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NYC mayor has gone next level stupid. Implement Green New Deal. Ban skyscrapers

Blue Sky Country

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    New York City has won the WTF jackpot:

    According to mayor Bill de Blasio, "only the Green New Deal can save us from climate change". His solution: Ban the construction of any new glass and steel skyscrapers. All existing ones must be completely retrofitted or the owners will face crushing fines.

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    If the Big Apple is to become the Green Apple, it will have to ban the steel and glass towers that form its signature skyline, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

    De Blasio, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” said that city’s most iconic structures – the tall skyscrapers seen from miles away – are the “biggest source of emissions” in New York City. The drastic change, and a switch to only renewable energy within five years, are necessary for Gotham to embrace the Green New Deal, de Blasio said.

    “We are putting clear, strong mandates” to lower emissions, he said, warning property owners will face massive fines unless buildings are retrofitted.
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    Why not just unleash a genetically modified pathogen and wipe out 90% of humanity and force the remaining 10% to live in a state of Stone Age savagery? That would be the ultimate Green New Deal. I am sure that the statists had already toyed around with this idea behind closed doors. It's cool. We ain't dumb. We know what your intentions really are.
     
    So they are also supposed to accomplish this while being stuck with rent and price controls as well?

    The down side to this is that as NYC decides to destroy itself, the rich democrat communist supporters who helped make the whole mess will be fleeing like rats to infest the rest of the country.
    Build a wall.... fast!
     
    So they are also supposed to accomplish this while being stuck with rent and price controls as well?

    The down side to this is that as NYC decides to destroy itself, the rich democrat communist supporters who helped make the whole mess will be fleeing like rats to infest the rest of the country.

    Just like any other parasite, they use up the host and then look for another to suck off (of),
     
    While I would support a building height cap between 3-5 stories (because I don't like heights), there is nothing about this that makes sense.
     
    New York City has won the WTF jackpot:

    According to mayor Bill de Blasio, "only the Green New Deal can save us from climate change". His solution: Ban the construction of any new glass and steel skyscrapers. All existing ones must be completely retrofitted or the owners will face crushing fines.

    Article:

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    If the Big Apple is to become the Green Apple, it will have to ban the steel and glass towers that form its signature skyline, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

    De Blasio, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” said that city’s most iconic structures – the tall skyscrapers seen from miles away – are the “biggest source of emissions” in New York City. The drastic change, and a switch to only renewable energy within five years, are necessary for Gotham to embrace the Green New Deal, de Blasio said.

    “We are putting clear, strong mandates” to lower emissions, he said, warning property owners will face massive fines unless buildings are retrofitted.
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    Why not just unleash a genetically modified pathogen and wipe out 90% of humanity and force the remaining 10% to live in a state of Stone Age savagery? That would be the ultimate Green New Deal. I am sure that the statists had already toyed around with this idea behind closed doors. It's cool. We ain't dumb. We know what your intentions really are.
    Wasn't that the plot in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six book...
     
    While I would support a building height cap between 3-5 stories (because I don't like heights), there is nothing about this that makes sense.

    They tried that in Austin. No buildings could block the view of the Capitol. So heres the current view from S. Congress.

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    "In the same conversation that he was touting renewable energy and reducing emissions, de Blasio also defended his use of a gas-guzzling SUV for his daily 11-mile trips from Gracie Mansion to his Brooklyn gym."

    This is obviously a calculated political move and it really boggles the mind how this is the sort of thing that gets the libs all worked up to go vote. The Libs are foaming at the mouth for someone to tell them what new liberties they can give up today for the "greater good" while the politicians and legislators proposing the new laws restricting rights and taking away freedoms refuse to give up the freedoms/rights contemplated in the proposed legislation.

    How stupid do you have to be to get yourself into this state of mind. Like, I'm trying to understand it but I can't.
     
    "In the same conversation that he was touting renewable energy and reducing emissions, de Blasio also defended his use of a gas-guzzling SUV for his daily 11-mile trips from Gracie Mansion to his Brooklyn gym."

    This is obviously a calculated political move and it really boggles the mind how this is the sort of thing that gets the libs all worked up to go vote. The Libs are foaming at the mouth for someone to tell them what new liberties they can give up today for the "greater good" while the politicians and legislators proposing the new laws restricting rights and taking away freedoms refuse to give up the freedoms/rights contemplated in the proposed legislation.

    How stupid do you have to be to get yourself into this state of mind. Like, I'm trying to understand it but I can't.

    Just remember: They elected AOC whose first act was to cost them 25-40,000 jobs.

    Dont bother trying to understand.
     
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    One would almost think that this is the Carol Burnett/Tim Conway show. Except the supporters of THAT show KNEW that what was on the stage both wasn't real AND was for comedic effect.

    Saying a lot, right there.

    Those were the days.



    Anyway, there's going to be a killing to be made in NYC when real estate fucking tanks. Bring your colorful beads to trade with the natives.
     
    "In the same conversation that he was touting renewable energy and reducing emissions, de Blasio also defended his use of a gas-guzzling SUV for his daily 11-mile trips from Gracie Mansion to his Brooklyn gym."

    This is obviously a calculated political move and it really boggles the mind how this is the sort of thing that gets the libs all worked up to go vote. The Libs are foaming at the mouth for someone to tell them what new liberties they can give up today for the "greater good" while the politicians and legislators proposing the new laws restricting rights and taking away freedoms refuse to give up the freedoms/rights contemplated in the proposed legislation.

    How stupid do you have to be to get yourself into this state of mind. Like, I'm trying to understand it but I can't.

    Thats sound like intel of his daily route , 11 miles with manholes every 600'lf.
     
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    If they re elect this ass or another democrat in NY they really do deserve what ever stupid shit they pushes on them . That goes double in LA and the rest of the country .
     
    I wonder what his house(s) and assemblage of gas burning vehicles look like.

    We'll get right on it bill after you move into an adobe hut and start filtering your own piss to drink.
     
    All building Owners should stop paying property taxes and use that money to retrofit their buildings. NYC runs low on cash Mrs De Balasio can get her old job back at Show World.
     
    Once again this just shows us the dems have no ideas what to do about trump

    Bill says something stupid to stay in the other idiots good graces after she fucks the amazon deal...the morons leading the retarded

    And he backs it up by putting a huge fine on them.....wait for it 1 million dollars.

    Now the dumb fuck knows that 1mm in manhatten is a joke, but he says a "big" number to make the minions that voted for him feel he's the second coming of Robin Hood

    Meanwhile the guy who owns the apartment at the top of my parents apartment building on Central Park has....over 1 billion with a B...worth of art work in his apartment. Picasso etc. he has such alarm/security that the rest of the tenets have to give notice when having any work done (not construction but also large item delivery), because the sensors go off. The owner pays for a private security firm to guard the place anytime any day.

    Do you think he really cares about a 1mm tax if some sort.

    Boy I can't wait for trump to get next to one of these guys on stage next year, clubbing baby seals comes to mind.
     
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    I may be showing how dumb I am right now ... but there are lot of things I don't understand about "global warming"

    The main thing that I don't understand though is ... Assuming arguendo, we accept the following as true:

    "The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 400 parts per million in the last 150 years. The panel also concluded there's a better than 95 percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years."

    (https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/)

    My understanding is that the sun haha is what heats the earth and "greenhouse" gasses are what prevent some of the heat from the sun from escaping ...

    I understand that the "climate scientists" are claiming that the increasing temperatures we have been experiencing are due, at least in substantial part, to "industrial activities" which raise carbon dioxide levels in the "greenhouse gasses layer" as opposed to something as simple as maybe the sun is burning brighter haha right now

    My question is ... what is the science on removing these "greenhouse gasses" from the "greenhouse gasses layer" once the "human produced" carbon dioxide and other gasses have already been added to the "greenhouse gasses layer" ...

    Is this a scenario where, according to the accepted science as of now, we are currently fucked without finding a way to remove the carbon dioxide that has already been added to the atmosphere or is there some rate at which we could slow down adding additional carbon dioxide and/or other greenhouse gasses where things would be okay in the future according to the current scientists??

    I'm not really well researched in this area and haven't done a lot of research but I'm not aware of many good ways to remove carbon dioxide from the "greenhouse gasses layer" ... Re-forestation has been suggested as a way to make small improvements.

    Any way, my apologies for the long drunken rant, it's been a long day and I've already had a few too many but there is no way in hell some libtard is going to give me a hard time for driving my 4x4 diesel truck around when I have several hundred acres of timber land unless they can prove they are doing something good for the environment to back their bullshit mouth breathing up haha.
     
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