Righting Climate Change
No Left-Wing Stuff
Published in The EarthSphere Blog
Florida Republicans, under pressure from reality, are now acknowledging climate change. I have stated numerous times the denial method of dealing with climate change will stop when voters have a “holy crap” moment as water creeps under their front door and into the living room. Denying climate change is easy when it’s someone else’s problem. But when climate change gets personal, it rises on the voter’s radar screen. But in Florida, there is a right way and a left way to address the problem.
“What I’ve found is when people start talking about things like global warming, they typically use that as a pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things that they would want to do anyways. And so we’re not doing any left-wing stuff,” stated Governor Ron DeSantis as he recently unveiled the ‘Always Ready Florida’ plan to deal with coastal flooding.
Evidently, the flooding problems are now reaching into Republican-leaning neighborhoods, and not everyone is happy. Even though the approach is typical knee-jerk policymaking after avoiding any proactive action for years, I am glad to see an acknowledgment of the problem and some baby steps towards adapting to a new reality.
I’m still in the dark about “left-wing stuff,” but perhaps clues are hidden in the…
