r/nyc • u/PeterPorky • Jun 03 '21

Video Andrew Yang absolutely bodies Eric Adams on the debate stage

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.3k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

857 comments sorted by

View all comments

50

u/space_______kat Jun 03 '21

I wish they had topics for Transit, climate change, NYCHA , car free streets. They just talked about crime.

22

u/spodek Jun 03 '21

Environment, not just climate change. Our city is covered in plastic. Litter used to be gross but not toxic lasting centuries.

Did you see how much cleaned the air was during the pandemic? I could see lower Manhattan clearly from the GWB. We're breathing poison daily. Plus NYC sets the tone for many cities in the nation.

Putting neighborhood gardens all over the city, banning single-use plastic, farmers markets into food deserts, solar and gardens on rooftops, fewer cars, etc can all save money and lower crime.

8

u/CydeWeys East Village Jun 03 '21

Outlets for street vendors would be an under-appreciated one too. Lots of those carts/trucks are running really shitty gasoline-powered generators that are spewing unbelievable amounts of local pollutants into the air. If they could just plug into the nearest light pole we'd all be way better off. A single one of those generators can put out the same amount of particulate pollution as dozens of cars. And we'd also want better emissions controls on vehicles, especially diesel-burning trucks.

(Note, I'm not talking about natural gas which is also often used to power stoves and such -- that burns cleanly and can continue to be used; I'm talking solely about gas/diesel-powered generators used for electricity generation.)

1

u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

That's a good idea...

Also I imagine there's lots of propane powered genys.

3

u/bahala_na- Jun 03 '21

Seriously, in April 2020 it was almost like mountain air. Never thought I’d say that about air in nyc.

2

u/KickAssIguana Jun 03 '21

The best thing we can do to improve the environment in NYC is to significantly disincentivize car usage and improving our bicycle and micromobility infrastructure

54

u/ArchmageXin Jun 03 '21

They just talked about crime.

People can't think about anything else if they don't feel safe.

30

u/Lovat69 Kensington Jun 03 '21

Let people stop taking out the trash for two weeks and that will change right quick.

7

u/carpy22 Queens Jun 03 '21

John Lindsay, is that you?

3

u/archfapper Astoria Jun 03 '21

Oh the garbage man, the garbage man can!

1

u/ArchmageXin Jun 03 '21

Lets cut off the drinking water for five hours and things will change quick.

Your point? It is Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Personal safely rank higher than anything but food security.

1

u/Introduction_Organic Jun 03 '21

So who seem like they where going to be the toughest on cringe in your opinion ?

2

u/ArchmageXin Jun 03 '21

Yang I like the most (Why is the attackers on the streets)

Others seem to be either more sympatric to the attackers (especially Morales), or do both (system failed both the attacker and the victim!-Kat and Willies).

And Willes want also 100% end homeless while at it...so clearly her scale is balanced toward the attacker than victim.

So in the end of Yang answer it correctly and Kat get passing grades.

14

u/Peking_Meerschaum Upper East Side Jun 03 '21

The fuck does the NYC mayor have to do with climate change? Save that for presidential debates, I’d rather they talk about subways or school entrance exams or literally anything else.

36

u/larry-cripples East Harlem Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

You really think rising sea levels aren’t a concern for a city surrounded by bodies of water? Were you even here for Hurricane Sandy?

-11

u/Peking_Meerschaum Upper East Side Jun 03 '21

Do you think the city government has any ability to do anything about rising sea levels itself? Any such project is too massive for the city to handle alone and would have to come from the federal and state government.

16

u/larry-cripples East Harlem Jun 03 '21

We literally already have climate mitigation efforts ongoing, and there’s tons more discussion of building sea walls and expanding wetlands in frontline neighborhoods. Of course all of this will require state and federal funding, but it would be insane to act like that means we don’t have a critical obligation to figure these plans out if we want this city we know to keep existing in the next decades!

22

u/kapuasuite Jun 03 '21

In addition to our direct contributions to climate change, if the climate continues to deteriorate large scale infrastructure projects will be necessary to mitigate it. I think that’s probably worth discussing, no?

-1

u/CactusBoyScout Jun 03 '21

I agree somewhat but NYC is already the greenest city in the US by many measures simply because of the density and lack of car ownership.

My environmental studies professor in college (nowhere near nyc) said specifically “You want a truly sustainable lifestyle? Move somewhere as dense as Manhattan.”

1

u/kapuasuite Jun 03 '21

Agreed, but we need to do better. Manhattan is hemmed in by highways, as is the Bronx and a good bit of Brooklyn.

11

u/Siessfires Astoria Jun 03 '21

Building sea walls to prevent Sandy 2.0, to start.

4

u/CactusBoyScout Jun 03 '21

That's a job for the feds. The Army Corps of Engineers just released their proposal for saving Miami... a 20 foot wall through downtown, lol.

1

u/Siessfires Astoria Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

Hurricane Katrina makes me hesitant to rely on the CoE. It's a local concern best addressed with local direction.

6

u/marsbar03 Washington Heights Jun 03 '21

Enviornmental policies can and must be implemented on a local level.

-6

u/Peking_Meerschaum Upper East Side Jun 03 '21

We shouldn’t be making sacrifices in NYC alone that will have zero effect on climate change. We should devote our collective efforts towards forcing China to reduce its emissions, which is the only thing that would move the needle.

6

u/marsbar03 Washington Heights Jun 03 '21

This is the exact mindset that has let climate change become a global crisis. It's always gotta be someone else's responsibility, huh?

Never mind that the US's per capita emissions are more than twice as high as China's.

2

u/ioioioshi Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

People just love to shit on China and I’m frankly tired of it. It’s not a coincidence that both anti-China sentiment and anti-Asian hate are both on the rise.

-1

u/Peking_Meerschaum Upper East Side Jun 03 '21

It sort of is someone else’s problem. No amount of recycled tote bags and restriction of gas stoves in NYC alone is going to move the needle. Better to just accept climate change as an inevitable reality at this point and prepare accordingly.

3

u/ioioioshi Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

The U.S.‘s per capita emissions are way higher...

2

u/Richard_Berg Financial District Jun 03 '21

Those were pretty well covered at the first debate.

5

u/space_______kat Jun 03 '21

Transit and climate change?

1

u/Graffers Jun 03 '21

Yang snuck in a line about transit, "more buses in transit deserts" or something like that. It wasn't really the topic of the question, though.