Category Archives: Climate Emergency Balls

CLIMATE EMERGENCY BALLS: IT’S TREES OR CARS

An occasional series highlighting the nonsense spouted in the name of ‘the climate emergency’

“In a climate and ecological emergency, we need radical action, and fast …The alternative to schemes that involve felling a few trees [74 in total on one site], to safeguard and improve our active travel and public transport infrastructure [by building 166 homes in ‘attractive mid-rise buildings’], is the continued increase of car journeys.”

https://thebristolcable.org/2021/09/saving-every-tree-is-not-the-answer/

The Bristol Cable explaining why trees at Baltic Wharf – a site that has both the largest single collection of trees and the highest tree density on the harbourside – must be chopped down because ‘climate emergency’.

Further reading on the value of trees at Baltic Wharf

CLIMATE EMERGENCY BALLS: ROUNDABOUTS

An occasional series highlighting the nonsense spouted in the name of ‘the climate emergency’

“Having declared a climate emergency we do need to improve the efficiency of the roundabouts”

Steve Reade, South Gloucestershire Council Conservative cabinet member for regeneration, environment & strategic infrastructure: