Are We All Living in Florida Now? The Rise of 'Don't Say Climate' Politics.

Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of 'don't say climate' politics.

Last May, as blistering-hot weather broke records across South Florida and smoke from distant wildfires in Mexico turned the sky hazy, Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, signed legislation erasing most mentions of “climate change” from state law. “We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots,” he wrote on X. Back then, it felt like just another Florida story, a fresh example of …

Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of ‘don’t say climate’ politics.

Last May, as blistering-hot weather broke records across South Florida and smoke from distant wildfires in Mexico turned the sky hazy, Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor, signed legislation erasing most mentions of "climate change" from state law. "We're restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots," he wrote on X. Back then, it felt like just another Florida story, a fresh example of …