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I got an email recently from a resident expressing concern about the environmental impacts of building more housing. He writes: “The construction of thousands of new housing units takes enormous resources: cement, lumber, sheetrock, glass, tiles, roofing materials, etc., and each unit will have to be equipped with domestic essentials, so we need 6,000 stoves, […]

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Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of...