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<div><font face="Georgia" size="-5">Excerpt: "The Supreme
Court got the big picture on climate and sprawl development exactly
right," said an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, in
a statement. The center filed suit under the California Environmental
Quality Act. The building industry has long warned that CEQA was
slowing the construction of housing and infrastructure. Clearly, their
warnings were correct, as this lawsuit targeted a project that
opponents view as "sprawl."</font></div>
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The justices agreed with the "sprawl causes climate change"
argument. "Finally, one should not assume a sizeable new housing
development planned for a site relatively far from major urban
centers, to be built largely on undeveloped land with habitat for
several sensitive species, will have comparatively minor impacts
either on greenhouse gas emissions or on fish and wildlife," wrote
Justice Kathryn Werdegar for the majority.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Georgia" size="-5">If Californians aren't going to
be housed in suburban-style neighborhoods, how will they live? The
answer, many environmentalists say, is infill neighborhoods -
smaller, high-density and apartment complexes shoehorned into existing
urban areas, where residents can rely more on public transit rather
than on automobiles.</font></div>
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>http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/07/newhall-ranch-h<span
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"The most
painful and expensive way to deal with global climate change will be
to ignore it until something happens that elicits powerful public
demands for immediate and Draconian action."<br>
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Jonathan Lash. <br>
"As the earth heats up. " <br>
<i>Journal of Commerce </i> August 16, 1996.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Š the race
between climate dynamics and climate policy will be a close one
Š." and " Š requires an industrial revolution for
sustainability starting now." </font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Hans Joachim
Schellenhuber.<br>
Global warming: Stop worrying, start panicking?</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences</i> September 23, 2008 vol.
105 no. 38</font></div>
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