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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 4250031" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/opinion/california-fires.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>It’s the End of California as We Know It</strong></span></a></p><p></p><p>"...If we redesigned our cities for the modern world, they’d be taller and less stretched out into the fire-prone far reaches — what scientists call <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314" target="_blank">the wildland-urban interface</a>. Housing would be affordable because there’d be more of it. You’d be able to get around more cheaply because we’d ditch cars and turn to buses and trains and other ways we know how to move around a lot of people at high speeds, for low prices. It wouldn’t be the end of the California dream, but a reconceptualization — not as many endless blocks of backyards and swimming pools, but perhaps a new kind of more livable, more accessible life for all.</p><p></p><p>But who wants to do all this? Not the people of this state. Sure, we’ll ban plastic bags and try to increase gas-mileage standards (until <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/climate/trump-california-emissions-waiver.html?module=inline" target="_blank">the federal government tries to stops us</a>, which of course it can, because our 40 million people get the same voting power in the Senate as Wyoming’s 600,000)..."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 4250031, member: 18225"] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/opinion/california-fires.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage'][SIZE=4][B]It’s the End of California as We Know It[/B][/SIZE][/URL] "...If we redesigned our cities for the modern world, they’d be taller and less stretched out into the fire-prone far reaches — what scientists call [URL='https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3314']the wildland-urban interface[/URL]. Housing would be affordable because there’d be more of it. You’d be able to get around more cheaply because we’d ditch cars and turn to buses and trains and other ways we know how to move around a lot of people at high speeds, for low prices. It wouldn’t be the end of the California dream, but a reconceptualization — not as many endless blocks of backyards and swimming pools, but perhaps a new kind of more livable, more accessible life for all. But who wants to do all this? Not the people of this state. Sure, we’ll ban plastic bags and try to increase gas-mileage standards (until [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/climate/trump-california-emissions-waiver.html?module=inline']the federal government tries to stops us[/URL], which of course it can, because our 40 million people get the same voting power in the Senate as Wyoming’s 600,000)..." [/QUOTE]
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