Green city for the future – Dagsavisen
My father once said that it is rude to give advice to people who have not asked for it. This is an exception.
The climate is right for it.
While we wait for environmental bureaucrats and politicians to discover that capital and market forces are not designed to solve our climate problems as quickly as necessary, it may be okay to take immediate, local action. The UN’s latest climate report calls for just that.
The consequences of increased rainfall in urban areas where the vast majority of us live must be considered as major challenges. Finans Norge reports claims payments of DKK 30 billion after weather and natural disasters in 2020. Claims-related conditions to precipitation increase in number.
[ Om få år vil det bli for mange lærere her til lands ]
This agrees with the meteorologists’ predictions: Violent build-up of thunder clouds, best exemplified in Copenhagen 2 July 2011: A single giant cloud (Cumulus congestus pileus) drowned the city center with 140 mm of precipitation during fire hours. The normal is 740 mm per year! The insurance companies softened six billion kroner after eighty thousand claims. Men are all due to the cloud? No. The city has half the blame.
It must drink more. And slower.
Former environmental councilor Lan Marie Berg and the MDG / Labor city council promised in 2021 to plant one hundred thousand trees in ten years in Oslo, all within the construction zone. The logic is that trees should be very drinkable. On average, it costs twenty thousand kroner to buy, prepare and improve relevant growing conditions and plant a tree in a city. The budget is thus one hundred million kroner.
Now there are only eight years left, and as far as I know, only a few thousand trees have been planted.
[ Har forsket på medieskandaler med kvinnelige politikere: Dette er dommen over Hadia-saken ]
Here are 17 suggestions for progress in the case:
Drop the promise to plant 100,000 trees within the construction zone in ten years (or eight remaining). Trees age almost linearly. If 100,000 trees are planted within such a short time frame, in a hundred years or so, some poor urban gardener will be chased out of the city because he begins to drop the old, fragile trees before they fall on people at about the same time. Such a plant model belongs to the clear-cutting strategy in forestry. The nail in the coffin: There is no room for a hundred thousand trees within the construction zone in Oslo. Finished talking!
We now have one hundred million promised kroner in our environmental account, which can be spread over eight years.
2. Tear up asphalt and other solid surfaces wherever possible in the city, and preferably a little more. Remove crushed stone and spills. Fill in suitable amounts of self-produced compost soil. Plant one million seedlings, preferably perennials, which reappear year after year and require minimal operation. Just as the ability of plant areas to absorb water is immediate, indmari much cheaper than pipes, nicer than the asphalt, cleans the air more efficiently than trees and drinks enormously much more. From the first day.
[ Gunhild Stordalen: – Det var kulturkrasj i stor skala da jeg møtte Petter (+) ]
Give a subsidy of x kroner per square meter to everyone who wants to implement this, for example half of the investment need, so that it is given x kroner for the replacement of old, damp smoke ovens.
Budget: 50 million. Now there are 150 million left.
The vast majority of Oslo’s parks and their aging tree population are the result of more than a hundred-year-old redevelopment works of the city. The parks are not drained either, most of them are built on natural land. Remove lawn wherever possible, and preferably a little more. Plant something else that drinks more.
Budget: NOK 50 million. Well, it’s 100 million kroner again.
4. Disposal models New Public Management belongs to: On the rubbish heap, not for recycling, but for destruction. Restore Oslo Parkvesen, considered a central urban gardener, divide the city into sensible administrative areas, or clutter as we called them before they withered by the NPM poison.
Budget first year: NOK 50 million. Further operation is otherwise something other than an investment budget. Well, it’s 50 million again.
[ Da Sissel Gran var i 30-åra, kom en uvøren badboy: – Jeg kjente «dette går ikke, dette går ikke, dette går ikke» (+) ]
5. Expand Oslo’s tree nursery on the fields in Sørkedalen to fivefold. Hire five nursery gardeners, and renew the machinery which was probably bought at a flea market in 1972. Buy in a thousand small trees of all kinds, with open eyes so that more of unknown species will thrive in a coming warmer climate. Plant them in 2030 in parks between aging trees that are about to die. Continued with the models until the year 2200 – and beyond.
Budget first year: NOK 25 million. Well, that’s 25 million again.
6-16. Choose additional initiatives for DKK 25 million. It’s a jungle of choices. Just ask a park gardener.
17. Exceeding the investment budget by half a corresponding percentage of the average of all other municipal overruns in recent years.
Voila: A climate adaptation of in place for eight years while we wait for politicians and bureaucrats to discover that the market they believe in is not acting as quickly as necessary.
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