DeSantis signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser priority and bans offshore wind turbines
DeSantis signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser priority and bans offshore wind turbines
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill making climate change a lesser priority under state law and banning offshore wind turbines near the lengthy coastline
I cant wait for Economist to study how bad this man did Florida's economy.
And when we're long gone and Florida is half under water... Historians will put his name up around the top of helping its destruction.
Guess he just wants to be remembered for something.
and climate.
it's like... he wants his state to wind up under water. both figuratively and literally.
It's not like climate change will affect Florida at all. /s
Yeah, I can understand objecting to climate change policy, but Florida is pretty deeply in the "stands to really disproportionately hurt from climate change" category.
I feel bad for the people who didn't vote for this guy, but are stuck there and have to pay the price for these shitty decisions.
Also, let's not forget that DeSantis can't do anything unilaterally. A whole legislature made this possible.
Florida has a long and storied history of disenfranchising voters through criminal prosecution. Its the state with the sixth highest false conviction rate and a steadily increasing rate of Alford Pleas (aka pleas in which you assert innocence but do not contest a guilty verdict, typically on the grounds of legal expense or in order to obtain release from jail pending a delayed trial).
They're also some of the most aggressive in purging voter rolls of elderly minority voters, they're heavily gerrymandered, and they have some of the most rigid rules around participating in primaries nationally.
This has resulted in some record low turnout figures, most notably in the recent primary, in which only 19% of eligible voters participated.
It's okay, Floridian onshore wind farms will soon be offshore wind farms in a couple of years
And this outlawed and dismantled.
The measure signed by DeSantis would also launch a study of small nuclear reactor technology, expand the use of vehicles powered by hydrogen and enhance electric grid security, according to the governor's office.
Got some whiplash at the end there after reading some of the most dumbass policies that've ever been written.
He's not trying to entirely cripple his base of power, just look good to an audience. He could make Florida destitute in an afternoon if he so chose, but he would fall out a window by morning if he did, and knows it, so there's some bare minimum stuff in there just to keep the lights on.
"We're launching a study" is a classic cop-out. We've been "studying" hydrogen power for the last 30 years, with virtually no commercial applications.
Our development of nuclear energy in the US has completely stalled out, with the most recent project - the Georgia Vogtle 3 and 4 reactors - completing at 3x their original expected budget and eight years late. Along the way, the main designer of the plant - Westinghouse - straight up went bankrupt due to mismanagement and delays.
Wind power is crazy cheap and easy to deploy, by comparison. It takes less than two years for a wind turbine to turn a profit and new units can be deployed for millions - rather than billions - of dollars. We have thousands of turbines already in use and we're prepared to run out tens of thousands more by the end of the decade.
This isn't a good policy. Its do-nothing busy work for bureaucrats invested in the state's legacy coal infrastructure.
Isn't on of the things on the first page of their book a command to be good and responsible stewards for their environment?
What happens if they build coastal wind turbines that become offshore when sea levels rise?
I smell loophole!
He's never going to be President but Pudding Fingers is doing everything he can to destroy the planet all the same.
Man we really aren't going to make it are we? Like it's not bad enough that big oil has been fucking progress to a greener future for the past 50+ years, right? When shit starts to get REALLY bad is when the US decides to go through some sort of fucking idiot renaissance where ignorance is winning most battles and we have fucking morons just punching more holes in the already sinking ship.
I cannot legally state my opinion on this.
Let's fix climate change except for the part where Florida sinks into the ocean.
If caring about the planet makes me an extremist in your eyes, I think that says more about you than it says about me.
Free Market!