“If you invite more cars, you get more cars. If you make more streets better for cars you get more traffic...If you invite people to walk more and use public spaces more, you get more life in the city. You get what you invite.” - Jan Gehl
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The bottom line, if you haven't already worked it out is......
Climate policy is air-quality policy.
AND if we get this right, we protect our planet, our health AND our future.
That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
Hurricane Melissa is the backdrop to the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement as the UN Secretary General warns that the world has failed to constrain global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. As the old tune of jobs and growth continues, we see what's at stake ingamills.substack.com/p/collateral...
Deprivation isn’t only a rural or coastal issue. Some larger cities - Manchester, Birmingham & London - see high levels of deprivation too - driven by high housing costs and high levels of insecure work and low pay.
Wherever you live should not affect your chances in life -but this is not the case.
🚨New deprivation data reveals continual deep regional divides across many areas in England.
High levels of deprivation are concentrated in many ex-industrial northern and midlands towns and coastal areas, where manufacturing and tourism industries have been lost.
Executives at BMW want to meet the chancellor about the car loans scandal.
Car companies resent paying compensation.
Auto companies lied about diesel emissions, resent paying victims.
Simple advice to capitalists - don't lie and cheat to boost profits, exec pay, dividends.
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It’s been more than a decade since we learned that car manufacturers like Mercedes and VW were using ‘cheat devices’.
In that time thousands have died prematurely in the UK alone. So why no action? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/sixteen-th...
The foundational assumption of science is that if we do the research others will pay attention to it and act. Otherwise what's the point, right?
Maybe just producing the information isn't enough any more
V interesting paper! Though US focused, the insights are relevant to the UK, too. We've seen misinformation on environmental measures such as ULEZ, LTNs, 20mph. Strategic communications and sustained public engagement will be necessary to win public support for implementing specific solutions.
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In this new piece I argue that the climate crisis cannot be solved within capitalism. I think we need to take this fact seriously and consider what it means for the climate movement.
Link in the reply.
Great to see this support for councils to improve access to public and active transport for local people👏🚌🚦🚲
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This term has seen slowdown in delivery of those, LTNs, anything bold or high quality. Instead, we've fallen back to TfL Buses apparently derailing, delaying, weakening everything & even progressive boroughs struggling to deliver much more than School Streets & hangars. Be better @london.gov.uk
The report calls for the Mayor to set out a public engagement strategy for net zero, and innovate further public engagement approaches. You can read the report here:
Having delivered ULEZ, @london.gov.uk now brings us a road tunnel, in 2025, which will further sink some of the poorest pockets of London, adding to the structural problems these marginalised communities already face. My musings over on Substack ingamills.substack.com/p/londons-si...
Global banks helping to coordinate a suicide pact for humanity
Removing capacity for motor traffic has cut traffic in West London.
Now we can see (again) what increasing capacity will do in East and South East London, when Silvertown opens next month.
