OP you’re the one that brought up climate change, bearing powerlines wouldn’t just be expensive but it would generate a great deal of pollution. All that digging is done by gas and diesel powered vehicles. Plus I looked it up, the old above ground lines cannot be repurposed for underground usage since they give off heat so you’re talking about scrapping all the powerlines in the state. Yes it would get recycled but recycling isn’t free, removing, transporting and recycling the lines burns fossil fuels. So your plan to future proof for climate change worsens climate change.

The recent statewide power outages we’re wild and yes most of it could’ve been avoided with buried power lines. But I kept track of the outages and 99% of the state had its power restored within three days, my house took two. And talking to people have been here longer than me this doesn’t seem like a common problem where half of the houses in the state lose power. This state doesn’t have a lot of money and burying powerlines cost several times more than above ground powerlines so that expense is going to get passed on to the average citizen to solve for an in frequent and very short term problem.

Nope, problem is there is only one hallway that can connect the north and south terminal and that hallway includes the old observation tower. Rerouting the hallway would require a new hallway going through what is currently a closed restaurant space turned into storage, a break room and some offices. It would be a poor use of space and a waste of money. BTV is a bizarre hodgepodge of additions and none of them make a lot of sense, for example a passenger walking down the hallway toward the north terminal has to pass through an unmarked doorway and immediately go left through another unmarked doorway to enter the north concourse by gate 8. there are plans to modernize the airport and hopefully the modernization project will remove some of the jank.

The old observation tower is only accessible after security, that hallway is the only way to route passengers to the north terminal. If you’re familiar with the layout of the building there would be no simple nor inexpensive fix.

Your plan is going to at best result in a huge bill for towing and could kill you. Dumb.

People don’t tend to beat their spouses or go on crime sprees because they smoked some pot, hell it’s safer than booze.

I was a husky kid and and roughly the size of an average man around 10-11. my dad told me to just limp out if someone tried to grab me. Thanks dad.

You talk about adapting to the changing planet but we can’t, climate change is not a benefit. You talked about climate change opening up parts of the world for agriculture but you’re making a big assumption that those areas are suitable for agriculture. The reality is we are fucked on a global scale the upside is New England is projected to be one of the better places to ride it out. That said if you have land preparing for the future would be a good idea, get some fruit and nut trees in the ground if you don’t already have some and get a big garden going. I don’t know about you but the price of produce is becoming problematic so I produce my own.

Your ignorance is astounding and I’m sad to say I’ve seen a lot of it in the state. seems like something that comes about when people live isolated and don’t see outside of their own little town.

I’ll try to make this simple for you, climate change means a very large amount of people are going to die in the next few decades and it also means things like food and fuel are going to become extremely expensive. Probably a lot more expensive than you can afford. You should not welcome the coming apocalypse but you’re a woodchuck so yeah.

Manufacturing what exactly? It’s not like manufacturing jobs are high paying and the locals are likely to resist because of environmental impacts.

I see two slightly snowy days projected in the next ten days around Chittenden County. So we’ll maybe have 1-2” of snow by Jan. 15th. That’s not normal.

You don’t understand what you’re describing, we aren’t coming out of an Ice Age we’re seeing a global temperature increase that is leading to crop losses, drought and ecological destruction. The planet is more than warm enough as it is.

I’ve said it a few times but my fruit trees didn’t drop their leaves until a month after I expected and started trying to grow new ones fairly recently, that’s terrible for them.

Except they won’t, there’s no business or industry that will replace the ski industry. The warmer it gets and the less snow we get the less jobs associated with snow.

You don’t seem to understand that you may be more comfortable with warm winters but it will be devastating for the ecosystem. The plants and animals in the state have adapted to usual weather patterns and the severe disruption in those weather patterns is something they can’t adapt to in a few years. Warm winters means that ticks don’t die off so they proliferate and this will lead to mass die offs of pretty much everything in the forest. Trees are confused as fuck, my fruit trees didn’t drop their leaves until super late in the season and then started trying to grow new ones because of how warm it’s been. That stresses the trees and that’s dangerous.

It is wrong, people don’t like to talk about climate change but it staring us right in the face. People focus too much on the global warming aspect of climate change when warming is only one facet, with climate change comes bizarre weather patterns. We got no snow, Buffalo sees dozens of deaths from 8 foot snow drifts. Europe and China suffer drought leading to Sirius crop losses this year, Pakistan gets hit with so much rain that a third of the country was underwater. For reference an area the size of Texas or France since they’re roughly equivalent flooded in Pakistan. The Colorado river is almost dry and the US had serious crop losses all throughout the Midwest because of extreme heat and drought. Strap in, it’s going to get worse.

Climate change means we’re in for a wild future. At least our forests aren’t browning out like the west coast.

You know that chicken shit is good fertilizer right?

People don’t just have gardens and tanned livestock to save money, some people enjoy gardening and caring for animals.

Shipping containers are often contaminated with heavy metals, formaldehyde, fumigants. People often want to build a house out of one which is a really bad idea, I wouldn’t put livestock in one either.

Burlington is already trying to pass some gun free zone bullshit which will accomplish nothing because criminals don’t heed no gun signs. I do they’re rare in the state but the few times a business has had a sign I didn’t go in if I was carrying. Likewise I wouldn’t carry on to somebody’s bro, I respect property rights. Criminals obviously do not and it’s not like people are getting prosecuted for crimes.

Says the two month old account. People can have opposing viewpoints. I’m all for progressivism regarding how we treat criminals, the prison should focus on helping people instead of punishing them, teaching them real job skills and giving them mental health treatment. but people who commit crimes need to go to prison and the profoundly mentally ill need to be in humane treatment facilities.

All day is hilarious, I’ve talked about it maybe 2-3 times in the past 2 years. Keep pretending your fake progressive wonderland is going just fine. You don’t know what real progressivism is because your stuck in your bubble.

Burlington had 93 cops before the defund movement took off with a maximum of 100. That number dropped down to 60 at one point, nothing you say can invalidate this. And of course they’re having a hard time hiring when no cash bail means people commit crimes even violent crimes and a right back out on the street within a day to commit more crimes including violent crimes. I’ve talked to some Burlington police about this and they’ve been candid about how it feels to arrest criminals who get released within hours and go commit more crimes. A lot of them do genuinely care about their job and the community beyond they can’t get anything done.

What you’re saying is extremely disingenuous, the Burlington murder rate was higher than the city of Los Angeles murder rate in 2021 adjusting for population. It’s like saying that big cities have way more total car thefts than Burlington when Burlington is quite competitive for number of car thefts adjusting to population.