Transportation investments for more walking & riding could save thousands of lives and $billions!
Big new idea - encourage walking and bike riding - recent Boston study finds investments in infrastructure to promote bicycling and walking could
save as many as 770 lives and $7.6 billion each year across 12
northeastern states and the District of Columbia under the proposed Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) - extrapolated to many world cities means many thousands of healthier lives, many $billions saved & a cleaner planet: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/transportation-infrastructure-investments-could-save-hundreds-of-lives-billions-of-dollars/
Incongruous in the Tasmanian landscape, much like Kubrick's
black monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey. For future visitors to discover - its alien presence
suggesting it was put there with intent.And if future visitors can decipher the messages it contains, they could have a
glimpse of what caused the collapse of our civilisation.This is Earth's Black Box - a tool for analysis and a warning of the risk we run with how we are mismanaging our climate.To be placed in south-western Tasmania, it is already listening:https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-12-06/climate-change-earth-black-box-recorder/100621778
Lynn Wood
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René Leven
Marcus Gordon
Sabra Brock
