i read a book by jeremy rifkin, and i have been working on this a long time, and it is obvious that we need to declare an emergency, that is a no-brainer. it is something that every city on earth needs to do, and so it's good that this resolution is coming forward from the supervisors and from you all, but i do want to talk about implementation because that's crucial. if we declare an emergency and don't implement our response properly, we could get into trouble, and a good example is james hansen himself, the man who warned us all in the mid- eighties about the climate crisis, about global warning. he is so caught up with the fact that this is an emergency that he promotes nuclear power, so how we choose to respond to the emergency is just as important as declaring it, and so first i want to agree with the folks who spoke for the trees, and say we have to do that, that is crucial we need this. we can start by not cutting down 15,000 trees at sharp park, and this department saying to the recreation and park department, no, you don't. so the bigger issue i want to talk about is somethin