Securing a Safe, Just, and Climate-Ready Future for Florida
By Bianca Majumder, Cathleen Kelly, Salome Garcia, Yoca Arditi-Rocha, and Katrina Erwin
March 16, 2021, 9:00 am Getty/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
Houses are seen along an eroded beach in Palm Coast, Florida, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, September 2017.
Sam Hananel
Ari Drennen
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The effects of climate change and their inequitable distribution have become part of the daily fabric of life in Florida. Increasingly intense extreme heat threatens public health and air quality, and more powerful hurricanes threaten human life and infrastructure.
1 Recurrent flooding from sea level rise has become a widely known characteristic of the state, damaging homes, disrupting commutes, threatening water quality, and interfering with tourism.