Lane County climate plan
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Subject: Re: Take Lane County's survey on their climate action plan!
Date: 2020-09-11 12:59
From: Mark Robinowitz <mark@oilempire.us>
To: ROBERTS Samantha P <SRoberts@eugene-or.gov>
Cc: NYSTROM Mark D <Mark.NYSTROM@lanecountyor.gov>
On 2020-09-11 12:46, ROBERTS Samantha P wrote:
To our Eugene Sustainability Community,
Because we are all in this together, we wanted to let you know about an ongoing opportunity to share your thoughts on Lane County's approach to climate action.
Lane County is creating a Climate Action Plan (CAP) to better understand how the County and its residents can help prepare for and address climate change. They are at the beginning of this process and want feedback from county residents that will shape how they create this plan.
Please take their 5-minute survey to tell them:
* How you want to participate in the process and provide feedback on the plan
* What your priorities are for the types of actions that they can include in the planhttps://survey.participate.online/s3/lane-county-cap
The survey will be available until September 30. You can learn more
about this process on the County's website.
https://lanecounty.org/government/county_departments/public_works/climateplan
Best,
Samantha Roberts
Climate Policy Analyst AIC
Sustainability, City Manager's Office
City of Eugene
Mark Robinowitz comments on the
Lane County Carbon Reduction Action Plan (CRAP)
September 11, 20201. Recognize limits to growth (heresy, I know).
2. Recognize that polluting fossil fuels make large scale firefighting and medicine possible. My kilowatt solar array has made virtually zero watt hours this week due to the extreme smoke levels.
3. Cancel plans for massive widening of Beltline highway across the Willamette river. I realize "climate action" is mostly wishful thinking and greenwashing, but this is a practical step the County could do if it ever gets serious. Given that the Sustain-a-bull Commission refused to recommend this "concrete" action it seems likely that only fiscal shortages will prevent this project. The laws that prevented the West Eugene Porkway don't apply here.
3. As fossil fuels deplete we are going to enter a permanent energy crisis that is not mitigatible with solar panels. We are totally unprepared for this, even psychologically.
4. The County's continued support for clearcutting has made their happy talk about climate action irrelevant. How much of the Holiday Farm fire has burned through tree farm plantations? County code admits that tree farms are more flammable than older forest. I will be surprised if this plan admits this and calls for selective forestry instead of deforestation.
Carbon Reduction Action Plan would have a nicer acronym.
Meanwhile, the Alaska Pipeline continues to decline toward low flow shutdown. Every motor in the county is dependent on this flow and there is no Plan B.
www.peakchoice.org/peak-alaska-pipeline.html
Fracking postponed rationing. Damned if we drill, because of pollution. Damned if we don't because fossil energy enables the industrial way of life.
www.peakchoice.org/peak-frack.html
Mark Robinowitz