Hoa Pantastico, mathematically speaking, if everybody in Kent (the 216th largest city in America with a population about 1% of the top two largest cities in America combined)  dropped dead today (about as many people as die in America every couple of weeks), so that they consumed zero additional materials and energy,  and the carbon in their bodies was prevented from entering the atmosphere, it would make no measurable difference in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, and even with the most hysterical interpretation of CO2 climate forcing, no difference in the climate of King County, Washington, North America or the world, ever.   I think whoever is mayor of Kent should spend time on issues on which the mayor can have an actual impact.