Self-inflicted wound

More than two thirds of Florida adults consider climate change a threat to future generations and say state and local governments should do more to address it, according to a poll released Monday by Florida Atlantic University.

The poll found 68 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that climate change “has them concerned about the well-being of future generations in Florida,” according to a news release from the university. Just 28 percent said state, county and city governments were doing enough to address it. source

It’s not a self-inflicted wound. I am so tired of this misinformation for the sake of pithy humor. Recognize oppression when you see it or you are on the side of fascism.

Yet they're still voting for Republicans. They're enabled this.
- Yes, because decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, lobbying, political corruption and misinformation campaigns directed toward one of the most educationally underserved states has absolutely no effect on elections.
  What you are doing is usually termed victim blaming, so careful.
- Mostly the Cubans and old folks from other states who move there for their last decade or two of life. The old folks will be dead before it’s a problem, the Cubans refuse to vote for anyone left of hitler because they hate the idea of another people’s revolution taking their ill-gotten wealth, even though todays Cuban Americans aren’t nearly as powerful as the Cubans that the revolution overthrew.
- they’re still voting for Republicans
  Every time I check the Florida election results its "5-4, Republicans win". You Floridians need literally one more vote, but those stupid tankie leftists just won't pitch in.
Floridians are still voting Red in droved. Guess something else is more important to them at the polls.
- They gotta ban abortion and 'save' all the fetuses first so they too can experience the horrors of global warming and climate change under the watchful eye of a theocratic dictatorship.
Thanks for posting this. I've lived in Florida my whole life, and voted blue-no-matter-who in every election since I was eligible to vote, as do all my friends and family. I try to help others within my sphere of influence to make good political choices, too, and those conversations can be hard. My area has been particularly red for as long as I can remember, and that has only gotten more true in recent years. It often sucks to live here but I am stuck for the foreseeable future, and so I am putting forth the effort to change what I am able.
As such, I have always found it a bit discouraging that so many seem to think that Florida is some hive-mind phenomenon, wherein every eligible person votes against their own best interests in perfect unison. I mean, a lot of them do, obviously -- but the lack of empathy for the rest of us, that's the weird part to me.
Also, this got me curious and I looked up how the voter base skews along party lines, the numbers are way closer than I would have guessed.
- Thanks for sharing. On the behalf of the rest of the “leftist” internet I’d like to apologize.
  There’s a lot of demented jokes people make about the underserved and oppressed and I try to do my part to counteract it. :)
Yet they keep voting for the opposite. Is it tribalism or is the data wrong?
- We're all voting for the opposite, so yes tribalism.
Recognize oppression when you see it or you are on the side of fascism.
Nonsense. Florida is part of the freest and fairest democracy in the entire history of the universe. If Floridians wanted to do something about climate change, they would simply vote harder.
- i think they didn’t get your satire 🫡 my respects for the effort
- Hah.
Aaaand I belive it.

They're gonna have to build a wall to keep the water out!

I wonder if the ocean will pay for this one.
- Tell it to Earth.
You might want to build one to keep the Floridians in
That always goes well
- *swell
- I mean, there's been some failures, but well-built levees have been super helpful for thousands of years..
And then they're going to have to drive a Chevy there to check if it's dry..
- As long as they bring some whiskey and rye

I think if you're in Florida, sell now and get out (sucks for whoever's willing to buy). Not just the parts that will be submerged, get out of the whole place because the policies/insurance/laws/taxes are going to go absolutely nuts for the whole state.

I hear Aquaman is ready to scoop up all of those underwater properties!
My aunt and uncle are buying a house there this year now that the kids are out of the house. We're already only an hour away from the gulf, not sure what else they're trying to find.
The poster who posted this is not very smart and is just pushing outrage, like they always do.
Read the graphic. The light blue is 5m (over 16 feet) and the other blue is 10m (over 32 feet). The estimate rise is about 2 feet in 2100. So not even the first area.
I hate to downplay the threat of climate change, because it is the biggest existential risk we've ever faced, but people like the OP do a disservice to the risk by posting these intentionally misleading graphics. And pushing things like "omg you have to be dumb to buy a place in Florida" (at least based on this graphic) is something that will likely backfire too.
It's the same dumb shit that conservatives use to claim that it isn't an issue because rich people are buying beach front property.

They'll blame democrats of course

Well of course the rich will leave, then even with the gerrymandering Dems or even progressives can take control, just in time to be blamed like Biden for Trump's tax hikes (the cuts were permanent for the rich and temporary followed by hikes for us plebs).
Shouting "Florida's gone woke!" from the rooftops

Don't worry, all those people who are going to lose their homes to raising ocean waters can just sell their property.

I hear Aquaman is looking to boost his real estate portfolio.
- I hear Superman can stop California losing its current coastline by flying the opposite direction the Earth is turning really fast.
Anybody that owns coastal property at this point deserves to lose it. We've known climate change has been coming for decades now, and if they haven't sold by now they're fools.

Unfortunately that will flood many of the major cities in Florida, leaving it politically redder...

You really think all those silver hairs will stay. They will infest alabama and it will barely change a shade.
- Gulf Shores will be long gone by then too, it’s gonna be some new beach near fucking Dothan
The people will float to the top so there will be a delicious blue creame skin to the state.

This can all be avoided with a pallet of paper towels and a sharpie.

Just circle the area of the map where you want the climate change to go.
- Then plant all the paper towels in a cool, moist, & bright environment. By the next morning, Hillary Clinton will have stolen all your guns.

So, which backwater town will become the next big harbor City?

That's the next real estate boom, better get in early
- Better build it on pontoons.

If we had a functioning government in the US, this could be less of a problem. I wonder how we get one of those?

- Checking the election results and they say "5-4 Republicans win"
Vote for the radical leftists the Republicans have been screaming about.
When another milquetoast moderate wins anyway, consider alternatives.
- Is there other red in USSA? You know, communists.
I mean Floridians could start mitigating the inevitable effects of climate change themselves. It's a lot easier to get a functioning state government, they'd just have to vote for Democrats.
- The word "just" there is pulling a lot of weight.

I wonder where the Florida refugees will go…

If we get the right ~~person~~ rabbit, they won't have anywhere to go.
- Fucking Kangaroos
Current models predict that climate displaced people in the US generally are all going to begin moving towards the Great Lakes as the least severely impacted parts of the country. Apparently to Wisconsin in particular since it's less already inhabited than the rest of the region.
- SHHHHHHH!
- It gets very cold and snowy in the winters but the northern middle west dodge most of the serious tornadoes to the west and south, no significant risk for hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. Plus a decent source of fresh water if we can keep it clean and not let corpos take it all for free. And not so close to coastal areas to flood or mountains trapping heat.
Assuming it's still there, Disney World. Kinda surprised they haven't tried to move it elsewhere by now tbh.
- Disney would be rolling in his grave, he wanted walkable cities and rail.

Florida: I was in the pool!

Sure, you've got alligators swimming up to your house now, but just remember that for a brief, shining moment . . . profit was made.

Anyone on the florida coast knows it's not sea rise alone that will get you.

It's hurricanes.

I'm not on the coast, but let me tell you, the existential dread the last few seasons was real (and proven right with Ian), much less this upcoming season.

Another underappreciated point: most people who live right on the coast now are snowbirds in giant mansions, who can very much afford to lose their vacation home to a hurricane. They don't even live there most of the time.

I have a friend from high school who had a house collapse on her during Hurricane Ivan and she's on disability for life now.
And that was before the ocean was anywhere near as hot as it is now.
There's been talk about a category 6.
Every year hurricane season starts earlier, they're bigger, and they go up the coast further.
- To be fair, they always seem to hit certainl places in certain months. West coast seems to mostly be later season, around the "I" storms.
  But yeah, not looking forward to this season.

Sucks that key west is there. I hate Florida but i love key west.

On the plus side the islands will be awesome

whats the timeline on this?

Not soon enough. I'd love to throw a biblical flood joke in there just to spite the book burners and bible thumpers.
- true dat. i feel for the innocent people caught in the middle though, but i was under the impression it wouldnt take that long for a damaging rise in sea levels.
That all depends on what we do to slow it down.
Venus by Tuesday

Oh look another Democrat Hoax!
Get out of here with your Al Gore lies!

Look at all that new beachfront property!

also /S

Some denier actually brought up Al Gore in another comment. Seriously.
- I saw that....

It’s kinda sad, I hate it when people footgun themselves

people like you will get used to snorkeling to get to the grocery store before they accept climate change is happening.
Useful idiots? Who’s the one buying the lies of the fossil fuel industry?
Sounds like you’re the one being used.
You rich? You better be. Otherwise leopards love faces.
- Being rich isn't going to save your beachfront property from the next super hurricane. The leopards will be eating everyone's faces.
The glacial ice on Kilimanjaro has objectively been shrinking for the past century since we started measuring it.
- The real question would be: was it also shrinking before?
  Because if the trend was already negative might not be related to human activities
Noted climate scientist Al Gore.