TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017: NOTE TO FILE
Vote Ecolate Party
For real solutions
Eric Lee, A-SOCIATED PRESS
TOPICS: TRANSITION NOW, FROM THE WIRES, WHY WAIT?, LIVING THE SUSTAINABLE LIFE, THE PARTY TO END ALL PARTY POLITICS
Abstract: I decide to run for political office because most anyone can. If nothing else, I get to detail a platform for local consideration. Of course I keep it to a one page handout size.
TUCSON (A-P) — For a prosperous way down: Vote Ecolate Party
- Set limits to power and speed: Ban all over-powered vehicles (OPV) within city limits within five years: 20% of streets closed to OPV the first year, 25% of remaining the second, 33% the third, 50% of remaining the fourth, 100% the fifth year to achieve zero OVP (IC vehicle and electric car/truck) use by end of fifth year.
- OPV within banned areas may be disabled by citizens and salvage rights claimed (police to escort driver from area if needed to protect driver and serve public interest).
- Electric wheelchairs/e-trikes/e-bikes for handicapped and elderly permitted on non-pedestrian human-powered vehicle (HPV) roadways. Electric emergency vehicles allowed in designated emergency thruway lanes with siren, speed limited by driver's safety-first mantra.
- All vehicles, including bicycles and skaters/rollers, within walkways must observe universal pedestrian right-of-way by going no faster than pedestrians.
- On rollerways, no HPV with electric assist may pass or tailgate a human-powered vehicle nor exceed an averaged HPV speed of 15 kph while using e-assist.
- Cargo vehicles may have electric assist limited to power provided by solar PV contained within permitted foot-print of vehicle. If a battery is used to maintain speed in shaded areas, speed limited to speed provided by solar PV without battery in full sun.
- All water use to be supplied via rainwater catchment within five years as CAP (aqueduct from Colorado River) unsustainably pumps water (1,650 feet) uphill in elevation (or a total of about 2,000 feet to allow for flow between pumping stations) (336 miles) via 15 pumping plants (using 2.8 trillion Wh/year of electric from coal-fired power plant) to pump 500 billion gallons of water per year, the largest user of electric power in the state. Tucsonians will no longer be dependent on outside water, other than rainfall, and all groundwater draw-down will cease within five years until the Santa Cruz River flows again centuries hence (NOT in 50 years, though flow in three former creeks would be increased measurably in the near future).
- Transition to composting of organic resources within five years, including manure (human etc.) as sewer system will be shutdown. All garbage disposal plumbing units to be removed to reclaim metals. All humanure and other animal manure, urine, paper, household refuse and yard resources collected weekly for composting at community biobin system, with finished compost returned to home and community gardens. Plastic products will be on display at museum.
- The coal-fired electric power plant will be progressively shutdown and scraped in five years and natural gas shut off.
- Burnable household waste to be processed by householders on site into chips for use with other imported or grown on site biomass for use in biomass-gas cooking stoves used when solar cookers cannot be used (45-75 days per year).
- Immediate tax (10% of purchase) levied on non-reusable containers to increase annually until all non-reusable (500+times) container use ends within five years.
- Those unable (secondary to being unwilling) to adapt to needed change can voluntarily go elsewhere to not adapt—voluntary depopulation being the best possible local area outcome.
- If elected, I will not serve unless a majority of other city council members supporting the Ecolate Party Platform are also elected to effect needed changes, so vote Ecolate Party for real solutions when you've had enough of business-as-usual.
Eric Lee for City Council
Ward 5, Tucson, AZ USA
Why wait? Transition now.
Ask questions, listen to biophysical reality, endeavor to know rather than believe because that's what works, bitches (aka ideologues, true believers).—xkcd.
