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Delgado, Adriana
From:Richard Schmidt <slobuild@yahoo.com>
Sent:Monday, October
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Agenda Correspondence Night Use general comment
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Oct. 18, 2021
Dear Council Members,
The earth and life on it teeter in the balance. Humans have become so adept at manipulating the earth for their own
pleasure and convenience that calamity awaits.
No, I’m not talking about the climate catastrophe caused by GHG releases. That is common physics, we all acknowledge
it, and yet we as a city can figure out little more to do than tilting at windmills.
Meanwhile, despite the verbal histrionics of politicians the city continues business as usual (tree cutting, huge
unnecessary carbon-releasing municipal construction projects that lock us into more of the same in the future, designing a
city that locks in vehicular traffic as the best transportation, failing to mandate buildings that capture “free” energy and
don’t need to be grid dependent for everything, etc.).
Lost in all of this is the extinction crisis – the vast destruction of life on earth due to our callous disregard for others. With
the future of millions of species hanging in the balance, the City Council can be on the right side of history, or it can be
part of the problem.
The permanent implementation of night use of San Luis Mountain is part of the problem – one silly little human indulgence
that kills other species for no good reason.
The project’s Environmental Review would have you believe that local extinctions don’t matter. But they do. Every habitat
degradation, every local extinction matters. What is global extinction if not the sum of local extinctions? Is the convenience
of a few selfish people wanting night use legitimate justification for extinction?
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I think the answer is obvious. I hope it is equally obvious to you.
Be on the right side of history and kill this project.
Thank you.
Richard Schmidt
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