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Miami Herald/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state’s 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district’s Republican representative, Carlos Curbelo, introduced a bill that would tax greenhouse-gas emissions to help reduce the impact of climate change on his hurricane-prone constituency. Curbelo’s ....

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How Natural Disasters Can Change A Politician

Miami Herald/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state's 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district's Republican representative, Carlos Curbelo, introduced a bill that would tax greenhouse-gas emissions to help reduce the impact of climate change on his hurricane-prone constituency. Curbelo's party affiliation raised eyebrows at the time, but for him, the threat of recurrent disasters sent political partisanship out the window. "This is not an academic discussion for those of us who live in South Florida. This is a local issue," he told Audubon magazine in 2018. And he's not alone. Today, although some one-quarter of elected officials walking the halls of Congress don't believe human-caused climate change is even real, research suggests that politicians can be persuaded to take action on climate change and other environmental issues. Unfor ....

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