LETTER TO THE EDITOR / Candidates need to address climate change
By Mark Songer
Denying climate change will impact Florida’s future may be a strategy, but it has not proven to be an effective one. With 75 percent of our population living in counties lining the coast, Florida must prepare for the increasingly severe weather and sea-level rise caused by climate change. Leadership in Tallahassee must guide state-wide coordinated efforts by setting policy to increase the resiliency of our communities and significantly reduce greenhouse emissions.
Increasing the resiliency of our communities means hardening waste water treatment plants, power plants and other facilities against impacts from sea-level rise and windstorms. Funding is needed to insure low-income communities have the resources to implement resilience strategies. Unbiased research of future impacts to natural areas, Florida’s economy, and communities must be undertaken to serve as a foundation for planning.
These planning strategies can also be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making growth management choices that reduce automobile dependency, by incentivizing walkable communi
Administrative changes can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting use of electric vehicles (EV) by cities, counties and businesses. Facilitating EV charging station investments at multi-family properties and ensuring EV owners can responsibly install and use charging equipment will increase adoption. Prohibiting fracking in Florida in all its forms and new extraction of fossil fuels will keep the carbon in the ground and out of the atmosphere.
You can influence planning for climate change by voting on November 6th for Governor, the cabinet, House District 120 and Congressional District 26. Read the candidate’s positions and question them at local events. Make sure they share your priority to reduce the impacts of climate change by increasing resiliency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to preserve Florida’s environment and economy.
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Nostradamus said 500 years ago that Florida will rise due to plate tectonics . I’m confused. (sic)
I suppoe leftists will never give up on their dream of fueling the UN as the world headquarters with carbon tax funds.
What a travesty.
Candidates in good standing with the Climate Change Church (C3) should obtain benediction from St. Gore, Patron Saint.
Candidates can make a $175,000 offering for St. Gore to personally deliver a sermon to their C3 congregation at the local C3 gathering. Only stipulation, attendees must be attired in hemp sacks.
Candidates may choose to visit St. Gore, at his beach temple. It is recommended that candidates walk to his temple from their place of residance. St. Gore chose this beach location so that he would be a Witness to the 5-20 feet rise of the seas.
Candidates that are C3 clergy may be graced with a St. Gore pilgrimage to the Arctic aboard his private jet. St. Gore has a flock of polar bears there. He is concerned that this polar bear flock will be homeless when the Arctic melts.
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Why in this world do the lefties and righties ignore the poisoning of Planet Earth. Do they all own Oil Stocks, Chemical Plant Stocks, War Bonds? The people know, but don’t care if this rock dies as long as they have fun in the sun, get stuff for free, get stoned somehow, and BREED BREED BREED themselves into lustful piles of fertilizer. We ain’t gunna make it!!
It is so presumptuous on our part to ‘believe’ that we have that much impact on the planet. To further ‘believe’ that we can fix problems of our own making to save ourselves from ourselves is quite a conundrum. Let’s start with ‘fixing’ forest fires, volcano eruptions and toxic gases spewing out of failed mines and oil/gas exploration sites, etc. etc. That’d be a good start.
The not in my backyard mentality has its limits, however, and, unfortunately, we all are born and die selfish.
Perhaps we need a new JC to expiate for our sins? The old one didn’t do the trick…