About one-eighth of the number of housing units the entire state of California normally produces in a whole year burned to the ground this week.
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Meanwhile, Palo Alto is opposing its first major affordable housing development in like 10 years with a grand total of 59 units because of TRAFFIC (while people are dying across the state and living in RVs nearby on El Camino Real). peninsulapress.com/2018/11/02/pal
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Every time a boomer homeowner sitting on $1M+ in equity while paying property tax rates from decades ago says millennials can live elsewhere, they’re effectively pushing them to states where the built environment will 2-3X their carbon emissions per capita eia.gov/environment/em
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Are these domestic/consumer energy use or do they also include emissions from heavy industry and fossil fuel mining activities? I’m a bit suspicious.
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I think they contain energy creation. Would love a more accurate ratio.
"The avg carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, pop.-dense urban cities is about 50% below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to 2X average."
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Density drives down carbon along multiple vectors (transportation, heating/AC, rent > own, utilizations rates of everything) at once. Otoh I suspect long-distance air travel per capita is far higher in the coastal states. And industry should be amortized nationally to be fair.

