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If that poor woman had collapsed from heat stroke, we docs would have written the cause of death as heat stroke and not lack of trees and public transportation, poor urban form, and heat-island effects. If she had been killed by a truck going by, the cause of death would have been "motor-vehicle trauma," and not lack of sidewalks and transit, poor urban planning, and failed political leadership. That was the “aha!" moment for me. Here I was focusing on remote disease risks when the biggest risks that people faced were coming from the built environment.
Where would all this new money come from? From the central banks, who can make up new money through quantitative easing, as they did to keep liquidity in the economy after a credit freeze caused by a panic in the subprime mortgage market in 2008.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
Eviction defense lawyers say that justices of the peace, the elected judges who decide the outcomes for hundreds of eviction cases a day, are erratic and operate the courtrooms as “kingdoms,” with many interpreting emergency eviction protections in idiosyncratic ways and often ruling incorrectly.
When Harris County Tenants Have the Means to Appeal Evictions, Two-Thirds Have Cases Dismissed
R.A. Schuetz
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