Isn’t it, that they can’t get them to pay attention to global warming?
One small city in South Florida is willing to secede from the state if it means the threat of sea level rise will finally be taken seriously.
The city commission of South Miami, FL — a city that sits just west of the University of Miami in Coral Gables — passed a resolution this week that calls for Florida to be split into a North Florida and a South Florida, a creation of an additional state that would allow
South Florida to take climate change preparation and adaptation into its own hands.“It’s very apparent that the attitude of the northern part of the state is that they would just love to saw the state in half and just let us float off into the Caribbean,” South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard said. “They’ve made that abundantly clear every possible opportunity and I would love to give them the opportunity to do that.”
[…] The resolution singled out Southeast Florida’s particular vulnerability to sea level rise in its reasons behind its call for secession from the current state of Florida. It noted sea level rise estimates of three to six feet by the end of this century, and stated that, because much of South Florida is low-lying and sits on porous bedrock, even a small amount of sea level rise can easily cause flooding and could pose a threat to the region’s groundwater.
“South Florida’s situation is very precarious and in need of immediate attention,” the resolution states. “Many of the issues facing South Florida are not political, but are now significant safety issues.”
(Operation Tempora) There is no doubt that the residents of “north” Florida are very conservative thinkers. But the demarcation line keeps moving further and further to the north. ////// In England the intelligence community is legally permitted to capture everything on the internet, slow it down to readable speed, and then cull out and copy any information that’s of interest to them. In the US such activity is a violation of our Constitution. But, it is not unconstitutional for the NSA to receive second-hand intelligence from any country that we have a treaty with concerning these matters. The NSA and the CIA have systematically destroyed our constitutional rights over time. They have been allowed to do that with the approval and acquiescence of our elected representatives. We are aware of this destruction of our rights only because Edward Snowden chose to tell us all about the Tempora program.
Isn’t Florida a ‘Stand your ground’ state. Why don’t they just shoot the ocean? It’s the Republican response to every other threat.