Florida

“So what we're seeing is now in at least 20 states a count is at, including Florida, we've seen bills that preempt local governments from taking different kinds of climate action.”

“We have a lot of agriculture, too, but a little known fact is that our biggest agricultural industry is nurseries, which is essentially growing sod and palm trees for suburban lawns.”

“And now, of course, we see the consequences, and the consequences will be Florida's gonna put its hand out and ask Washington, D.C. To pay for all this, and probably they will.”

“We bring in a thousand people every day.”

“You know, I don't think there will be a lot of soul searching about, you know, do we belong here? Does a place like Cape Coral, you know, should it be rebuilt? It's going to be rebuilt.”

“We built here, you know, we're not gonna tell 200,000 people to leave Cape Coral. We're not gonna tell ten million people to leave South Florida.”

“Rick Scott, when he was governor, one of the first things he did was get rid of Florida's growth management agency, and since then, it's been all growth and no management.”

“And so that's what I mean by this ecological Ponzi scheme, where eventually, kind of, the bill comes due, and Hurricane Ian is one of those moments where suddenly we've put twenty million people in harm's way, And the harm arrived.”

“Much of the South, and especially the Southeast, is already electrified, and we see that across the country, one in four homes is already all electric and I've seen this too, and in our study, we looked at Florida, for example, and we found that only nine perc…”

“Florida, Turkey Point in Florida is, is, has a license granted for two new reactors, but they're not building them because they're flinchy about the cost.”