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Lucy Weir<p>I'm going to attempt to make the move again. I wonder if anyone here thinks there's more activity on Bluesky? This is a quiet place compared with Twitter! What I'd love is to have a level of debate and discussion on <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ecologicalemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecologicalemergency</span></a> and related topics <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/polarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polarisation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/fragmentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fragmentation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> and how to <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/mitigate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mitigate</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>The Sierra Club lawsuit is asking that Caltrans properly analyze project impacts as specified in SB 743 in its environmental analysis and to fully <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/mitigate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mitigate</span></a> for those <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/impacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>impacts</span></a> (i.e GHG emissions) as required under <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SB32" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SB32</span></a>- using the newer dynamic UCD Induced Traffic calculator and mitigating these additional <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VMTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VMTs</span></a> through subsidies to public transit agencies and traffic management strategies instead of the wildly optimistic and woefully underfunded assumptions.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SharedMicroEMobilityNetworksDefuseCarbonBombs</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UnGlamourousSolutionsAreClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UnGlamourousSolutionsAreClimateJustice</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DeterioratingCarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeterioratingCarbonSinks</span></a>: Building sea walls to guard against rising ocean levels, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> to handle extreme <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/precipitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>precipitation</span></a> events, or adding <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/airconditioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>airconditioning</span></a> to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/mitigate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mitigate</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>heatwaves</span></a> all cost a lot of money. <br />Who’s going to foot the bill for this? </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/KeepItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KeepItInTheGround</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/conservativesarenazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservativesarenazis</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EndOfModernity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndOfModernity</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CEQA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CEQA</span></a> seeks to both (1) <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/inform" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>inform</span></a> the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>public</span></a> and governmental <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/decisionmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decisionmakers</span></a> about <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/tradeoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tradeoffs</span></a> in approving a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/project" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>project</span></a> with environmental effects, and (2) prevent <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/significant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>significant</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/avoidable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>avoidable</span></a> damage to the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environment</span></a>. Vulnerable critters like the Temblor legless <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lizard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lizard</span></a> depend on CEQA to require agencies to fully consider and (where <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/feasible" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>feasible</span></a>) <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/mitigate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mitigate</span></a> harmful environmental impacts. </p><p><a href="https://legal-planet.org/2023/07/14/ucla-clinic-submits-amicus-brief-in-kern-oil-ordinance-case/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">legal-planet.org/2023/07/14/uc</span><span class="invisible">la-clinic-submits-amicus-brief-in-kern-oil-ordinance-case/</span></a></p>