The GOP knew. It just didn’t care. They didn’t realize you can’t really buy your way out of a climate change. That the climate is changing now was brought home last night. My husband took me for a ride and we stopped at an ice cream stand. It was 87 degrees last night. In Ohio. In OCTOBER.
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord; continues to deny the climate is changing; and tore up President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
Our climate is changing before our eyes. Longer, drier droughts. Wildfires every year; some states, more than that. More natural disasters. Disastrous hurricanes used to be every 10 years or so. Now it’s every year; and Hurricane Michael has just been upgraded to Category 4. It hasn’t even made landfall yet, and they’re predicting winds of up to 130 mph. It’s on track to hit the Florida Panhandle.
Puerto Rico hasn’t completely recovered from the last hurricane. Now it may catch another one. Sea levels are rising. In Miami it floods when it rains.
Republicans refuse to take action. We have a chance to replace them with people who will take action. To pick up seats in states we usually wouldn’t even be considered in.
VOTE! Vote like your liberties, your life depend on it. Vote early, vote absentee or vote in person. But vote. For too long we have let a minority make decisions that will affect 100% of us.