by Nathalie Graham
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Apr 30, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Only three mayoral candidates have laid out specific climate platforms so far. COURTESY OF THE FARRELL, HARRELL, AND HOUSTON CAMPAIGNS
As a planet, we're hurtling toward certain climate destruction. In Seattle, we're nowhere close to meeting our goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
Jenny Durkan, the self-proclaimed "climate mayor," has done little to move the needle on green policies. If the council hadn't made changes to her proposed budget, Durkan would have cut funding for Seattle's Green New Deal oversight board, stalling Green New Deal policy priorities until 2022. She hasn't fulfilled the entirety of the Move Seattle Levy, the sweeping transportation infrastructure plan voters passed in 2015. In fact, she actively fucked up one part of the Levy when she sided with the NIMBY's along 35th Avenue NE and killed sorely needed protected bike lanes.