Toronto urban environmentalist. 20+ years in climate activism. From Etobicoke. ADHDer. Fancy degrees from McGill and Yale. Posts my own.
Energy and transit should be free and plentiful. Cars should be an option, not a necessity.
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How-Sen Chong
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The main difference between car traffic today and car traffic with automated robotaxis is this:
Instead of roads being jammed by cars with just 1-2 people in them, roads will be jammed by cars with just 0-1 people in them.
This space could have been used by four people to park their empty cars.
In case you think progress is impossible, here’s the oldest church in Vienna (first built in 740 AD) with a Progress Pride banner unfurled.
Happy Pride Month, all!
Yes! We need a maximum indoor Heat bylaw. So many buildings in Toronto were constructed for a climate that we no longer have.
We need to protect people as we also cut the global warming pollution that causes climate change in the first place.
When I see this kind of thing happening, I think about beverage and soft drink corporations who consider water as competition rather than a basic right that should be available to all human beings.
And yes, you can have streets where pedestrians walk and streetcars run with no private automobiles.
Here’s one such thing street in Amsterdam.
The demand in Toronto for public space where pedestrians can exist without cars whizzing by them is reaching a fever pitch and needs to be seriously addressed.
For years, opponents to climate action and climate denialists argued that Canada represents a small fraction of the world’s population.
The fact that *ALL FIVE* of Canada’s big banks are within the top sixteen fossil fuel financiers in the world throws that argument out the window.
New report shows that Canadian banks are among the top financiers of fossil fuel and fossil fuel infrastructure in the world, with RBC at #7 in the world.
Full report here: www.bankingonclimatechaos.org
Human societies have had public streets that prioritized commerce, public gathering, and public transportation for literally thousands of years before the invention of the private automobile.
Cars have their place. But we need to stop prioritizing cars on *every* street.
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
