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Contents #101

• #101: Net zero: A good wheeze for the rich
• #102: In 2022, climate tipping points get noticed
• #103: EcoTowns aren’t Eco
• #104: Green belts restrict housing development
• #105: Car free housing for affordable homes
• #106: It’s hard to persuade people with cars to use buses
• #107: Brownfield sites should be nature reserves
• #108: The ONS is wrong on land values
• #109: Listen to the BBC for Government greenwash
• #110: Item 110

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Contents #91

• #91: Problems with Garden Cities
• #92: The Paris Agreement and the CCC
• #93: Car-free living
• #94: Starter homes for £20K
• #95: Stop the planning racket
• #96: Needed: Green and pleasant jobs
• #97: Fund Lifestyle R&D by planning gain
• #98: Small scale microwave pyrolysis
• #99: Tax income from planning gain
• #100: Raise VAT rates, subsidise jobs

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Contents #81

• #81: No cars in the city
• #82: Friends, neighbours and architectural determinism
• #83: No more high buildings
• #84: Oscar Newman: Look, learn and improve
• #85: Five planning policies
• #86: Cheap, neighbourly and doesn’t screw the world up
• #87: Needed: Enhanced town planning
• #88: A new Ministry of Works
• #89: Cut methane emissions now
• #90: Cumulative climate damage

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Contents #71

• #71: Embodied carbon and climate
• #72: Food and the remaining carbon budget
• #73: Carbon budgets and transport
• #74: We are not short of land
• #75: Construction and prefabrication
• #76: Pollution in the countryside
• #77: Pollution in towns
• #78: Density and disease
• #79: Greenbelts
• #80: Economist Lionel Robbins misunderstood science

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Contents #61

• #61: Subsidise goods that use lots of labour
• #62: Local inequality in greenhouse gas emissions
• #63: Net-zero is a smoke screen
• #64: Perverse language in IPCC SR15 downplays Ocean Heat Content
• #65: Lucky old Sun – and a common myth
• #66: Cars and choice
• #67: The York Local Plan
• #68: Are BEVs better than ICE cars?
• #69: Does GWP*, cheat on climate targets?
• #70: Land value tax could bring a little fairness

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Contents #51

• #51: Start each day with a minute of silence for the climate dead
• #52: Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
• #53: Permafrost Melting 70 Years early
• #54: Don’t sneer at cheap tiny homes
• #55: Growth limited by carbon budgets
• #56: Keep a watch on Arctic sea-ice
• #57: Watch for extreme weather events
• #58: Bike is best
• #59: Cargo bikes for local deliveries
• #60: Greenhouse emissions did this

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Would Greta say York Council lies?

York strategy consultations

The following may not have been considered by the strategy team.

Climate change and inequality

In A Net Zero Carbon Roadmap for York, Professor Andy Gouldson estimated York’s share of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C. It was 48 tonnes CO2e per person from the beginning of 2020.

The remaining carbon budget is the amount of greenhouse gases, that humanity can emit while still having a chance to contain global warming within 1.5°C compared with preindustrial levels, as advocated by the Paris Agreement.

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Contents #41

• #41: Watch for El Nino
• #42: E-congestion is still congestion
• #43: Ban meat advertising
• #44: No jobs on a dead planet
• #45: World glaciers are in retreat
• #46: Floods, drought and famine
• #47: Heat risk to food supply
• #48: Give bees a chance
• #49: RTPI projects won’t stop climate destruction.
• #50: A new breed of town planners needed

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Contents #31

• #31: Property Location Rights
• #32: Green belts and the view
• #33: Cheat with parklets
• #34: Pay motorists to give up cars?
• #35: Beware the Gulf Stream weakening
• #36: A better use for brownfield sites
• #37: The public need to know about climate
• #38: Keep telling the public
• #39: Degrowth to save the climate
• #40: Follow the funding

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The ONS makes a category mistake

Over recent decades, large increases in property prices have given considerable wealth to house owners. Many of these are affluent people in affluent areas. The less affluent in less affluent areas are paying more rent.

Housing supply, inequality and the under 30s