Posted on 11/17/2023 7:16:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
…Here’s the challenge: if we try to simply air condition our way to safety, we will create a health equity divide between those who can afford cooling and those who can’t. We will also worsen climate change by dramatically increasing energy use that leads to fossil fuel emissions—at least until we have a carbon-free grid to run those humming air conditioners. Then there is the waste heat that air conditioners emit into cities—they protect those inside while making it hotter and more dangerous outside.
Make no mistake, heat resilient homes and air conditioning must be part of the solution. But we urgently need a complementary form of cooling that can be widely and equitably deployed, and one that doesn’t increase greenhouse gas emissions. The answer is right in front of us: trees.
This urgently needed potential for carbon negative cooling is why cities across America and around the world are finally investing in urban tree cover.
This world-leading mobilization of urban trees to save lives and our climate should be a source of hope. Further, because this work will bring the benefits of tree equity to so many people and places across America, it can help foster the broader societal buy-in we need to propel the climate movement to ultimate success.
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“Tree equity”??
Ridiculous.
I remember the magnificent urban elm tree canopies of the 1960s.
Live oaks could provide wonderful canopies if electricity was delivered by underground lines in Florida.
I have nothing against trees and live in the middle of a bunch of fir trees that are over 100 feet tall. They do knock the power out every time we have a windstorm around here. But I don’t hold that against them. This is just another feel good solution to a “crisis” that doesn’t actually exist.
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
Trees are nice. But they actually raise humidity in their shade footprint, forcing people to run the AC.
Trees are definitely the solution in dry climates.
The Northern Hemisphere has way more trees than it did 100 years ago. Do you know why?
We quit burning trees and started burning coal.
God, what sin have we cimmitted to deserve these morons?
My Florida neighborhood has lost over half its large trees in the past 20 years.
>> “Tree equity”??
Yep, more Gramscian cultural marxist madness.
EVERYthing — absolutely EVERYTHING — is all about the oppressor-oppressed struggle. EVERYTHING.
“Tree equity” sounds like a new legal-ease phrase so the Dims can use the power of government to tell you how many trees you can or can’t have.
#NeedsBarfAlert!
That was before we imported Dutch elm disease, from Asia.
We used to have Chestnut trees, before we imported the chestnut blight, from Asia.
We had ash trees before we imported the emerald ash borer, from Asia.
Hey, do you think there is a pattern here?
I want out.
Not gonna play.
LOL. I live in a VERY hot part of town - and am amazed that so many people on my block do not have shade trees in their front yard - I have four and my next door neighbor has a massive shade tree - those trees take at least 10 degrees off of our homes during the heat of the summer and fall.
ALL of the government plans for tree planting and re-paving of the streets to reflective paving has been designated to go to “underserved” areas, of course, including subsidized utilities - while WE pay the bill for it all.
Inequality can’t be cured by the foolish search for equity
What a bunch of liberal retardation on display.
Never knew that
Words of wisdom from The Professor (RIP).
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