna.
SOLAR PANELS do more to cause adverse climate change than any other man made creation. The only reason we do not hear more about how destructive they are is because they make a lot of money for the select few.
Keep the trees - get rid of the solar panels.
Grow marijuana.
No matter...disease wiped them out except for a small patch near the Lake which remained disease free. Not to worry...some tree specialist killed them all.
Reminds me of an old Andy Griffith episode when a Hollywood producer wanted to make a movie in Mayberry. The mayor and the rest of the town wanted to celebrate by cutting down the old oak tree in the town square. In the end, the tree was saved, even though it never appeared again in any following episodes and seasons...
It happened in real life here in Townsend. Chevy Chase’s family vacation came to town and sprayed fake snow all over the village green for a winter scene shoot. The next summer all the trees on the green were dead.
It’s like they forgot to take hurricanes into consideration. Palm tree don’t fall on a home but oaks sure will. Dummies!
How long has glowbull warming been alleged by the communists to have been going on? And, based on that answer, just how is it that Miami, at an average of just 6 ft elevation, isn’t already completely underwater? Since glowbull warming has been going on for a long time, and it is not already underwater, why should anyone believe it will be underwater in another 100 years?
Movie wss “Funny Farm.”
I was briefly in Townshend, VT, during the filming of the winter scene.
The last time we visited they were trying to replant the trees
I wrote “was” w a s . . . but somehow (character set?) flubbed that to “wss”
That’s right, I wasn’t all that into it.
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