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Private homeownership interferes with fight against climate change, professor argues
thecollegefix.com ^ | 12/27/2019 | Staff

Posted on 12/29/2019 8:13:17 AM PST by rktman

‘Expansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing’

If you’ve heard that Green New Deal supporters want to increase government control over all facets of life more than they want to protect the environment, well, here’s more evidence of that.

An assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA argues in the far-left magazine The Nation that California is doomed as long as people keep owning homes.

“If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership,” says Kian Goh, who researches urban ecological design, “spatial politics” and social mobilization “in the context of climate change and global urbanization.”

Goh considers it “news” rather than fevered speculation that “we may only have a dozen years to contain global warming,” as shown by destructive California wildfires in recent months and “precautionary power shutoffs” by utility companies.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: climageddon; climalarkey; ganggreen
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(Did search, didn't pop up even using catch phrases.)Oh, 'associate' professor. Now had it been a tenured professor, I'd still ignore it. Yet another chunk of evidence that attaining a degree in "higher" edumacation does NOT automatically include salient thought processes. The prof should stop by my place so we can discuss its ideas. That should be fun. Or, is the prof just PO'd due to not being able to find affordable housing near UCLA.
1 posted on 12/29/2019 8:13:17 AM PST by rktman
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Come and take it, you communist maggot, but be sure your affairs are in order first.


2 posted on 12/29/2019 8:15:22 AM PST by tomkat
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If every Watermelon environmentalist comitted suicide the climate could be saved!


3 posted on 12/29/2019 8:16:31 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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After all, what’s not to crave about the sterile concrete Shangri-La’s of Soviet-style state housing?


4 posted on 12/29/2019 8:17:59 AM PST by Ancient Man
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Bet the prof would just love those Stalin era housing monstrosity projects.


5 posted on 12/29/2019 8:18:36 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Commie fruitcake probably figures concentration camps would be an improvement. Environment is more important than human beings.


6 posted on 12/29/2019 8:20:39 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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The professor is more than welcome to come live with me.

Frankly I’m getting tired of scrubbing toilets.


7 posted on 12/29/2019 8:20:56 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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I remember about 20 years ago reading an article in Time magazine (?) where an “environmental” activist admitted that their goal was to stop white people from moving to the suburbs to avoid having to live with blacks. That’s what the campaign against privately owned homes is also all about.


8 posted on 12/29/2019 8:21:52 AM PST by euram
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The smarties never consider the magnitude of the coercion they propose. It seems at some level the coercion seek would be worse then the “problem” they seek to remedy. Of course they don’t seek to fix anything. Power is the end goal.


9 posted on 12/29/2019 8:24:36 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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These people are a serious threat.

They desire power, and they do not care what they have to do to get it.

The person who wrote this reminds me of Pol Poi in Cambodia.

10 posted on 12/29/2019 8:25:52 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Well,, professor, seeing as I am on the side of Climate in this war of The Climate versus Communists, I think I’m going to keep my house.

Go Climate!


11 posted on 12/29/2019 8:37:01 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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Socialist Paradise for Watermelons!

Concrete block anthills to warehouse "the Masses" - the ultimate low impact housing for Commutard "environmentalists"

12 posted on 12/29/2019 8:39:30 AM PST by Regulator
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California is doomed as long as far-left moonbats like Kian Goh and illegal aliens are allowed to continue f—king up the state.


13 posted on 12/29/2019 8:40:37 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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‘Expansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing’

Well allrighty then. How dare I be an individual expanding on my exclusive right to own property....


14 posted on 12/29/2019 8:41:29 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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I do like that the outright communists are simply coming right out with their communism.

Makes them easier to identify.


15 posted on 12/29/2019 8:43:31 AM PST by Lazamataz (I cannot spare this man. I cannot spare President Trump. He fights.)
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If high density city life was better for the environment then it would be cheaper to live there. The cost of something is proportional to its energy consumption and pollution.


16 posted on 12/29/2019 8:50:41 AM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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Leftist queer foreigner....don’t like the US, don’t live and work here.


17 posted on 12/29/2019 8:52:49 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: marktwain

“These people are a serious threat.”

This will never happen. I have never met a woman who does not want a dream home.

Besides, Civil War II would happen long before the gov’t took away our homes because that would mean they took our guns.

I understand what you are saying though these greenies are gangerous


18 posted on 12/29/2019 8:53:17 AM PST by setter
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“You peons must all live in the city in govt housing”


19 posted on 12/29/2019 8:57:24 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Just another educated fool.

https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/kian-goh/

Some children never learn that it is better to be seen than heard.

This one is absolutely full of herself and should be ignored.


20 posted on 12/29/2019 8:58:09 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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