Harvey J. Miller
@mobileharv.bsky.social
Sustainable mobility scholar, advocate and practitioner. Reusche endowed Chair, Professor of Geography and Director, Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), The Ohio State University. All opinions mine not theirs. https://u.osu.edu/miller.81/
The author compares data center opposition to railroad opposition in the 19th century. I think a better comparison is urban highways in the 20th century.
Data center panic is overblown. Job losses the price of coming innovation | Opinion
Every generation faces the same choice: Build the infrastructure that powers the next century, or let fear of disruption preserve the past.
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“If built as planned, the gas burning plants — scattered across states including Texas, Ohio and Wyoming — could release as much planet-warming pollution in a year as roughly half of all the passenger vehicles in the United States.”
Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution (Gift Article)
nytimes.com
As usual, well-said by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. Summer as we knew it is over. What do we do moving forward?
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Cincinnati has developed a Climate Migration Readiness Plan to absorb as many as 525,000 newcomers by 2050. It calls for building much denser housing, expanding public transit and decreasing the city’s reliance on fossil fuels.
A City With a Plan (Gift Article)
Cincinnati wants to take in people fleeing climate disasters. Plus, the latest on fires in Europe.
nytimes.com
Read and share this primer on the climate crisis
The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof (Gift Article)
Definitive answers to the big questions.
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More highways will not help. It hasn’t worked for the past century; it won’t help now. We need rail not more lanes.
ODOT has picked a new route connecting U.S. 23 and I-71
The Ohio Department of Transportation shared some new information on the potential U.S. 23 and Interstate 71 connector route July 30.
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Research shows that bike lanes make roads safer not only for cyclists but also pedestrians and drivers. The administration is choosing ro make everyone less safe when they travel.
US push to defund ‘DEI bike lanes’ will make roads less safe, advocates say
Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets
theguardian.com
Respect to OG quantitative geographers! Here is a geovisualization of migration fields on a polar projection centered on Asby, Sweden, from a 1957 report by the great Prof. Torsten Hägerstrand. There are dozens of these hand drawn maps in the report. Citation below
Science is always open to alternative explanations, but the evidence points to an animal spillover. Among other things, there is a strong the geographical association to the seafood market of origin but not to the lab. www.npr.org/2026/07/29/g...
Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19
The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in.
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Morning Bluesky This is correct, by Paul Krugman: “1.2 million Americans died from Covid — a number that would have been much lower if MAGA misinformation hadn’t caused so many people to refuse vaccination” See: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/2 paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...
Reality is a Communist Plot
Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset
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Apparently the new parking garage at the redesigned Dulles airport will be the largest parking garage in the world with 32,000 spaces. The current record holder is the West Edmonton Mall, with 20,000 spaces, 10,000 in an overflow lot. 🎉🎉🎉 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
Update from Karoun Demirjian
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Ohio is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.
In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground (Gift Article)
The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.
nytimes.com
More than 155 scientists, physicians and public health advocates have called for an end to what they describe as the “vilification and harassment of many American scientists” by the Trump administration and its allies.
Trump administration needs to stop ‘public harassment’ of Fauci and scientists, open letter says
Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of ‘waging a war on individual scientists’
theguardian.com
New GAO report examines how driver blind spots endanger pedestrians and cyclists—and asks why USDOT has done nothing about it. www.gao.gov/products/gao...
Umm, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social …? He’s right, you know - those big SUVs are killers.
Trump Joins War On Cars, Tells Mary Barra 'I'm Not Sure I Want To Get Hit By One Of Your Silverados' - Jalopnik
If you were worried that was the weirdest thing Trump said at his rally at GM's Milford Proving Ground, don't be.
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“We’re seeing the bifurcation of global energy systems. You have the U.S. and Japan on one side sticking to fossil fuel legacy, and the renewables case led by China that is growing at a rapid rate.”
Iran War Forces Energy Buyers to ‘Unshackle’ From Global Markets (Gift Article)
Developing Asian nations, scarred by Middle East supply shocks, are working to scale back their reliance on imported fuels, including liquefied natural gas.
nytimes.com
So glad that @thewaroncars.bsky.social have a good impression of Columbus! We have our challenges, but we have passion and growth. Keep your eye on the Cbus! Check out their remarks at 43:30
Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation@ccdot.bsky.social · 2w agoHuge congratulations to @transitcolumbus.org and @mobileharv.bsky.social to their work with @thewaroncars.bsky.social during their book tour and the well deserved shout out on the book tour review! The Columbus section starts around 44 min into the ep. sites.libsyn.com/132228/final...
Huge congratulations to @transitcolumbus.org and @mobileharv.bsky.social to their work with @thewaroncars.bsky.social during their book tour and the well deserved shout out on the book tour review! The Columbus section starts around 44 min into the ep. sites.libsyn.com/132228/final...
The War on Cars: Final Dispatches from Book Tour
Our final Life After Cars book tour roundup episode is here, with our reports from Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, Montréal, Orlando, Portland, Maine, and many, many more great North American cities! We ge...
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