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Tower close to BART
isn’t ‘climate-smart’
I'm bored with listening to that constructing an enormous tower at North Berkeley BART is “climate-smart.”
Including so many new water connections in the course of the worst drought in 1,200 years isn't climate-smart.
Towers are constructed of concrete and metal. The concrete business is answerable for as much as 8% of worldwide CO2 emissions. Seventy-five % of the vitality used to make metal comes from burning coal. Neither are climate-smart.
Let’s construct an actual group of not more than seven tales with wooden, not concrete and metal. Let’s preserve all items inexpensive in order that academics, service staff and others who work in Berkeley can afford to reside in Berkeley.
Let the Silicon Valley commuters fill the market-rate items in different tasks that also have a number of vacancies earlier than constructing one other tower.
Bob Baldwin
Berkeley
Livermore council
performing undemocratic
Re. “Housing challenge transferring ahead,” Web page B1, Might 31:
This text in regards to the proposed Eden Housing challenge lacks steadiness.
What’s lacking? A proof of why Save Livermore Downtown (SLD) feels compelled to struggle to protect some open house within the heart of city. Nowhere within the article does it state the facet of SLD. As an alternative, the article extensively quotes council members who demonize SLD members calling them “undemocratic, racist, and classist” as a result of they disagree with a Metropolis Council that refuses to think about alternate options. The council accuses SLD of being against inexpensive housing when, in reality, SLD proposes a plan that might create extra inexpensive housing with out destroying downtown.
I believe a Metropolis Council that berates and maligns residents in public and bypasses their enter whereas handing over low-interest loans to builders is the one to be known as “undemocratic.”
Linda Milanese
Livermore
GOP’s democracy menace
stymies gun management
Gabbie Giffords, herself a taking pictures sufferer, stated “stopping gun violence takes the braveness to do the correct factor.”
Respectfully, I encourage to vary. It doesn’t take braveness. It takes a conscience. It takes compassion. It takes ethical energy of character. It takes a soul. All qualities conspicuously lacking from Republican lawmakers, from the NRA and from White supremacist gun advocates.
The NRA, with its highly effective affect, won't champion legal guidelines that promote gun security and accountable gun possession. Republican congressmen won't enact legal guidelines that preserve our youngsters protected and contribute to the widespread good of our folks. Maybe the need for cash and energy is the one reply, or maybe there's something extra sinister at play. These teams have usurped the Second Modification as their license to kill, threaten and intimidate with the intention to keep in energy, as was demonstrated by the Trump-organized Jan. 6 rebel.
Jeanne Kinkella
San Leandro
Our freedoms
include dangers
We reside within the land of the free, and with our liberty comes the duty of everlasting vigilance. We have to shield the freedoms that we've within the First and Second Amendments.
With our freedom of speech comes the chance that individuals will use that freedom to say issues which may be offensive to some folks, might not be true or could even be hurtful. Giving folks the liberty to personal weapons will run the chance that sure folks may use these weapons to unjustly hurt or kill others.
As we settle for these dangers of liberty, we acknowledge that the choice of an authoritarian state, the place these freedoms don't exist, is far worse.
Jack Hockel
Walnut Creek
In November, we should
prove for democracy
Within the 2020 nationwide election, voter turnout got here to over 66% of eligible voters. This was the very best turnout of the twenty first century. We elected Joe Biden as president, the Senate majority went to the Democrats, and the Home remained below Democrat management.
Now, two years later we're gridlocked within the Senate even over points the place Individuals have acknowledged their overwhelming assist for issues like gun security reform, a girl’s proper to decide on concerning abortion and voter rights safety. We preserve anticipating senators (notably GOP senators) will reply favorably and assist laws that has the sturdy assist of Individuals.
The upshot is the one manner the modifications will occur is that if these senators with baked-in positions are changed. Individuals want to beat mid-term complacency and vote in numbers just like 2020. This can even be a referendum on whether or not our democracy is maintained in its current kind. I’m hopeful.
Fredrick Ford
Walnut Creek