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Q climate called The Climavores. And in 2007, he published a book called The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. It detailed the destruction and attempted resurrection of the Everglades. Now, Mike is an unapologetic Floridian. He's also unapologetically critical of Florida's build now, figure it out later approach to development. When you say Florida is an ecological Ponzi scheme with no risk management, what do you mean?
A Up until the 20th century, Florida was, it was really America's last frontier. It was pretty much an uninhabited wasteland, and it was really water management. People talk about Social Security or bug spray that, uh, that made Florida what it is today, but it was really water management, uh, you know, around, around World War II, where they finally started to get it right, and then You just had this incredible boom. And since then, really, the, the business of Florida has been bringing in more people. We bring in a thousand people every day. You know, we're not a, you know, not a place that has industry. Our business is real estate and tourism. 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. So really, Our entire economy, you know, where we bring in a thousand people a day, but most of those people, they either, like, you know, they work in a nursery, or they, you know, lay tile, or they're a mortgage broker, or a real estate lawyer, they're somebody whose job depends on bringing in another thousand people tomorrow. 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, uh, the harm arriv…
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Q climate called The Climavores. And in 2007, he published a book called The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. It detailed the destruction and attempted resurrection of the Everglades. Now, Mike is an unapologetic Floridian. He's also unapologetically critical of Florida's build now, figure it out later approach to development. When you say Florida is an ecological Ponzi scheme with no risk management, what do you mean?
A Up until the 20th century, Florida was, it was really America's last frontier. It was pretty much an uninhabited wasteland, and it was really water management. People talk about Social Security or bug spray that, uh, that made Florida what it is today, but it was really water management, uh, you know, around, around World War II, where they finally started to get it right, and then You just had this incredible boom. And since then, really, the, the business of Florida has been bringing in more people. We bring in a thousand people every day. You know, we're not a, you know, not a place that has industry. Our business is real estate and tourism. 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. So really, Our entire economy, you know, where we bring in a thousand people a day, but most of those people, they either, like, you know, they work in a nursery, or they, you know, lay tile, or they're a mortgage broker, or a real estate lawyer, they're somebody whose job depends on bringing in another thousand people tomorrow. 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, uh, the harm arriv…
AI assessment note: “somebody whose job depends on bringing in another thousand people tomorrow”
