Florida Legislature: Get Serious About Climate Change

Despite increasingly powerful hurricanes, regular flooding in coastal cities, loss of storm surge mitigating wetlands and coral reefs and repeated warnings from scientists, Florida does not have an active statewide plan for dealing with the impacts of climate change. It’s time to demand our state’s leaders act.

Hurricane Irma has once again forced this critical issue to the surface and one thing we know for sure is our state’s current or future leaders won’t change their tune unless we demand they take action and pressure them to put people over the profits of polluters.

Sign our petition to the Florida Legislature today and tell them it’s time for a statewide plan to address the impacts of climate change.

Petition To The Florida Legislature

We the undersigned demand the legislature put together a plan to address the impacts our state is facing from climate change.

It’s not a matter of if, but when, we’ll see more serious impacts from climate change in Florida. Hurricane Irma is only the most recent example. High tides regularly flood the streets of Miami and force coastal cities to spend millions to rehabilitate beaches lost to the ocean. Rising temperatures aid the spread of invasive species and accelerate the decline of native forests and rivers. Vulnerable populations such as poor and working class families suffer greatly, unable to move away from threatened areas whether a hurricane is approaching or not.

The time to act is now.

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Subject: This is why Florida needs a plan

Friends,

Despite increasingly powerful hurricanes, regular flooding in coastal cities, loss of storm surge mitigating wetlands and coral reefs and repeated warnings from scientists, Florida does not have an active statewide plan for dealing with the impacts of climate change. It’s time to demand our state’s leaders act.

Join me and sign the petition to the Florida Legislature: it’s time for a statewide plan to address the impacts of climate change:
http://act.progressflorida.org/sign/climateactionplan/?referring_akid=5541.223931.FzrS3k&source=taf

It’s not a matter of if, but when, we’ll see more serious impacts from climate change in Florida. Hurricane Irma is only the most recent example. High tides regularly flood the streets of Miami and force coastal cities to spend millions to rehabilitate beaches lost to the ocean. Rising temperatures aid the spread of invasive species and accelerate the decline of native forests and rivers. Vulnerable populations such as poor and working class families suffer greatly, unable to move away from threatened areas whether a hurricane is approaching or not.

Climate change and its impacts continue to be ignored by legislative leadership and Gov. Scott. It's time we change that by taking action and ensuring our current or future state leaders create a statewide plan to address climate change.

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