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Editorial: Inconvenient truths
If city is serious about climate change...
Published 12:00 am PST Tuesday, March 6, 2007
One wonders what Sacramento City Council members will be thinking as they gaze at Al Gore on the big screen. We may find out tonight, as Mayor Heather Fargo has arranged a rather unusual City Council meeting. The council will be watching in City Hall, in open session, the former vice president's movie on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth."
The period for public comment is after the movie, not during. If the council gets into the spirit of the moment and starts wondering what inconvenient things it could do to lower the civic emissions of carbon dioxide, here are three questions for them to ponder:
• Why does the city truck its garbage across the Sierra Nevada to another state (Nevada)? Isn't there a place nearby that makes sense (such as, say, the county dump?)
• Will the city ever finish a bicycle lane along the Sacramento River to connect the downtown with Greenhaven and the Pocket as an inviting alternative to roadways for the automobile? Or will those neighbors along the levee always make enough fuss to keep folks in their cars?
