'The vast majority of the South Bronx has no tree cover, and that absence—coupled with asphalt everywhere—nurtures heat pockets that compound air pollution.'
a plan"to provide 100,000+ people access to a public waterfront that, for decades, has been inaccessible."
Activists are also working to offset the incredible environmental damage that comes from the heavy daily traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway, where the rumblings of 300 diesel trucksThey're pushing for an ambitious project that"would add a deck on top of below-grade sections of the Cross Bronx Expressway, with filtered vents to scrub exhaust,"Atop the deck, under the project plan, would be a green park—a project akin to others in cities like Boston, Dallas, and Seattle.
Building out such an effort, analysts believe, would cost $750 million. Too ambitious? Maybe not. New York City, ForbesThe city's 107 billionaire residents have a combined net worth of $640 billion. A 1-percent annual wealth tax on that combined fortune would raise over eight times the cost of the proposed cap-the-Cross-Bronx-Expressway project in just one year.
If rising inequality can drive climate change, then closing those gaps can help reverse it—in New York and anywhere else.
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