In Princeton, a powerful commission for preserving historic buildings faces climate realities. Cue the absurdist theater of watching good people lurch between procedural rules and common sense.
In our guy Steve’s place, I’d kidnap every last board member, tie them all up to a post in my basement and wait for the next flood. We’d see how fast the permit approvals would come rolling in….
Ms. Bird, I like your can-do attitude toward the climate emergency! In truth though, it's not the committee members who should be put in the basement but the process. The commissioners are hamstrung by rules designed for a different time, so they can't really do anything other than what they were set up to do. I imagine so much of climate adaptation is stuck in bureaucratic systems like these!
In our guy Steve’s place, I’d kidnap every last board member, tie them all up to a post in my basement and wait for the next flood. We’d see how fast the permit approvals would come rolling in….
Ms. Bird, I like your can-do attitude toward the climate emergency! In truth though, it's not the committee members who should be put in the basement but the process. The commissioners are hamstrung by rules designed for a different time, so they can't really do anything other than what they were set up to do. I imagine so much of climate adaptation is stuck in bureaucratic systems like these!