• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Florida has some pretty nasty wildfires too. Dealing with wildfire smoke wasn’t that unusual as a kid, and swamp fires are disgusting, but they were rarely as bad as the smoke Minnesota has been getting hit with this year. California also has to put in more effort to fight them due to how many expensive homes are at risk - mostly poor people live in rural areas in Florida. My father worked for the Florida Division of Forestry so I definitely heard more about the wildfire situation though, every few years they’d ask my dad and his co-workers to go help with the California wildfires and usually a bunch of his co-workers went. I wouldn’t be shocked if they’ve stopped helping under DeSantis though.

    Florida’s been having really bad red tides recently and that reeks along with the sargassum blob last year. The effects of climate change are impacting them too, but their anger has been directed at things less dangerous for the capitalists.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      1 year ago

      yep exactly. I’d love for all of us to come together and solve climate change, there are solutions we could figure out, but instead people would rather literally make fun of people affected by it. But let’s keep laughing at libs rather than actually solving problems.