Excellent discussion! Although I’m interested in these topics, I expected I would, at times, zone out and lose focus, I did not, and found it was over before I’d expected. You organized this very well! Thank you, and appreciate your learned panel! Hope there were questions and responses, and that that was recorded, also. Had I been attending, I would have asked a question regarding climate change. Nothing specific, just that it looms large and will impact, I believe, every aspect of our lives on this planet, and wondered if they had thoughts regarding how they foresee it’s ramifications for their various fields of expertise. Perhaps outside of their portfolios, but doubtless this has crossed their minds, and they have thoughts on the matter. Once more, thank you so much for this thoughtful and important presentation!
I am delighted you enjoyed our conversation. Yes, climate change is a key issue facing the racially-divided American city. Coastal cities are most obviously effected by rising sea levels and increasing storm surges. But inland cities, too, are seeing greater rainfall and therefore greater risk of house floods when century-old sewers are overwhelmed. The response to climate change really solves two issues at once. Increasing permeable surface areas, better landscaping, and more trees both offsets climate change and improves urban quality of life by reducing the heat island effect. Adding light rail and bus rapid transit both reduces carbon footprint and improves transit access and the variety of jobs accessible to the American poor. Telling legislators that a specific infrastructure investment like a new sewage treatment plant or green way will slash carbon footprint is not a very convincing argument because the benefits exist but are globally distributed and difficult to measure in concrete terms. But, making the argument for this same project except on grounds of social justice, public health, and compensation for past environmental harms again poor Americans is more convincing. So, yes, the response to climate change is multi-pronged and inevitably addresses immediate local issues beyond a larger international call "to save Mother nature." My advice to lobbyists would be to sell climate mitigation efforts to legislators and the public as restorative justice, as compensation for past harms, and as quality of life benefits to historically-forgotten voters.
@@MylesZhang Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply, I agree wholeheartedly! Politicians will only do what can measured (in some way) within an election cycle. They won’t “save us”; they need constant pushing. Was there an audience Q & A? I, for one, would watch it if you put it up. If not, hope this happens again sometime. I appreciate your other videos as well; the one about prison architecture/social history was, in particular, very enlightening. Glad you do such impressive interesting diverse work, clearly enjoy doing it, and share so much of it.
@@polferiferus1938 Thank you. I am grateful to have a digital presence that connects my work to larger and more diverse audiences than I ever could have imagined. This does take time and work, but I value intellectual more than financial rewards. There were two questions in the Q&A from a Zoom room of 20, although the speakers did need to drop off after for other work. I am happy to continue conversations on this topic with any online audience by email or Zoom.
Excellent discussion! Although I’m interested in these topics, I expected I would, at times, zone out and lose focus, I did not, and found it was over before I’d expected. You organized this very well! Thank you, and appreciate your learned panel! Hope there were questions and responses, and that that was recorded, also.
Had I been attending, I would have asked a question regarding climate change. Nothing specific, just that it looms large and will impact, I believe, every aspect of our lives on this planet, and wondered if they had thoughts regarding how they foresee it’s ramifications for their various fields of expertise. Perhaps outside of their portfolios, but doubtless this has crossed their minds, and they have thoughts on the matter.
Once more, thank you so much for this thoughtful and important presentation!
I am delighted you enjoyed our conversation. Yes, climate change is a key issue facing the racially-divided American city. Coastal cities are most obviously effected by rising sea levels and increasing storm surges. But inland cities, too, are seeing greater rainfall and therefore greater risk of house floods when century-old sewers are overwhelmed.
The response to climate change really solves two issues at once. Increasing permeable surface areas, better landscaping, and more trees both offsets climate change and improves urban quality of life by reducing the heat island effect. Adding light rail and bus rapid transit both reduces carbon footprint and improves transit access and the variety of jobs accessible to the American poor. Telling legislators that a specific infrastructure investment like a new sewage treatment plant or green way will slash carbon footprint is not a very convincing argument because the benefits exist but are globally distributed and difficult to measure in concrete terms. But, making the argument for this same project except on grounds of social justice, public health, and compensation for past environmental harms again poor Americans is more convincing. So, yes, the response to climate change is multi-pronged and inevitably addresses immediate local issues beyond a larger international call "to save Mother nature." My advice to lobbyists would be to sell climate mitigation efforts to legislators and the public as restorative justice, as compensation for past harms, and as quality of life benefits to historically-forgotten voters.
@@MylesZhang Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply, I agree wholeheartedly! Politicians will only do what can measured (in some way) within an election cycle. They won’t “save us”; they need constant pushing. Was there an audience Q & A? I, for one, would watch it if you put it up. If not, hope this happens again sometime.
I appreciate your other videos as well; the one about prison architecture/social history was, in particular, very enlightening. Glad you do such impressive interesting diverse work, clearly enjoy doing it, and share so much of it.
@@polferiferus1938 Thank you. I am grateful to have a digital presence that connects my work to larger and more diverse audiences than I ever could have imagined. This does take time and work, but I value intellectual more than financial rewards.
There were two questions in the Q&A from a Zoom room of 20, although the speakers did need to drop off after for other work. I am happy to continue conversations on this topic with any online audience by email or Zoom.
A) choice B) inner city violence
Have you ever heard the old saying that "Birds of a feather flock together" ?