With plans finally progressing for a new bridge to replace the existing one, proponents are calling for the old bridge to be transformed into a park with a walkway instead of being torn down.
Joseph Vranich, a former Amtrak executive and a leading proponent of developing new public-private compacts to replace Amtrak and build a system of high-speed rail lines that will strategically link to the nation's air-travel system, says not so fast.
But he has had to endure a different kind of commentary lately: "elitist," proponent of eat-the-poor cannibalism, and schemer to replace the city's democracy with an imperious House of Lords government.
In answering such questions, proponents of weak sustainability argue that it is acceptable to replace natural capital with human-made capital provided that the latter has equivalent functions.
One way to overcome this would be to replace the warheads with newer designs that, proponents argue, would not need to be live-tested in this way.
Beyond this state and city level, how voters vote on drug policy will also send a strong message to the Obama administration as it considers candidates to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, arguably the strongest proponent for fixing America's broken drug policies to ever hold the office.
So, ironically, the adoption of EBM by the scientific community was not based on evidence but on authoritative knowledge, precisely the type of approach EBM was meant to replace, a point recently acknowledged by one of its key proponents, Sackett himself [ 46].
Recall proponents are vowing to spend as much as $20 million to dump Mr. Davis, and the potential candidates to replace him may spend millions more.
Over the last two years, as prices have soared, proponents of the Peak Oil theory which argues that we will soon pass the point of being able to replace reserves as fast as they are consumed have resurfaced in force.
There are many ways of describing the alternative visions offered to us in a year like this; but describing one of them as un-American and its proponent as a foreign intruder is not to further discussion but to foreclose it and to replace the contest of ideas with the rhetoric of demonization.
