With the county’s adoption of the Climate Action Plan , I look forward to 3,000 new trees for canopy during heat waves. I am also curious to see what county staff recommends to put the brakes on new oil and gas exploration. As long as staff is taking another peek at the plan , let’s rip out page six, which celebrates a partnership with Uplift California and REACH , a collaborative for aerospace expansion: private jets, surveillance satellites, bombs, and billionaire space tourism.
Talk about climate destroyers!
A private jet can emit two tons of carbon dioxide in an hour — equivalent to a few months of the average person's emissions. Falcon 9 rockets that launch Elon Musk's surveillance satellites at Vandenberg are fueled by kerosene and burn large amounts of propellant that can destroy the ozone layer. Billionaire blast-offs, $450,000 for a four-minute spit into space, emit black carbon into the stratosphere.