What Does It Matter To Floridians If Florida Goes Underwater Anyway?

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What’s worse — residing along with your head underneath the sand or your head underneath the water? Properly, within the case of Florida, it appears individuals are desperate to do each. After all, the issue is {that a} human can’t survive with their head buried in sand or with their head submerged underneath water for lengthy. Don’t inform a Floridan that, although! They’ll outlaw mentioning the dilemma!

My daughters realized this previous week from me that Florida is prone to go underneath water in some unspecified time in the future. They stated that I ought to write about that on CleanTechnica!! I instructed them we had, many instances, and that that is fairly well-known. “What? And other people aren’t doing something about it?” I defined that many individuals are working to do one thing about it, and that’s what CleanTechnica is all about — protecting progress on cleantech options aimed toward stopping international heating and inspiring extra individuals to undertake cleantech options like electrical vehicles and solar energy. I added that though that’s the case, we nonetheless aren’t doing sufficient, and extra doubtless than not, Florida (the place we dwell) will go underneath water in the future.

Then, a day or two later, I learn this text from Steve Hanley. “The Florida legislature is contemplating Home Invoice 1645, which might delete the phrase ‘local weather change’ the place it’s used eight instances in present state legislation. (In seven different situations, it could be left untouched.) As well as, the invoice would repeal complete sections of legislation that point out local weather change, resembling a grant program that helps native governments and faculty districts scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions,” Steve writes. What? Critically? And that’s not the worst of it!

“In line with the Tampa Bay Instances, the invoice would additionally scale back sure rules on pure gasoline pipelines, preempt native governments’ management over the situation of pure gasoline storage services, and make it so state companies and native governments now not have to contemplate gas effectivity when shopping for autos, amongst different modifications. Just lately we reported on how fossil gas pursuits are combating for native management over photo voltaic and wind vitality installations. Hypocrisy doesn’t even make these individuals blush. It’s what they do, all day, each day.

“One other provision within the legislation would prohibit utility firms from supplying electrical energy to clients who cost their electrical vehicles at residence. That provision could or could not make it into the ultimate model of the invoice, nevertheless it reveals the lengths MAGA lunatics are prepared to go to to be able to suck as much as fossil gas firms.”

Yikes. Speak about moronic conduct. And of all of the states to do this sort of factor, it’s the one that can endure probably the most from sea-level rise! It’s laborious to grasp the idiocy. I suppose it’s simple to simply hope that each one that “international warming stuff” is simply not true, and block it out (and attempt to outlaw any point out of it), however I feel it’s clear sufficient that’s not one of the best path ahead.

Generally, it’s laborious to imagine people found out easy methods to create electrical energy, easy methods to make autos fly, easy methods to put all of the issues on our telephones and computer systems that we now have on our telephones and computer systems, and even easy methods to depend, for that matter. We might be so proficient at fully ignorant conduct and never believing what’s proper in entrance of our face. God bless us all, as they are saying within the US South.