From:            Sharla Dodd
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] [Possible Scam Fraud]Public comment RE: Port Meeting and Budget and Tax Levy Public Hearing
Date:              Sunday, November 8, 2020 4:56:47 PM

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Hello,
My name is Sharla Dodd and I am a resident of Seattle who has grown increasingly concerned about
climate change and it's imminent impact on our lives as citizens of the world, especially since I believe
that the onus is on us in developednations to limit our future contributions to climate change as the
developing world is disproportionately bearing the brunt of the fallout from our continued excesses.
Firstly, I want to ensure that the Port completes its Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) with a large
enough budget to include a full environmental review that takes into account the total climate impact of all
fuel uploaded at SEATAC. For example, the review must understand that: total aviation-caused climate
heating is 3 times that of CO2 alone, alternative methods of powering aircraft are either decades away or
unfeasible and thus cannot be cited as mitigating factors while calculating climate impact, and electric
planes are also still years from being realized and possibly multiple decades out from having any positive
impact on declining overall aviation emissions. In short, there are no technological advances that can help
us decrease aviation emissions in the near and not so near future, a fact that cannot be overlooked when
completing the SAMP. I also believe that we must consider the local impacts in the environmental
review.Immediate environmental impacts around SEATAC fall disproportionately on people of color and
those with low income, due to the higher proportion of people of color and low-income residents who live
nearby. Some alarming research has recently come out linking increased noise pollution to increased
cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as diminished learning in children.
I would also like to advocate for a change to RCW53 to specify that one purpose of the Port is to protect
environmental resources and climate, rather than accommodating all growth at the expense of all else.
And while I am aware that the Port supports a gas tax increase, this should apply to both highway
vehicles and aviation fuel at the same rate. Likewise the Port's support for sustainable airplane fuel, while
being a step in the right direction, falls short as SAF can provide at best a minor percentage of the fuel
needed at even present rates of flying. The only way we can reduce our state'sreliance on fossil fuels
and hope to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions is to reduce aviation, which should be a goal of ours as
Washingtonians and thus an explicitlystated goal of the Port of Seattle as well. The best way to support
state actions that promote climate change resilience is to reduce climate change in the first place.
Thank you for your time,
Sharla Dodd