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SF Climate Strike -- Water (week 1) [1]

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Date: 2023-06-15  

This is the first week strike letter, the second week of the actual strike, which started early March, 2019. For context, see this story. For an annotated Table of Contents for the strike letters, see this story.

STRIKE FOR THE PLANET

while we can still make any difference at all, cause it’s now or never

It won’t be cheap, or easy, or politically feasible, or pro-capitalist, or any of the rest of the nonsense we’ve let blind us 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.

So let’s talk about WATER.

We’re facing:

increasing drought with periodic devastating floods and slides

the poisoning and depletion of the groundwater that’s left

increased toxic algae blooms

heat waves in the ocean and bay destroying water ecosystems like forest fires

plastic everywhere

and much more.

So what do we, in SF, have to do?

We must:

recycle 100% of our water in SF

dramatically increase permeable surface area in SF

save the bay and delta – no tunnels to ship water south for a start

all organic gardening and farming in SF

give up Hetch Hetchy – it’s not sustainable and it hurts N CA’s survival options

immediately bring to the surface all streams and rivers in SF

eliminate all single use plastics immediately

eliminate reusable plastic entirely by 2021

no combustion motors in use for any purposes in SF by 2021 at the latest

establish rain gardens throughout SF

establish biologically diverse green spaces throughout SF (look at roofs, too)

make the city into an urban forest

divest entirely from every fossil fuel connection or entanglement

give financial incentive for victory gardens (aka a fee for not having one)

strict enforcement so everyone recycles and composts 100% correctly all the time

eliminate all surface pollutants that blow or are carried by rains into the ocean/bay

establish aggressive pick-up of toxins (from paint to unused medicines)

rebuild shore ecosystems

And get our scientists involved in figuring out how to do as much as we can as fast as we can while we still have the possibility to do anything at all. Now.

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