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When information technology comes to conspicuous oil consumption and an underregulated greenhouse gas policy, Jerry Brown says he'due south really, really over information technology.
He is too totally over information technology with our driver culture—-and with people who don't go that there'south a problem with all the above.
To brand the indicate, he'south been filing lawsuits.
For instance, last spring he sued San Bernardino Canton to force that county'due south planners to include global-warming counter-measures as a role of the canton'due south growth blueprint (the General Plan). Some people claimed Brown was grandstanding. (Which he probably was, at least in part..) But in the end, SB settled and at present is 1 of the land's leaders on the effect.
This morning, Attorney General Brown, (who is also 2010-candidate-for-Governor Brown) is belongings an 11:30 a.m. press briefing at the Port of Long Beach to denote that he is slapping a lawsuit on the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from ships, aircraft, and construction and agronomical equipment.
"Ships, aircraft and industrial equipment burn huge quantities of fossil fuel and cause massive greenhouse gas pollution," growled Brown in his official statement. "Yet President Bush stalls with one bureaucratic dodge after another. Because Bush's Environmental Protection Agency continues to wantonly ignore its duty to regulate pollution, California is forced to seek judicial action."
Cool.
Not everyone has been pleased with the nature of Jerry's proactive responses to global warming.
A few weeks ago, Joel Kotkin, an author/pundit/think tank-ish type specializing in public policy and business trends, grumpily slammed Dark-brown in a Wall Street Periodical Op Ed accusing the AG of "waging war on the very communities his father helped make possible."
Kotkin even trotted out the quondam, extremely tired, pathetically-dog-eared Governor Moonbeam trope.
"[Brownish] sees suburban houses as inefficient users of free energy," snarked Kotkin. "He sees suburban commuters clogging the roads equally wasting precious fossil fuel. And, mostly, he sees wisdom in an intricately thought-out plan to hogtie residents to move to city centers or, at to the lowest degree, to high-density developments amassed nearly mass transit lines…"
A very irritated Brown fired dorsum in a alphabetic character that was published in yesterday'due south WSJ.
With gasoline at $four a gallon, the dollar plunging, and foreign oil producers taking trillions from hard pressed Americans, 1 would recollect that cut unsafe oil dependency was a no-brainer. Apparently not for Joel Kotkin, whose "Jerry Brown'south War on California Suburbs" complains about my efforts to ensure that California cities and counties comply with our start-in-the-nation free energy and greenhouse gas laws. Mr. Kotkin mischaracterizes my efforts equally a war on suburbs and paints an oddly cheerful picture of expressway living, including an exclamation that our highways are not clogged past long commutes. Mr. Kotkin's vision of unending sprawl is better suited to the 1950s, when gasoline was 20 cents per gallon and California had 11 million, not 37 million residents.
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No thoughtful person tin can actually question the fact that nosotros must grow smarter, with more efficient and less polluting transportation. Nor, in a fourth dimension of escalating food prices, can we afford to wantonly plow over irreplaceable farmland. That is why I make no apologies for promoting efficient building standards, renewable energy, and communities that work for people and businesses, not simply oil companies.
I talked with Jerry yesterday nearly the Kotkin piece and a few other issues. Hither's some of what he said:
WLA: Yous sure had a potent reaction to Joel Kotkin's column….
Edmund Chiliad. Chocolate-brown Jr.: Yeah. I idea Kotkin was a pretty progressive guy. But that was Neanderthalic. (pause) Is Neanderthalic a word?
WLA: If information technology isn't, I'm sure it should be.
EGB: I like it. Neanderthalic.
Anyway, my thing on greenhouse gasses is efficiency with building, efficiency with appliances, and the blueprint of community so it's on a more human scale.
What we accept now, in a lot of ways, is a system where we build "garages" for people xxx or 40 miles from job centers. And then people are required to make a 60 or fourscore mile commute every day. And you incentivize information technology because the state is inexpensive away from the chore centers. And the land is cheap because you kick the cows off information technology. Once you boot the cows off information technology, you put these lilliputian "garages" in in that location, these "storage centers," then nosotros pack them full of people. They don't have schools virtually them. They don't have stores near them. So to exit of that design of driving everywhere you lot need some evolutionary planning. And near metropolis planners agree with that.
WLA: Okay, but we've been encouraging people to motion to the suburbs for sixty-plus years. How practise you propose to make a change in that pattern?
EGB: Commencement we need better designed houses so they're not leaking free energy. And you crave that. And so we need housing and shopping and jobs in shut alignment. Nosotros tell [developers] you lot tin can't build 5000 houses ten miles from any store, unless you lot want to pay higher fees.
WLA: You really remember that'll make any kind of measureable dent?
EGB: Information technology's not easy. A lot of people can't afford to alive where they piece of work. So, this is extremely difficult. And each community is different. That's why we're holding workshops all over the state and talking to city planners. We're engaging in a dialogue and asking: How exercise we live together better? And how do we plan for that? We're trying to brand these changes in a very gentle, evolutionary mode. But we've got to brand the community more than complete, with schools, stores, and jobs. It's a more than of a man scale.
Look, nosotros're killing ourselves with oil imports, climatic change, pollution and and so many hours invested in inefficient travel.
How're yous going to build more freeways? Look at Santa Monica. What're you going to do? Double-deck the Santa Monica Thruway? We've already got a lot of freeways, and then that'south non the way.
We've got to do something.
Otherwise billions of dollars of our money will continue going to buy oil. And that'due south not expert. So we're starting the dialogue.
Source: https://witnessla.com/jerry-brown-talks-about-getting-off-greenhouse/
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