NY exhibit imagines utopian, green cities in 2030

Associated Press ^ | 6/24/2010 | KAREN MATTHEWS

[domeika]

I'd like to know why leftists always want to change everything to meet their approval. If they are so right, why don't they pick an empty spot in say, Africa, and then build their eco-friendly dream metropolis there just to show us all how it's done? Call it "World Environmental Earth Network International Experiment". We'll check back on them in a year or so and see how many of the "W.E.E.N.I.E"ese are still alive.

[Nepeta]

Because I would really want to ride my bike to work in January.

Won't happen. You have to walk.

[MeSpikeLibs]

Christmas won’t be illegal, they will call it the season of Giving.

[Reeses]

Leftists only make sense when you uncloak their real motivation: envy. Leftists always disguise their true motivation because envy is not socially acceptable. They envy their neighbors newer and more expensive cars. Envy is not about having what others have but denying others what they have. Many leftists could afford a newer more expensive car than their neighbors, but instead they prefer to fight to take away their neighbors cars. But their dream of banning the automobile will not bring them happiness. Freed of car payments, richer neighbors will just sink their money into incredibly expensive bicycles that will infuriate leftists even more.

Humans did not evolve to live in ant hills. Living in close proximity to so many others with more wealth and status causes intense feelings of envy. It's why city dwellers are leftists, and country dwellers couldn't give a damn about their neighbors new car sitting a mile away.

[Oldpuppymax]

Remind me again of how many black/Mexican gangs they have in Jakarta!

[PATRIOT1876]

Smells like dystopia to me.

“An elevated highway in Guangzhou, China, is transformed into a pedestrian promenade, and rooftops are linked by raised walkways and bikeways.”

Everyone who paid extra for a penthouse will regret it when the joggers come along at 5am. One wonders how many people will be pushed off the walkways by gang members and playful children “wilding.”

“In Jakarta, Indonesia, traditional bike taxis called becaks are re-engineered to be lighter and easier to steer”

Oh yes, the NYC cab drivers will LOVE to pedal two people around on a bike for 10 hours a day compared to driving a car. Don’t worry about the fact that it’s hard to steer a bike with two or three people on it in the snow (probably not much of a problem in Jakarta).

“”We're essentially trying to send the message that if cities don't move in this direction we're going to be faced with cataclysmic climate change, because in the developing world the use of private automobiles is escalating at double-digit rates,” Hook said.”

“Climate change” Boo Hoo!
The Global Warmongers are fooling fewer and fewer people on the Climate Change/Globull Warming/GIWP issue since Climategate and the fact that 4500 out of 6000 temp gathering stations were closed because their data didn’t show warming.
The hockeystick has been shown to be false, the fact that is has been warmer many, many times during the Earth’s history (including about 1000 years ago and the 1930’s)

“what we've done is we've sort of reimagined it as a kind of new town”

We can sort of imagine all kinds of things in Ted Kaczynski’s old shack in Montana. We can imagine a NYC like the Emerald City with munchkins riding on flying dinosaurs, but you have to be a little more realistic. Hook loses all credibility when he admits (and is proud of) that he STILL wears the tinfoil hat of climate change belief.

[PATRIOT1876]

Leftists only make sense when you uncloak their real motivation: envy. Leftists always disguise their true motivation because envy is not socially acceptable. They envy their neighbors newer and more expensive cars. Envy is not about having what others have but denying others what they have. Many leftists could afford a newer more expensive car than their neighbors, but instead they prefer to fight to take away their neighbors cars. But their dream of banning the automobile will not bring them happiness. Freed of car payments, richer neighbors will just sink their money into incredibly expensive bicycles that will infuriate leftists even more.

When I was a kid something about the lyrics from this hippie era song struck me as wrong:

"Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'Til there are no rich no more"

Doesn't it seem that the goal should be to eliminate poverty, or to have the poor fed instead of making sure the rich are eliminated?

Also, is there something more sinister going on here? Do they mean that they want to eliminate rich people entirely in a Marxist Che/PolPot/Ceausescu/Pelosi/Healthcare Bill/Stalinist way, or just to take away all their wealth so that we are all in the third world?

"Tell me where is sanity?"

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Big beehives full of complacent drones! ***

Reminds me of the last scenes in the movie MISSION TO MOSCOW in which people are streaming into a shining city on the hill, similar to Dorthy going to OZ without the dancing.

[Rappini]

The good news is that I’ll be getting used to some dirt by then.

[Reeses]

Also, is there something more sinister going on here?

Leftism is built on a foundation of evil so yes, it's as sinister as can be under the shiny hood painted red, green, or recently hijacked "conservative true blue". The poor and hungry are just human shields the left uses to take your stuff. Most poor people in America are clinically obese, own multiple cells phones, cable TVs, cars, computers, big screen TVs, have free healthcare, high-speed internet, on and on. The left is now working to slim down the poor because they are losing their effectiveness as props.

Envy is the root cause of war, murder, stealing, and voting Democrat.

[GraceG]

How are they planning about moving all of the supplies one needs to keep a megalopolis like Manhattan going?

Unicorn Coaches pulling trailers stuffed with stuff?

Or are they thinking of using effete bike messengers carrying infinite bags of holding?