As Biden takes office, demand state and feds address climate change | Opinion
As I think of the future and what is to come in the next decade or so of my life, I can’t help but feel a sense of despair when I realize that the place I call home, Florida, might not exist as we know it by the time my nieces and nephews, now children, become teenagers.
Issues such as sea-level rise, the restoration of the Everglades ecosystem, the impacts of flooding along the Florida coastline and the increase of blue-green and red algae must be addressed by the incoming Biden administration as a priority.
These issues, among many others, have been ignored for too long by inept and slow-acting local, state and federal officeholders. The urgency of the matter has not been taken seriously, and I only hope that the new administration takes the steps to prioritize the impacts of ...
