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SF Climate Strike -- Planting (week 6) [1]

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Date: 2023-06-21

STRIKE FOR THE PLANET

because right now is perilously close to too late.

It won’t be cheap, easy, politically feasible, pro-capitalist, or any of the rest of the nonsense we’ve let blind us so long to both the science and the screaming of the biosphere as it dies. But we have to do it, and we have to do it now. In the fight for the planet, life is losing.

So this week let’s talk about PLANTING.

San Francisco needs to actively fight sea level rise by drastically reducing both:

Short-lived pollutants such as soot, CH 4 , tropospheric O 3 , HFCs and

Long-lived pollutants such as CO 2 , N 2 O, and CFCs.

Some of this reduction in SF must be achieved by:

Eliminating all biomass burning

Outlawing wood fires

Stopping gas leaks

Eliminating all diesel engines and fossil fuel combusting motors

And some of this reduction can, and should, be quickly achieved by: Green roofs

Ubiquitous roadside planting

Rain gardens

Bioswales

Making SF a genuine urban forest

Parks of all sizes everywhere

City-scaled community gardens Drought-resistant landscaping

Building up bay and coastal plant habitats

This means we must: Make space for coastal species to move uphill as the waters rise

Update zoning and building codes and enforce them

Mandate, with jail and massive fines as teeth, strict green practices throughout SF Give up low-lying areas to parks, planted dunes, forest, and marsh

Actively plant and support aquatic natives such as kelp and tule

Bring more native plant species into all areas of SF (including downtown)

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