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This is the letter for week 189 of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of San Francisco City Hall, beginning early March 2019. For more context, see this story. For an annotated table of contents of the topics for all the strike letters, see this story. Meanwhile…
STRIKE FOR THE PLANET
It takes one step, then another, then another
That’s why this week’s topic is: What To Prepare
San Francisco is not ready
We’ve got little in place and less ready to respond to the climate disasters already on our doorstep.
You know SF is not ready
You have 3 years and 33 weeks of information delivered to you on a weekly basis detailing just how unready SF is.
You also know what you need to do to get SF ready
Yet again, for the 189th time, SF needs to have independent, sustainable sources of
energy and water
in order to survive. With those two things in place, SF’s survival is possible. Without those, the city dies and we all leave or die with it.
These two bedrock needs make base level survival an option. They are a start and a start only. And yet you haven’t even started on them.
Let’s get specific on water and energy
How is SF to achieve independent and sustainable water and power?
Water is hard, but immediately instituting universal blackwater and gray water reuse and recycling, enforcing and expanding permeable surfaces, planting native shade and greenery, and supporting the hydro ecosystem of the bay area and of CA would get us quite a bit closer to independence and reduce our reliance on unsustainable and destructive imported water and its infrastructure.
Energy is so much simpler. SF needs to finally, at last, get control of our grid, then diversify and localize energy production, assist people in getting off energy sources that produce CO2, and eliminate or repurpose CO2 producing energy infrastructure, including roads. While the Bay Area may not be rich in freshwater resources, we are awash in clean energy sources that we have done little to tap.
Want more details?
See strike letters 1, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 46, 52, 72, 82, 95, 103, 107, 108, 109, 110, 113, 119, 128, 129, 130, 140, 141, 146, 150, 157, 164, 165, and 166 for water. See strike letters 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 61, 62, 68, 76, 81, 94, 103, 139, 151, 168, and 169 for energy.
This isn’t rocket science
The only explanation for your lack of action is political and moral cowardice.
