Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "How Lawyers Fight Climate Change" video.

So we create more heat islands and cut down more trees to build more cramped housing just to divide the pollution among more people. But the same absolute amount of carbon emissions exists. And this assumes that transit will expand to cover more area. In places like New York, D.C., and even Minneapolis, they would do it. In Louisville? No. I have lived here close to 12 years and of the 6 bus routes I enjoyed, 4 have been removed, and the 2 remaining have had their numbers of buses reduced by half. You might have a bus every fifteen minutes or half an hour in New York, but my routes have gone to over an hour from a prior wait of 45 minutes to an hour between buses. Public Transit MUST be increased for all states as part of rebuilding the infrastructure. Funding must be consistent. Route maps should connect citizens with commerce. We know where people live. We know where businesses are. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to create a good public transit for an entire city. The caveat here is to hire local engineers to create the systems. Louisvillians know Louisville. Cincinnatians do not. And Cincinnati's own self has a very poor system. How can they advise us?
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Louisville, KY is not anywhere close to having skyscrapers, but we have our downtown tall buildings. I lived in a building that received amazingly blazing sun from the Southeast in the morning that was not in the least mitigated except for a large Trane air conditioner in each apartment that could not have been energy efficient, and the sun shone directly on the A/C unit as well. My shades were always down as far as possible (would only cover half the window). If I could have, I would have shut out the entire sun it was so annoying, even in winter. Truly, those windows needed to be covered up. If it were up to me, I'd plaster that whole southeast side of the building with solar cells. Whether the rest of the building would provide light for solar cells or not, my side of the building needed drastic mitigation. Were it totally covered in solar cells, 2 things would happen: most of the solar radiation would be captured. 1 The radiation would be used to produce electricity, and 2 the sunlight would get nowhere close to the building. Infrared would not heat the building, and ultraviolet would not be reduced to give off infrared, and this would reduce the electricity need of the building. Electricity generated could be fed back into the building, and I'll bet that the building could pay its own electric bill for zero or low cost. Do this for all tall buildings everywhere.
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