Urban Shade Equity — Families for Climate

Shade Equity in LA

Growing Shade Equity, One Tree at a Time by [[Edith de Guzman]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_forest_inequity

urban forest inequity

Mentions of humans thinning trees for better tree canopy in the section on black ash trees in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

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• Material wealth has been worn as a badge of honor
• Within this framework, pathological levels of consumption can be seen in from the perspective of justice as a badge of inequity.

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Global aggregates mask the uneven distribution of wealth and ecological footprint.

This is statistics about societal inequities in China that I was not aware of.

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Transportation speed is entangled with social equity and power: time-poor, cash-rich can "buy" time through labor, efficient technologies but the time-rich, cash-poor cannot trade time to become wealthy wealth.

Virilio's dromological law: "increase in speed, increases the potential for gridlock."

This evokes environmental concerns as well as critiques of political privilege/power wrt to elites with access to fast transport options and those with less clout relegated to public transportation, traffic jams, less reliable options, etc.

Citing Weber (integrated with Marx), Adam describes how time is used to promote social inequity.

Taken for granted in a socio-economic system, time renders power relationships as invisible