Florida Preparing For Sea Rise With Jesus Lessons

Chuck Watson, a “disaster-­impact analyst,” “recalls attending a meeting on natural-hazard-response planning in South Florida, funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state: ‘I mentioned sea-level rise, and I was treated to a 15-minute lecture on Genesis by one of the commissioners. He said, God destroyed the Earth with water the first time, and he promised he wouldn’t do it again. So all of you who are pushing fears about sea-level rise, go back and read the Bible.’”

So yeah this Rolling Stone article on how Florida will be a disaster over the next 80 years didn’t go over so well. “I was hopeful of a more positive tone that talked about everything Miami Beach was doing to avoid gloom and doom. Instead it focused on gloom and doom,” replied a Miami Beach commissioner.