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"And I say; the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle,
wide as daylight and as starlight. And in the center grew one mighty flowering tree,
- to shelter all the children."
- Black Elk
"Baltimore is already experiencing a climatic and meteorological shift towards winters and springs with more extreme precipitation
events contrasted by hotter, dryer, and longer summers. These changes have led to increased property damage, economic injuries,
and impacts to public health. The city must spend substantial funds to plan for and respond to these phenomena, and to mitigate
their secondary and tertiary impacts. Compounding these environmental impacts are cascading social and economic impacts....
Baltimore is expected to experience a threefold increase in the average number of days exceeding 90 degrees by 2050."
- Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. BP P.L.C., a 2018 lawsuit against 26 oil companies that reached the United States
Supreme Court
NUMBER OF 90+ DAYS FAHRENHEIT 2018: 2019: 2020: 2021: 2022: 2023: SO FAR 2024: 39 Days
In 2018, 39 days forecasted for 2040. 39 days+ already in 2024, and not even mentioning 100+ days.
THIS WEBSITE IS STUDY-READING INTENSIVE. THIS HOME PAGE IS SAMPLER OF THE MAIN 8 TOPICS:
Please seek, "Mission" to learn about Baltimore Serenade
"Global Temperatures Set to Reach New Records in Next Five Years" - World Meteorological Organization (2023)
"Climate Change May Cost $38 Trillion a Year by 2049" - Axios (April 2024) [Or More...]
High tides occur approximately 12 hours and 25 minutes apart. Twice a day, waters gather in low-lying Baltimore, usually
not noticeable.
Waters come in and out till it will be permanent sea level rise.
East Coast: 10 to 14 inches (25 to 35 centimeters) Average Rise. ~~~~~~~~ West Coast: 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters)
Average Rise.
Gulf Coast: 14 to 18 inches (35 to 45 centimeters) Average Rise.
Immanent Urban Population Global Water Scarcity: Projected to double from 930 million in 2016 to 1.7 - 2.4 Billion People
in 2050 - UNESCO & UN (March 2023)
EVERY COUNTRY. EVERY SECTOR. EVERY TIME FRAME HAS SPED UP. = 2050 IS NOW 2040.
"Human-Caused Climate Change Fuels Warmer, Wetter, Stormier Arctic: 2022 Arctic Report Card Features Indigenous Observations
and Knowledge" - NOAA (December 13th, 2022)
THE JEAN CHARLES CHOCTAW NATION
JEAN CHARLES CHOCTAW NATION: "Rising Sea Levels Force Louisiana Community to Move" - "Good Morning America" (April 18th, 2023)
[FIVE INCHES PER YEAR SEA LEVEL RISE]
Through the "Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972," sea level coastal Baltimore City has KNOWN for 52 years it
must act and change its infrastructure regarding The Greenhouse Effect.
Baltimore population extinction of 177 species of mammals is in realm of 76% to 100%.
Yes, to complete biological ecosystem annihilation.
"The United States is warming faster than the global average and its people are suffering 'far-reaching and
worsening' consequences from the climate crisis, with worse to come."
"The Fifth National Climate Assessment" - GlobalChange.gov | The United States Government (November 2023)
"Earth Shattered Global Heat Record in '23 and it's Flirting With Warming Limit" - Associated Press (2024)
This means, at best, we have 4 years to completely redesign and start constructing Baltimore's infrastructure
and adapt to a new way of life. Canals cannot be built where too much water exists... Or, in 4 years, as frequent
as twice a day even higher tides will occur. It will not be acceptable. On to find a new home, far far away
from, what was; Baltimore.
"Two Years to Save the World" - Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, Simon Stiell - Chatham House (April 10, 2024)
Venice
WE HAVE JUST 2 YEARS: "For those who say that climate change is only one of many priorities, like ending poverty, ending hunger,
ending pandemics, or improving education, I simply say this: none of these crucial tasks – indeed none of the Sustainable
Development Goals - will be possible unless we get the climate crisis under control."
Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change
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"Over a Century of Global Warming Visualized in 35 Seconds"
Global Mean Temperature: 1850-2020
"See What Three Degrees of Global Warming Looks like" - The Economist (2021)
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The First "New World" Democracy - Is First Nation: "Native America" - PBS
Listen to American Indian Russell Means
OUR LUMBEE TRIBE: "This Land Was Their Land" - Baltimore Magazine (2022)
English is spoken.
"Climate Change Forces Quileute Tribe to Relocate" - CBS Evening News [Washington State] (2021)
Living Today: Black Mesa Region of Navajo Nation
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77% of undescribed Vascular Plants and 45% of known Flowering Species are threatened -
with extinction. Each ecosystem, web of life starts with the end of life. No death, no life.
(October 10th, 2023)
SINCE 2019, ETHIOPIA HAS PLANTED 20 BILLION SAPLINGS - VARIETIES ACTUALLY ATTRACTING MOISTURE.
WHEN WILL BALTIMORE START PLANTING????
Baltimore has committed to plant only 40% of vitally needed canopy - by 2037. We need 100% for MANY YESTERDAYS
- NOW.
Peacekeeping - United Nations
"The Lorax" - Dr. Seuss
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- PBS America (2022)
AIR POLLUTION CAUSES DEMENTIA, BRAIN SHRINKAGE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN YOUNG TOO: ANIMALS INCLUDING HUMANS
- CHILDREN, CATS, DOGS.... NO ONE BREATHES WELL.
"Carbon Dioxide Levels Now Higher Than Ever in Human History: Levels Have Risen More Than 50 Percent in the Last Two Centuries
Alone" - Smithsonian Magazine (2022)
Baltimore's 2022* {GROUND} OZONE GRADE = F - American Lung Association
*Report releases every March of current year, assessing March 2021 - February 2022.
The rate and rating is directly related to weather heat and elongating heat waves, usage of Baltimore City roads, including
intrastate and interstate vehicles, increase in ground ozone, and increase in tire revolution erosion emissions (due to heavier
batteried EV vehicles). Summer of Baltimore 2023 is expected to be longer - and hotter.
Baltimore's 2023** {GROUND} OZONE GRADE = C - American Lung Association
** March 2023 report (March 2022- February 2023) Surface ozone grade better due to unusually Cool spring, summer,
and fall.
Baltimore's 2024*** {GROUND} OZONE GRADE = B and "Inconclusive" - American Lung Association
***March 2024 report (March 2023 - February 2024) Surface ozone grade better due to heat domes forming, with air "trappings"
(including Canadian Fire elements) moving, consistently hot summer.
Baltimore City Government Goal: to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions 30% by 2025 (so December 31st, 2024 11:59 P.M.) below 2007
levels; In 2020, failed - only 23.2% of 25% reduction.
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"Ground Level Ozone: What Is It?" - National Center for Atmospheric Research
{click above}
"In Baltimore City, 20% of children have an asthma diagnosis, which is more than double the national prevalence
of 9%."
Baltimore is ranked the ninth hottest urban hot zone in America. - Climate
Central
Now 2024, "TIED AT 7TH WORST - HOTTEST URBAN HEAT ISLAND
"'It's too hot to be out here, for real. Even for kids. It's 80-something degrees at night. That's serious," Warren Hawkins
said Tuesday in McElderry Park. 'Look, there ain't no trees. It's a wide-open area. Nothing but sun.'"
McElderry Park: Hottest Neighborhood in Baltimore City.
Considered the hottest place in entire State of Maryland.
Read the Comments Too
"There are many neighborhoods that do not have the trees and grass and parks that keep the temperature down,
and people who live there often do not have air conditioning, or reliable air conditioning, or they worry about being
able to pay their electric bills. A heat wave can be really scary for people with asthma and COPD who can't escape into
a cool, indoor environment."
- Dr. Meredith McCormack, an associate professor of medicine and medical director of Pulmonary Function Laboratory at Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine.
BALTIMORE IS NOW (2023) TIED AT #7TH WORST URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN THE UNITED STATES in 2 of 3 categories:
City-Wide Urban Heat Rankings City Average UHI Index AND Population-Weighted Average UHI Index Values
"This harmful scenario is called the "urban heat Island effect," and it happens when building materials such as
concrete and asphalt absorb heat during the day and radiate it back at night. It causes temperatures to rise more
dramatically compared to rural and suburban locations, or city areas with ample green spaces, trees, and
parks.
"Heat waves are more than uncomfortable - they kill, causing more deaths in the
United States than any other severe weather event, - Nature Communications.
2022: Biden Administration Launches Heat.gov Tools to Face Extreme Heat - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)
Heat.gov Website
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Harvard University: Out of 100 Cities, Baltimore City children's well-being is dead last.
Baltimore damages its "born and raised" children simply by LIVING - here.
"Every extra year spent in the city of Baltimore reduces a child's earnings by 0.86% per year of exposure,
generating a total earnings penalty of approximately 17% for children
who grow up there from birth."
"5 Takeaways From Associated Press's Series on Health Disparities Impacting Black Americans" - Associated Press (May 2023)
Baltimore Dubbed "Overdose Capital" Amid Drug-Related Deaths" (2024)
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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars;
it's where the rich use public transportation."
- Gustavo Petro, a Mayor of Bogota, Colombia
Streetcars = Trams
Paris secured the 2024 Summer Olympics with commitment to returning trams countrywide for their citizens. So did Los Angeles,
who streetcar secured not only 2028 Summer Olympics, but 2026 FIFA in same fashion.
Streetcars = Trams
"An American Example of Quality Transport!: Trams Gliding Across the Water in Houston, Texas" (2021)
"Why Generation Z is Not Getting Driver Licenses" - NBC Chicago (February 2024)
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"Gone" - Jack Johnson
End Incineration
End Incineration
End Incineration
Of The Mohawk Nation
"Grandmother ~ I am the Earth" - Ayla Schafer
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[70% of Cobalt comes from Democratic Republic of Congo. Depicts Child and Slave Wage Labor, and Mourning Loved Ones
Cobalt is used for Batteried Electric Vehicles (BEV/EV)] - Foreign Correspondent ABC News (2022)
"Cobalt Rush: The Shadow Side of Going Green" - DW Documentary (2023)
"The Problem With Recycling Electric Car Batteries" - DW Planet A (June 7th, 2024)
"That Was Fast! First Sodium Ion Battery Cars Hit the Market" - Aptera Owner's Club (2023)
"Sweden's NEW Sodium-Ion Battery SHOCKS The EV Industry!" - Ultium Tech (2023)
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"Because it's often seen as welfare, investing in mass transit has become a politically charged issue — with conservatives
unwilling to spend on what they see as a social program for the urban poor. This doesn't really happen in other countries."
Began in 2017. Trams ~ Streetcars are Mandatory.
Began in 2017. Trams ~ Streetcars are Mandatory.
"Why Paris Tore Down A Highway To Build A Tram" - Sensato (2024)
"Why Car-Free Streets May Be Here to Stay" - Bloomberg Originals (2020)
Notice, no "developers" revitalized Asheville.
"Why We Need Solarpunk, Ecosocialist, and Degrowth-Oriented Cities" - Our Changing Climate (June 28, 2024)
Newly Cuilt Brandevoort, The Netherlands: "PROVES We Can Still Build Beautiful Cities" - The Aesthetic City (May 2024)
"All the Ways Car Dependency Is Wrecking Us" - City Nerd (2024)
"Why Does The U.S. Destroy Its Cities For Highways" - Strong Towns (2024)
Train-Building Explosion Brings Prosperity: "How Trains Are Replacing Planes In Europe" - Mythical Modern (2022)
"Human Population Through Time" - American Museum of Natural History
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Unfortunately, it is worse than this 2009 documentary. 6PPD Storm Drain run off due to tire erosion; plastic nano-particles
and 2000 chemicals, one being 6PPD combined with ground ozone = 6PPD-Quinone is worse than ever. It has killed 99% of Coho
Salmon, now an Endangered Species. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHS) are in tires, as the amount of plastic used instead
of rubber has gone up, and thinner layers. so have sealants. Tire manufacturers will not divulge.
"Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, the states with the largest runoff into the Chesapeake Bay, are not on track
to meet their goals to restore the nation's largest estuary by 2025. ....
During the Oct. 11 meeting, members are expected to discuss accelerating efforts to clean up the bay by 2025. Their decisions
will directly affect over 18 million people and 3,600 species of plants and animals that live in the watershed's
64,000 square mile expanse."
DECISION: "The Supreme Court is Curtailing the Federal Government's Power to Protect Some Wetlands"
PFAS are not only allowed, but endorsed by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Seek to reveal: learn why they
are part of you, as in all animals, all in the name of having an, "easy" life.
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TIRE CARBON EMISSIONS KILL
"A TOXIC COCKTAIL OF LEAD, COPPER, ZINC, MERCURY, PAHS (POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS) AND PCBS (POLYCHLORINATED
BIPHENYLS) ARE
IN THE HARBOR’S SEDIMENTS."
"It is time to consider not just what comes out of a car's exhaust pipe, but also particle pollution
from tire and brake wear. Our initial tests reveal that there can be a shocking amount of particle pollution
from NEEs;
1,000 times worse than emissions from a car's exhaust.
What is even more frightening is that while exhaust emissions have been tightly regulated for many years, tire
wear is totally unregulated, and with the increasing growth in sales of heavier SUVs and battery-powered
electric cars, non-exhaust emissions are a very serious problem.” - Richard
Lofthouse, senior researcher at Emissions Analytics
European Union Banned PAHS in Tires in 2006, and went into affect in 2010.
The United States is silent, pushing lithium-cobalt electric batteried vehicles (EV/EBV), heavy due to size of batteries
and water cooling systems (busses weighing up to 2 tons more), making tires erode into the air faster, and destroy roads,
bridges, tunnels... quicker. The United States must acknowledge tires are made with "Forever" chemical families, Poly
and Per Fluorinated (PFAS) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHS), disclose U.S. tire manufacturing process and divulge
what at least 2,000 chemical ingredients used are.
"On Dec. 18, 2006, the European Union/European Commission issued the regulation 1907/2006/EC (REACH). It requires that as
of Jan. 1, 2010, the total concentration of 8 specified PAHs must be less than 10 parts per million and the must be less than 1.0 parts per million in the oils isolated from the treads of ALL tires
manufactured within or imported into the European Union."
The eight EU-targeted PAHs are:
Benzo(a)anthracene, Chrysene, Benzo(b)fluoranthene, Benzo(j)fluoranthene, Benzo(k) Fluoranthene, Benzo(e)pyrene, Benzo(a)
Pyrene, and Dibenzo(a,h)anthracene.
Process oils and carbon blacks are widely used in making rubber compounds, including tires... Process oils and carbon blacks,
along with the PAHs contained in them, improve the process ability of the rubber compounds and, when used in tire treads,
enhance important rubber performance characteristics such as wet grip, wear and durability.
Once the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons become part of the Tires, especially
as part of tire treads, some of the fine tire debris left on highways and city streets eventually become airborne.
Some PAHs, such as BaP, are known human carcinogens."
Tyre Energy Labelling Requirements & Regulations - European Commission, The European Union [Continually Updated]
EMERGENCY: TIRES TYRES EVERYWHERE
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"Is THIS the Real Reason More Homes Are Burning in Wildfires?" - PBS Terra (2022) [It's the Houses]
Smaller Footprint: A geothermal plant uses 88% less space than a solar farm to produce 1GWh of electricity.
- Think GeoEnergy Research, U.S. Department of Energy National Geographic, International Renewable Energy Agency (2022)
This film is specific to solar and propeller wind turbine mechanisms, salesman/womanship, and the industries behind them.
There are new propeller-less wind turbines that are able to be attached to chimneys using gyroscope-type of movement.
It is unfair to leave the viewer with hopelessness, and there should of been an overview of other energies that are already
being used, even centuries, utilized rather than fossil fuels: hydropower, geothermal, gasification, and carbon farming.
[How "American Exceptionalism" is RUINING U.S.A.]
"Plasma Gasification Versus Incineration" - Prajwala BioEnergy (2017)
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15,000 HOUSES BECOME BALTIMORE'S REPARATIONS
HOUSE DIAGRAM MAP IS HERE!:
Hark the useful Declaration for 15,000 abandoned houses that led to the peaceful cry of "Reparations For All" and the compulsory
need of becoming exemplarily stewards - Now.
WATCH: "Urban Nature-based Solutions: Buildings and Neighbourhoods" - World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Mostly filmed in Baltimore.
"This 94-Year-Old Home May Be The Key To Revolutionizing Green Tech" - Forbes Magazine (2019)
WATCH: "The Future of Architecture: Flexible Buildings"
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"Racism Has Shaped Public Transit, and It's Riddled With Inequities" - Rice University Series, Kinder Institute for Urban
Research (2020)
"America Always Gets This Wrong When Building Transit" - Not Just Bikes
"Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same" - Wendover Productions
"Throwing Good Money After Bad Car Infrastructure - Expanding Wonderland Road" - Not Jut Bikes (2021)
"Why Cities Are Banning Cars Around The World" - CNBC (September 2022)
Continuous Sidewalks: "The Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks" - Not Just Bikes
Continuous Sidewalk For Mid-street Use (School...)- United States Department of Transportation & Federal Highway Administration
(US DOT FHA) (2019)
"How to Design a Great Street" - City Beautiful
Organized Variety ~ Streets of Life ~ The Art of the Square & Compact-Dense ~ Orientation & Mystery ~ Scale ~ Make
it Locally Unique
Organized Variety ~ Streets of Life ~ The Art of the Square & Compact-Dense ~ Orientation & Mystery ~ Scale ~ Make
it Locally Unique
WATCH: The State of Sand
"This Could Stop Construction Everywhere" - Tomorrow's Build
"Why The World Is Running Out Of Soil" - CNBC (2022)
WATCH: May 27th, 2018
CHOOSE: Which are you?
James Halliwell-Phillipps', "The Three Little Pigs" -
"Leave It As It Is" - American Rivers
AND LOOK: MAPS OF IMPORTANCE
READ: "5 Policy Solutions to Advance Racial Equity in Housing" - Habitat for Humanity
Film, "Going Places"
"Pandemic Creates New Billionaire Every 30 Hours. Now a Million People Could Fall Into Extreme Poverty at Same Rate in 2022"
- Oxfam International
"Political Orientation Moderates the Relationship Between Climate Change Beliefs and Worry About Climate Change" - Frontiers
in Psychology (2020)
BALTIMORE'S: "THE PEACE RESOLUTION"
PLEASE READ ENTIRE WEBSITE, ESPECIALLY TEXT AND WRITINGS THOROUGHLY.
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EMBRACING THE ENTIRE PICTURE: THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
"The Real Butterfly Effect" - Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
"Everything You Do Matters" - THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
"The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only
10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries: who have no gardens, who depend on
the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets,
not food and shelter."
-- Bill Mollison
"Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species. We have no instincts that automatically find
us food and shelter." -- Bruce H. Lipton
"I think, what is essential to this problem is - A Global Consciousness." - Carl Sagan
Dr James Hansen on Storms with David Letterman - "The Late Late Show With David Letterman" (2009)
Baltimore's Conduit: Will Voter Protected Prohibition of Sale, Transfer, or Franchise Prevail?
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