https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/berkeley-enrollment-climate-crisis.html To conserve anything close to the climate we’ve had, we need to build as we’ve never built before, electrifying everything and constructing the green energy infrastructure to generate that electricity cleanly. As the climate writer Julian Brave NoiseCat once put it to me , “If you want to stand athwart the history of emissions and yell ‘stop,’ you need to do really transformational things.” That’s where the environmental victories of yesteryear have become the obstacles of this year. Too many of the tactics and strategies and statutes are designed to stop transformational, or even incremental, projects from happening. Modest expansions to affordable housing or bus service are forced to answer for their environmental impact. But the status quo doesn’t have to win any lawsuits or fill out any forms to persist. “The problem is a bunch of the regulatory law doesn’t penaliz...