This group advocates for a response to the climate emergency that is on scale with the massive effort required to prevent civilization collapse. They just released 8 demonstration plans for U.S. cities which are pretty much the same policies and technologies but applied to different populations that have different availability of renewable energy resources.
The 36 page plans demonstrate how specific policies and technologies to reduce emissions have been done in other states and countries. It also promotes urban regenerative agriculture as a way to help sequester greenhouse gasses and increase local resiliency.
There is a lot of stuff in these documents, a lot of activities and technologies that work together and will fundamentally change the look and feel of a city that adopts such a plan. I do not understand all of the complex interactions and synergies that something like this can produce. The biggest unknown in my mind is how a local citizenry will respond when they see their government taking on this level of activity, the inherent local economic benefits that green jobs, manufacturing and the replacement of imported gasoline and natural gas with locally-generated solar and wind power.
I wonder how, for example, the rapid reduction in private vehicle ownership and the development of 'park and charge' lots in cities for electric vehicles will reduce street-level parking in cities? Do they simply expand the lanes for cars? Or do they put in functional bike and walk paths? both? What happens when a local city government finances a 'green bank' and the entire city decides that they want to divest their mortgages away from banks that fund oil and gas pipelines?
Anyway, something new. I don't think I have seen anything else like these plans out there to date.
check it out here:
https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/implementation-plans
