And the next morning, the leaves were falling off. This blight ruined the 3.6 million rubber trees from Ford's plantations by the early 1940s, turning it into a disaster.
And the next morning, the leaves were falling off. The blight is so fatal to rubber trees, they can't grow in plantations in their native country.
Two blocks over used to look just like this. The city labeled it blight , got it torn down. Now we have the new Taco John's drive-through.
We were thrilled about this switch, right? We got rid of blight . We got rid of something that was old and blighted .
But in the '50s, there was a great-- for a hundred years, 1850 to 1950, there was an incredible banana being shipped all over the world out of South America. There was a blight . And that species was killed.
And that species was killed. And they found a blight resistant cultivar banana called the Cavendish. And that's the banana that we've eaten, I believe, since 1962.
What if those youth whose lives are marked by turmoil and difficulty were plausibly heirs to the brightest, most creative futures? What if seemingly blighted and troubled childhoods could give way under conditions of encouragement and support to adulthoods bearing, not simply normal lives and passable achievement, but deep, rich relationships and an inspired accomplishment?
And for some reason out of my mouth came I am a Jewish man. Now that you've solved the blight of paper ballots, what do you think are the largest issues facing the industry for the next five, 10 years?
99% of the bananas in the world that are eaten-- sorry, in the West are Cavendish bananas. Well now there's a Cavendish banana blight , one that's so bad that the global banana conference was moved from its location in Costa Rica this year to Miami because they didn't want people being exposed to bad bananas or some people trying to smuggle other species.
The mothers and I discuss one child's cold and how fast the rest of us are likely to catch it. We commiserate about the latest pinkeye blight . We talk about one child who wakes up in the night and celebrate the quantum leap another little girl made with her drawing skills after discovering chalk pastels.
The mothers and I discuss one child's cold, and how fast the rest of us are likely to catch it. We commiserate about the latest pinkeye blight . We talk about one child who wakes up in the night, and celebrate the quantum leap another little girl made with her drawing skills after discovering
they just go somewhere else. Because all garbage and patches of blighted land are fungible. And so they just go find somewhere else to try out their experiment.
Now I also believe that TIF's should be created for what was originally intended and that is to spur economic activity in blighted areas. We haven't done that. A lot of TIF dollars have gone into the downtown area and so the Mercantile Exchange got something like $15 million and Boeing and others have gotten money.
And the next morning, the leaves were falling off. - The trees were infected by the South American leaf blight , a fungus native to South America.
People with Parkinsonian, indeed, begin to walk like robots. But a great drama in his life was the blight of his existence that he was gay.
And I had 100% confidence in the idea that we would grow specialty produce and grow it locally and get it to chefs as fresh as possible. Any land that belongs to the city-- we clean up blight .
And that is that, I've discovered that in the nonprofit world, great ideas don't receive quite the reception they receive in the for-profit world. And imagine if there was a drought or a blight , and every garden in America died, nothing was harvested that year, are we a success,
We got rid of blight . We got rid of something that was old and blighted . We got something that was shiny and new.
Here's what nobody bothered to consider. That old, blighted , rundown block has a total value of $1.1 million. That shiny and new one-- it's the same size area, the same amount of public infrastructure, the same essential cost to the community, but at a value of only $600,000.
Understand what you're looking at. That old, blighted , rundown block, that traditional development pattern, that kind of constrained way that we had built for thousands and thousands of years, in its infant phase, after almost a century of decline and neglect, still outperforms financially the stuff
And the next morning, the leaves were falling off. - And to this day, there is no cure for the leaf blight .
And the next morning, the leaves were falling off. Over 90% comes from Asia which is why it is so essential to prevent the spread of the leaf blight to Southeast Asia.
But it's a place that struggles deeply. If you go to Buffalo, the decline, the blight , the despair can be overwhelming at times. Buffalo has lost population every single year since the end of World War II, including last year.
And I really was very excited about it because essentially, the principal tenant of it was to deal with homeless housing in New York and to use design to really talk about how do you integrate-- homeless housing usually is seen as a blight on communities, people don't want to have it near their homes because they think it devalues their property, there's all this kind of stigma with the communities
And that manifested itself in our neighborhood and new art studios popping up all over the place, new restaurants, lots of excitement. Renaissance areas in downtown that had been honestly blight for many years are now being redeveloped. At the same time, it was a little weird because we live on a nice, residential street.
People with Parkinsonian, indeed, begin to walk like robots. And at the time I met him he had been celibate for 15 years, and would talk about it being the blight of his life.
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. And that had a gene from wheat pasted into the gene of the chestnut tree because it was suffering from a particular type of blight that
They shop. But you have block upon block upon block upon block upon block of some of the worst blight in America,
there. And I was surprised how this forest survived when all else around it is just a blight zone. I mean everything else is just blitzed.
then the Bay area. It's one of the most depressed regions in the country, schools are terrible, there's blight , there's all kinds of really challenging issues there but there are lots
And the next morning, the leaves were falling off. How many more millions of acres would've, in effect, been killed or seriously compromised by these two leaf blights ?
all the necessary reforms to a TIF process would be a mistake in my view. In addition to that, TIF's are for blighted economic communities that are struggling. We have to shut down