Global Warming and San Francisco

San Francisco continues to defy logic by encouraging the Clear Cutting of mature trees in San Francisco - this has happened at Parcel A on Hunters Point Shipyard and McClaren Park. It is happening all over the City. A couple of trees here, there, and everywhere.

Each tree is valued at around $162,000 for the role it plays in producing oxygen, addressing carobon dioxide and garnering nitrogen and helping enrich the soil.

Mayor Gavin Newsom has given his blessing to build 3 Combustion Turbines using fossil fuel which will spew dangerous toxins PM 2.5 into the air and polluted Bayview.

In the last 5 years our air pollution in the City of San Francisco has worsened and Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to brag that we are a Green City. Empirical Data shows our City is worse off under Mayor Gavin Newsom.

The City has NO Forest Management Plan that is working. Most of the trees in the Golden Gate Park at old and new plants should have been planted in an orderly manner years ago. The trees that are there no one cares about. The gardeners have low morale and there is NO accountability.

In the Southeast Sectors we have over 400 toxic hotspots and Mayor Gavin Newsom is not abating these areas.

However, he is permitting San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to take over huge tracts of land over 2,500 acres calling it a Project Area with real possibilities of taking it over using Emminent Domain.

Huge areas that are toxic are being capped and proposed for housing.

Our land, water, and air is more polluted today in San Francisco then it ever was. This land stolen from the Ohlone was pristine but we today do not respect Mother Earth:

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Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy