Fine, try! There's lots of things that can be done to help. Meeting and setting goals are not helpful. That's just the history. Even more unhelpful is pretending like COP even matters.

You're pushing on a rope. Demand reduction also depends on economics. And other than a little marginal influence around the edges, no government is rich enough and/or powerful enough to change consumption patterns much.

Climate policy-making doesn't matter and never has. Solar, wind and batteries have to win out on the basis of economics, or they won't win at all.

Why is an organization with 'urbanism' in its name promoting suburban sprawl???

It doesn't have a walkable neighborhood.

It really needs to be a lot more than 99%.

It's not the cost, it's the price. They charge more because the market will pay it, not because it costs more to deliver it.

The main take away from these charts is that price isn't very correlated with source, regardless.

Supply restrictions aren't completely futile, it's just that they are usually very politically expensive relative to demand reduction. Telling the local resource extraction industry that they're out of business is hard to do.

How is that 'high-rise'?

What they should do is require that all dangerous drivers (those with speeding tickets or other moving violations, or at fault for accidents) should be required to have a big sign on the top of their car that identifies them as dangerous drivers.

Why, why ,why is the US so bad at building rail??

I'm no fan of nukes, but calling her a 'moron' over the issue seems extreme.

Solar and wind are paying off!!!

I think the main point of two exits isn't about how fast people can get out, it's about trying to ensure that if one exit is blocked by fire, you can go the opposite way.

It's interesting how almost all of these CLT buildings are subsidized housing. The regular commercial market rate buildings tend to be concrete.

Mass timber is a hell of a lot more fire resistant than wood frame construction. But I suspect that it'll be a passing trend. Not because of fire danger, but just because they'll proved to not age well, and it'll never be as economic as standard concrete construction.

Now the US!

All apartment buildings in Spain are single stair. But none of them are built of wood as well.

Shit like this are why I left the Sierra Club years ago.

Every time I go back to the states from my home in Spain I'm always struck by how torn up the pavement is, and how impoverished looking the paving materials and street furniture are. I know not to expect anything good from US public transit.

I'm all for bringing a hammer down on drunk drivers, but I think it kinda ignores the facts that all driving is inherently dangerous and the real problem is that we've built a country that basically forces people to drive. It'd be easier to be strict about it if there were other options.

Tire dust is a significantly larger source of particulate pollution than tailpipes, and it's packed full of very harmful chemicals. EVs are only marginally better than ICEs in terms of local air pollution, but they are much better in terms of greenhouse gas. The dirty snow it all particulate.

There's a superilla centered at Zamora and Almogavers. Girona is superilla too.

You should look up the data on tire dust. It's a much bigger part of the picture than people realize, especially in terms of particulate in urban settings.

That map has pins in places that aren't really superillas, and is missing places that are.

More EVs really is not the solution. A lot of those toxic chemicals and particulate come off the tires.

This will be a disaster for people who want safer roads. Half measures implemented temporarily will have very poor results, which will just end up giving support for doing nothing.

Crazy conspiracy mongering isn't limited to one party, it seems.

Not to mention: great streets for walking and biking, great architecture, and traffic/noise/air pollution are have been going down for years. I love it here!