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Florida has another Hurricane barreling down on it. This time it is Nicole. Most of us know that climate change is real, over 99 percent of the Scientist tell us it is. Florida also just had an election. Guess who won? The people that do not take climate change seriously. I have written before that one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. I have to say that we have a lot of voters in Florida that are just nuts. Climate change should be the number one issue. Why isn’t it? It cost the people of Florida and the Country billions and billions of dollars but we would rather talk about the price of eggs at the grocery store or the price on gas at the pump. We have people here that lost everything. That’s right everything. The question that is asked of course is, didn’t they have insurance? In many cases the answer is no. You can say that it's their own fault but is it really? Climate Change has affected the insurance business here worse than any business in Florida in my opinion. There are places that just can’t get insurance or the price is just so high that they can’t afford it so they roll the dice. Some with insurance have huge deductibles that they will be spending more than inflation will cost them in years. And climate change itself adds to the inflation because of all the crop damage. It is easy for the Republicans to blame Biden for inflation when really he has as much control over than as he does the weather, or he does about the world wide supply chain issue.

DeSantis and Rubio won in Florida and I for one is extremely disappointed. Neither have been a champion against climate change and climate change is the most serious issue that is facing the State of Florida. Not inflation, not immigration and not even gun control, it is Climate Change. If there ever is a State that needs people to fight for Green Energy it is Florida.

DeSantis got a lot of praise for the handling of the response to Hurricane Ian, my take on that is that he benefited because of the hard work that others like Jeb Bush did before him. Florida has had a lot of practice in Hurricane recovery and those plans were in place long before DeSantis was elected. Read up a little bit about Jeb Bush and his Hurricane Recovery and you will see how to handle a disaster were drawn up before the DeSantis administration. What DeSantis did was look good in front of the camera taking credit for what others had put in place before him. It is easy to look important while other people are doing the actual planning and the work. Florida is going to need to expand that knowledge because climate wise, things are not going to get better for Florida. In fact they will probably get worse.

Florida is an expensive place to live, if you are not well off to start with and it is going to get worse. That is why there is a shortage of labor here. Working laborers just can’t afford to live here. They can’t afford rent, they can’t afford housing, electricity costs a lot, water cost a lot, and they can’t afford to buy food. It was a great culture shock for me moving here three years ago and how much more we had to pay just to eat versus up in Wisconsin. I really don’t see Rubio or DeSantis doing anything to make it better, not a thing. One of the hardest hit areas here with Ian was the Harlem Heights area. Now I saw DeSantis passing out food in Naples that did have some damage but you didn’t see him were the need was the greatest like Harlem Heights. Now with the amount I saw Rubio he may have well flown to Cancun like Ted Cruz because he was really missing in action.

Florida has some huge issues and they keep on electing people that don’t want to address the issues. We need to address climate change and our changing ocean front. As the state gets warmer we will be consuming more and more power. We need workers and affordable housing for those workers. If it wasn’t for those migrant Hispanic workers here is Florida we would be in a greater problem than we are now. What does DeSantis do? He makes Hispanic workers afraid to come here. Look at the guys that are tarping our roof? Listen to the language that they are speaking? Spanish! I for one am very thankful that they are here and we are going to continue to need them in the future. The road to recovery from Ian will not take weeks, or months but years. DeSantis seems to already have moved on and has started running for President and will be trying to convince the whole country not to say gay. To be truthful Rubio was never here in the first place. Our Congressman? I can’t even tell you were in the hell he has been.

Florida is in for a challenging future. Remember my definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.  

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  1. AnonymousNovember 10, 2022 at 8:13 AM

    Agreed. I really wish people could face the reality of climate change before it literally kills them... and us.

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