― Thomas Sowell
I received this quote the other day, and it illuminates most everything.
You’re right... I remember that quote. Sowell is the bomb!!
BTW-What does it matter what your house is made of, if you are living on a fault line?
Concrete block construction cracks and crumbles in earthquakes!
Your Sowell quote is absolutely apropos here!
The costs of reconstruction after an earthquake will be greatly increased. Stick houses stand up to quakes much better than concrete ones do
When you put six housing units on space meant for one one must adjust.
More costly, yes, but anyone with half of mine can see that a brick or concrete building is less of a fire hazard than a wood constructed one. The bigger long-term challenges that we’re not going to cut food sources for termites. Where are the environmentalists to protect the termites?
[[the motion has been heavily promoted by special interests in the concrete industry]]
Is concrete business still run by mob?
Wouldn’t concrete construction require more mining of non-renewables, whereas you can always grow more trees.
To make things easier for the Los Angles city council, someone should make a list of everything that is sensible. Then Los Angeles can ban all those things.
It would save everyone involved a lot of time.
FBJ
In their passion to destroy the middle class, the left will make the poor poorer. And liberals see the destitute as their base, so the more the better.
In the Des Moines IA close to me, something with similar restrictions and no benefits.
There are 4 local “historical districts “.
Any renovations to homes require approval of the historical board.
Basically no vinyl windows , only expensive wood siding , etc.
The boards are not elected, and they have final say on what homeowners can do to their homes.
And here’s how you know that leftists are morons and retarded.
Concrete (according to leftist propaganda) does far FAR more harm to contribute to global warming because it has a higher carbon factor. But now they want all houses to be built with it in California.
Why?
Because, like, we have to stop houses made from wood from burning in forest fires.
What causes forest fires?
Lightning strikes or out of control camp fires (or *cough* intentional arson by antifa *cough*) burn through dry forests - especially dense ones.
Why are they so dense?
Because we PROTECT the forests and let them grow organically and without human interference because we are GREEN!
So... wouldn’t it make more sense to cut trees down to make firebreaks in the forests and manage density to cut down on forest fires (which destroy WHOLE FORESTS) and then use THAT wood for home construction? Economic. Efficient and also GREEN - because it both saves the forests and will stop concrete housing which is more environmentally damaging.
“Because shut up you white fascist!”
Concrete structure supported by Cinese steel. What can go wrong?
Oddly, concrete burns better than you’d imagine and the right pressure-treated lumber burns far less easily than you’d imagine. There’s a big movement to use lumber in the sort of construction long dominated by concrete and rebar
Good. Maybe lumber prices will come down in NC.
Pretty sure l the concrete will come from china. Do they even make cement in California anymore?
Mud huts don’t burn, well, not well anyway... unless the cow dung pile gets lit too.
Insane has many names..
‘California DemocRats’ is but one of them.