NEW YORK — Residents in Astoria, Queens, say the city planted trees in the middle of the sidewalk.
What thought was given to pedestrians trying to pass by seems to be nil.
Apparently the city has money to burn. It reminded me of the massive boondoggle going on in the poorer part of town, East River Park, surly not Central Park. I’ll throw in an update on that.
The four trees are along 29th Street between 31st Avenue and Broadway.
State Senator Michael Gianaris claims it was caused by a city error, but the parks department says that’s not the case.
Residents call it strange.
“I thought it was a joke. You don’t realize they’re planted for real, and in two, three years, they’re going to be hitting the building, you know,” Astoria resident Amir Memo said.
I’ve never seen anything like it … Space is being taken up by trees, and it leaves us no space to walk,” Astoria resident Sara Tsouli said.
The parks department says the trees were put in the middle of the sidewalk because of underground utility lanes.
UPDATE:The first phase of construction closures which included East River Park from Stanton Street south to Montgomery Street, began on December 6, 2021.
On December 18, 2023, the transition into phase two began with the closure of three additional ballfields to East Houston Street.
All for the mere sum of $1.45 Billion to start. De Blasio claims it’s the first project such as this done in the world. “Coastal Resiliency” is the new term for boondoggles that plunder the treasury in the name of climate change.
New York City is demolishing our big, beloved park on the unwealthy side of the Lower East Side and East Village. Everything must go–shady lawns, picnic areas, ballfields, running track, amphitheater, the compost yard, historic buildings, and 1,000 trees, most 82 years old and healthy.
The city is going ahead with the massively destructive ESCR–East Side Coastal Resiliency project–even though there are alternatives that could preserve much of our park and provide flood control.
Under the current plan, the city will build a 1.2 mile wall along the water and cover the razed park with eight feet of fill. Eventually a new park will be built on top of this levee.
The Best of the Swamp.
We know that Bill Gates is an expert on Covid. Blocking the sun is another expertise of his. Now forestry is his forte.
MIT Technology Review reported that Kodama Systems had raised around $6.6 million, a hefty sum, from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, billionaire Bill Gates’s climate fund. Trees will be cut down in California and buried in Nevada for this “stealth effort,” which Kodama characterizes as “biomass burial.” The Epoch Times posted a video clip on August 30 explaining Kodama’s plan to cut down and bury trees on millions of acres and how Gates is involved if you want a less credulous account than what MIT Technology Review provided. Yale researchers and payment company Stripe are also reportedly involved in funding or supporting the plan.
The first irony about this plan is that climate alarmists have spent many years hysterically insisting that no brush thinning or logging can occur, to the point where forests turned into tinderboxes just waiting for massive wildfires to happen. Yet now suddenly trees are “fire hazards,” and logging isn’t bad for the environment. It’s the only thing that can save us?
But the second point is that none of this wood will be used for anything. We know the globe isn’t warming but rather cooling and that the fearmongering about emissions and climate change has been just empty words founded on unscientific ideology for more than 50 years.
H/T: PJ Media
Do I understand this right?
We learned in school, apparently very different schools from todays, that living trees scrub carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and give us oxygen.
In order to bury the trees, open land has to be acquired and held, and heavy equipment brought in to excavate the pits for the tree funerals. I’ll bet the heavy equipment is not solar powered.
H/T: KTSA
You think I am kidding about Gates being a Mad Scientist? Earlier Bunk posts:
Bill Gates New Pandemic Book Praises COVID Isolation Camps
May 5, 2022 — bunkerville
Bill Gates: ‘Let’s block out the sun’ – spends big bucks
December 29, 2020
His latest as well:
In this video, a dive deep into the controversial initiative backed by billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. They unpack the startling plan to chop down and bury trees as a strategy to combat climate change. Is this a groundbreaking solution or an environmental disaster in the making?
So the largest landowner in America owning more farmland than anyone else, wants to control our forests as well. In this case, destroying the environment in the process.
The best of the swamp.
SNP admits to felling 16 million trees to develop wind farms. I thought Scotland was a bit sparse of trees to start with. You just couldn’t make it up! Scottish National Party gone mad! Nicola Sturgeon and Greta Thunberg team up? Thanks to GB News on this one.
What the Romans couldn’t finish in Scotland, their own government has.
How did Scotland lose its trees?
Woodland cover then began to decline, largely due to early agriculture. By the time the Roman legions of Agricola invaded Scotland in AD 82, at least half of our natural woodland had gone. Much of it was replaced by peatland, partly as a result of the cooler, wetter climate and partly because of human activities.
I would have to say-
This after I posted earlier this week –
I would have thought that Ireland would have had enough of starvation what with the earlier potato famine.
What’s going on across the pond?
The best of the swamp.
Paul Revere Award
Women and Guns (click)
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