1 Stevenson, Garrett
Subject: FW: MSC meeting , agenda item 2, public comment From: Greg Apodaca < >
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 3:26 PM
To: Sabha, Tamer <[email protected]>; Stevenson, Garrett <[email protected]> Subject: MSC meeting , agenda item 2, public comment
------------------------ Municipal Services Committee:
Five years ago I didn't think much about climate change. Like most folks I thought it was not going to impact me. I WAS WRONG. Climate change is a crisis that is hurting us HERE in PASADENA and is already hurting me and it is hurting you too.
"People are now suffering and dying from climate change," says Kristie Ebi, one of the lead authors of the report and an epidemiologist at the University of Washington. That's because heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires, disease outbreaks and other dire effects of climate change are accelerating more rapidly than scientists expected in many parts of the world, including in North America and California where Pasadena is located.
We are suffering in Pasadena as fires rage as never before in local mountains.
The Bobcat fire a few years ago burned 115,000 acres coming into Arcadia before being stopped by first responders. My wife Alma and I received calls from authorities to prepare to evacuate as the fire ragged ever closer to our home. The smoke got heavier and heavier and concerned family members let us know we could stay with them if need be. Things got real for us right then and there and we bought two emergency kits with water and provisions after that.
In another near miss incident, three women were killed when a Southern California sea cliff collapsed were members of a family gathered on a beach in Encinitas by SanDiego to celebrate one of them having survived breast cancer, authorities and relatives said Saturday. My wife and I were in that exact same spot three days earlier when visiting friends.
Preventing 'runaway climate change,' yes that is a thing, requires dramatic cuts to greenhouse emissions in the next decade, which would require that humans stop burning fossil fuels in cars, trucks and power plants.
"Coal and other fossil fuels are choking humanity," Guterres says. Fossil fuel companies, banks and investors are all complicit, he argues. "Those in the private sector still financing coal must be held to account. Oil and gas giants - and their underwriters – are also on notice."
Pasadena has a choice to also be complicit' or not. That is the choice. We need Pasadena to be carbon free power sourcing ASAP.
Please move the PASADENA 100 resolution calling for 100% carbon free (not carbon neutral) power sourcing by 2030 to the Council and vote for it there.
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Greg Apodaca
Vision Holder and CEO
Community 2.0
www.Gapodaca.com