Should We Keep Rebuilding Florida As It Sinks Into Rising Waters?
Coastal homes, Insurance, Immigration, The Poor, and More
Roaring Rivers
Formerly Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers
Florida flooded with fools
We have to keep rebuilding Florida. We have to keep repairing flooded gulf states. You know, the ones who got rich by enabling the climate crisis that is upon us.
Oil states. Exploding Oil rigs, spill states, shiny new lease to drill states, and inundated states lined up and ready for more Katrina, Fiona, and Ian-type events.
We have to rebuild.
We have to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are wet. Eventually, Florida will be underwater and Florida man jokes will morph into soggy, flaccid, saddest-member-of-America jokes.
Some people advise that we cut it off; castrate.
The water, the rising storms, the lethal pollution, and the water-borne illness will cost billions. Eventually, I expect trillions. They have been predicted for decades.
But lives, especially the lives of those who clean toilets for those with…