Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws | Grist
The state is spending big on adapting to floods and rising seas, but Republicans don't want to name the cause.
What could go wrong it’s not like Florida is at any risk for damage from rising seas right!?!?? Right!?!?!?
They'll just blame it on wokeness
I told you people to not say gay and look what happened!!!
nah, the fundies are gonna have a field day with this one.
Rising seas aside, Florida has already been hit by some major hurricanes in recent years and hurricanes are predicted to just get worse with climate change.
DeSantis and anyone who follows him really are fools. Same with the Trump fans. Fools. There is no other way to put it nicer. I hope the smart people in Florida step up and make some noise, but they are probably busy moving out.
As far as I can tell, the trump supporters are several levels detached from reality. We can talk about their real grievances that led to them supporting trump initially, but that was the mile one, 800 miles in the rear view mirror.
It's such a missed opportunity. Climate change could be used as a blanket excuse for a boon in technology, construction, transport network development, urban redesign, an agricultural revolution and all the investment, tourism, etc that would come with that. Adapting our communities and ways of life toward a sustainable world could be an awesome process and something to celebrate. Any politician that sees this and runs with it will look like a hero for relatively little effort.
They wouldn't be heros to their donors, who have a lot invested (literally) in keeping things burning (also literally).
It's only fair. After all, climate change is going to erase Florida.
My first thought as well.
Reality kind of has this way of not giving a fuck about politics.
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Democrats need to begin to understand that even if they don't think they're at war, Republicans do. They should start fighting like it.
How did florida become a shithole btw? As a european for a long time i thought florida was a hotspot for queer culture.
From what I hear, it's left wing in the big cities, right wing everywhere else. And the electorates or whatever they call them are Gerrymandered so that the right wing areas have more voting power than the left wing. Basically the local government is doing everything they can to keep in power, shitty or not.
Don't quote me though. I'm an Aussie and it's only my probably biased opinion.
Vox did a decent video on how the Republicans came to power there in the past decade, since it was traditionally a purple state (50/50 for either party).
It's not. Yeah, we slipped right after voting for Obama twice, but we're far, far better off than the majority of red states. See: Mississippi, Louisianna, West Virginia, Oklahoma, well, about every one except Texas is worse off than us.
You hear a lot of shit about Florida for 3 reasons:
The free market will just make living there unaffordable because it cannot be insured anymore.
Without dikes, levees, and a proper system to alleviate water issues, Florida will return to the sea. And Florida man will have to move elsewhere.
Exactly.
Florida about to erase climate change from its laws?
That's fine. Climate change will erase Florida using the laws of nature.
The only good thing that could ever come from climate change is Florida being flooded out of existence.
@GlennicusM @ProdigalFrog Perhaps, but then we'd have a bunch of displaced legislative malefactors infiltrating other state governments
But that's all right cuz they'll just sell their homes to aquaman.
You're right.
We should build a wall.
They really gonna be cryin' once their 'Glade homes sink. Only then will they backpedal.
The literal equivalent of sticking your head in the mud.
I disagree. They will find a way to still be right while blaming the problem on others. Alternatively it’ll be like giant forests. Cut one down and that open space seems perfectly fine to the children who never saw the forest that used to be there.
