Panaceas - Real and Phony - for the City of the Angels, CityWatchLA, August 30, 2018
By Dick Platkin PLATKIN ON PLANNING-According to the State of California’s latest climate studies , LA’s recent heat waves are not the new normal. Facebook Twitter Google+ Share Rather, they are just a small step toward much more dangerous levels of climate change that include sea level rise, crop failures, tree die offs, intense storms, and heat waves, all leading to increased human mortality. When these real threats are combined with other ones, also of our own making, especially proliferating homelessness and homeless encampments, it is clear that City Hall’s ho-hum, business-as-usual approach is moving in the wrong direction. Given this combination of dire trends, we should not be surprised that miracle cures are tossed around like free samples at Costco, even when they are patently ridiculous. The ridiculous panacea. Shoring up the ridiculous is the claim of the real estate sector, echoed by its advocates in academia, city governm