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powerful forces aren't able to block decentralized developments dotting the country, but they're able to gather enough momentum to pass centralized and controve
by clairity 6y ago
powerful forces aren't able to block decentralized developments dotting the country, but they're able to gather enough momentum to pass centralized and controversial regulations? that doesn't pass the smell test.
that said, CEQA challenges have become a de facto tool in the nimby arsenal in CA.
- Lammy 6y agoA lot of local governments were overtaken by the anti-growth environmental crowd at the time. Marin County in particular had their 1968 growth plan revoked and a famously anti-growth plan replaced it in 1971: http://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/new-blog/2018/3/7/the-golden-gate-bridge-and-the-defining-of-marin http://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/new-blog/2018/3/7/... 'The decisive blow against growth was initiated in 1971 with the issuance of a Marin Planning Department report that proposed preserving Marin's lands except along the Highway 101 corridor. Entitled "Can the Last Place Last?" the report took its theme from Lew Welch's 1969 poem "The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings" The poem lamented the "hordes" that were "now piling up" and contained a refrain that captured perfectly the sentiment in Marin: "This is the last place. There is nowhere else to go."'
- clairity 6y agoyes, marin is a bastion of nimbyism (it's also quite pretty) but that's not the "entire environmental movement". the objection is to the exaggeration.
- Lammy 6y agoFair, sorry for my histrionic wording. The "roots of the environmental movement" is more like what I'm getting at. Put it this way: I care about the environment more than ever but no longer consider myself an Environmentalist™ after learning more of its history :)
- clairity 6y agono worries, labels like "environmentalist" don't matter nearly as much as intent and action.
- fmajid 6y agoThe city of Bolinas is notorious for vandalizing signs that point to it, to ensure outsiders can't find their way there. And they have a Bolinas Border Patrol, in a "ha, ha, only serious" kind of xenophobic way. https://www.belle-aurore.com/mike/2013/05/bolinas-vigilante-unwelcome-wagon/ https://www.belle-aurore.com/mike/2013/05/bolinas-vigilante-...
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoMore like "forces seeking to block development lend their backing to environmentalists because they realize that they share some common ground" but I agree that the blanket characterization of environmentalism is an exaggeration.