Editor:

Is San Francisco an environmental city? It pretends to be.

The verbiage from government and its well-connected elites is present. Yet, current policy prioritizes the disaster that is AI, the fraud of energy-intensive cyber ”currency,” and the distasteful LED lights on buildings. Glaring strings of LED lights that deface our streets, making them appear as if the businesses that line them are  beckoning bordellos. Atrociously, a diesel-guzzling gigantic Ferris wheel was placed in the middle of the Concourse. The soccer fields at Ocean Beach are now gaudily illuminated by anti-environmental floodlights and covered with environmentally hazardous astroturf. Huge, overpriced fenced-off concerts in the western end of the park render it unusable for humans and creatures big and small for months at a time. City Hall is illuminated with garish nighttime lighting. Fighter jets, symbols of death and destruction (as well as being massive consumers of fuel), strafe our city every October. Still, environmental consciousness concerning all of these depredations stands at zero. Very few San Franciscans understand what an ecosystem is, let alone our connection with it.

But the latest development really takes the cake! The San Francisco Botanical Garden Society (now corporate branded as “The Gardens of Golden Gate Park”)  is putting gaudy LED lights on a “mile” of trees in Strybing Arboreum (now commercially promoted as the “botanical gardens”).  They are charging outrageous sums of money to gullible individuals to enter. As control of the Tea Garden, Arboretum and Conservatory have been handed over to these carpetbaggers, there is no way to fight this. Please tell everyone: Boycott this, so this atrocity will not become an annual event!

Harry S. Pariser