Posted on 02/14/2010 7:12:18 PM PST by Commonsensecommonman
What would life in an American city look like if it required its residents go green to combat climate change? Would it be all trees and gardens and bicycles, or would it look more like oppression under Big Brother's green thumb?
Cambridge, Mass., home of Harvard University, may be giving the country a glimpse of the answer.
Last May, the city officially adopted an order recognizing that there is a climate emergency; but after nearly a year, officials discovered the city's carbon footprint was nonetheless growing worse.
Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, therefore, brought together nearly 100 activists and concerned citizens under the endorsement of the city council to convene a "Climate Congress" to make recommendations on how Cambridge can meet its green goals.
The official report of the Climate Congress provides a sneak peek at how life in Cambridge may be about to dramatically change.
"This emergency is created by the growth of local greenhouse gas emissions despite the urgent warnings of climate scientists that substantial reductions are needed in order to reduce the risk of disastrous changes to our climate," the Climate Congress reports. "This proposal is made in the belief that an effective local response is, if anything, made more urgent by so far inadequate global agreements and federal policies for emissions reductions. It is made in the belief that our City should lead by example."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
every one of them should postnatally abort and self-compost, to help teh planet.
I’m surprised that Berserkeley wasn’t the first to pull this crap. Then again, the only difference between the two cities is the location of the ocean.
especially restaurants being forced to Meatless Mondays
holy cow!
In Spokane they’ve banned phosphate dish soap. You have to buy this green stuff that doesn’t clean or remove grease so people drive across to Idaho and buy Dove or whatever there ... I wonder when they’ll start roving police inspection stops looking for contraband soap ....
They should ban showers, then, no one would want to come to their stinking town.
This thread is meaningless without pictures.
Denise Simmons, the first openly lesbian African-American mayor of an American city. (Wiki)
Wiki also notes that her predecessor was the first openly gay African-American mayor of an American city.
Learn something new every day.
I know Harvard has deteriorated greatly, but it still has superb physics, math, an engineering departments. Do those folks know how silly their city looks?
Oh well, all the better for those states willing to take all the exiting tech staffs.
Liberals are mentally deranged psychotics and deserve each other. What a bunch of stupid bastards!
East Berlin. That's what it would look like. All those tenured Harvard professors ready to move into their 600 square foot flats?
Why does that guy’s coat say “homo” spelled backward?
IN Russia, they cure weak liberalism with strong totalitarian Communism!
Someday, should this world be blessed with continued existence and also retain some sanity, future generations will look back at Cambridge, Mass. in 2010 and laugh, laugh, laugh at how these primitive idiots thought that they could control the natural warming and cooling cycles of the Earth.
And also because they voted overwhelmingly for Martha Coakley.
Cambridge is full of really smart Nazis.
I needed a good laugh this evening. I see some very promising ideas.
- Banning meat from meals provided to the City Council and limiting the amounts of dairy served. I would go much further. I would force the city council to have a prolonged hunger strike.
- Providing citizens and businesses with 100-percent renewable energy within 20 years. After 20 years, Cambridge can remove themselves from the grid. They can experience full reliance on the wind and solar gods.
- Contests between neighborhoods for climate prizes. The neighborhood that boasts hottest indoor temperatures in the summer and coldest indoor tempearatures in the winter is the winner. The winner will receive no heat when temperaturs are above freezing. Air conditioning and fans will be fully offlimits in the summer.
They should raise taxes on Harvard to pay for it.
Perhaps to hint at his being their polar opposite?
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