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Hurricanes, Politics, and Climate Change: Navigating the Stormy Waters · How To Protect The Ocean

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It is devastating to watch people go through this. It's scary, but
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You're implying that the government made
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a hurricane stronger to hurt its own
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country, the United States of America? What would
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When, if you, like there's been people out there, if
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they have an Alexa, I don't know if you've heard that, and they've asked, what
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caused Milton? You can go on there now, it's
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already predicted the number of deaths and the amount of, it's already predicted it.
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On a Google, it won't do that. If you ask it about Haleen,
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it'll tell you the government actively used seed clouding.
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Why would a country want to have a hurricane be strong and hit its
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because they want to control certain places. And
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if you're looking at where the hurricane's going, it's a lot
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Global warming, that's the global warming you have to worry about. Not that
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the ocean's gonna rise in 400 years an eighth of an inch, and
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you'll have more seafront property, right, if that happens. I said, is
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that good or bad? I said, isn't that a good thing? If
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I have a little property on the ocean, I have a little bit more property. I have
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And building of policies that will help the
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people of the U.S. who is going through climate change
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consequences. We have a chance as a people that are
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part of democratic societies to vote in people who will do
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something about climate change, who vote in people who are not going to believe in
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these crazy crazy schemes or conspiracy
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theories who want to criticize government policies to
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make them better to help the people later. Not just to get into
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power, not just to take down a government, but to say let's work
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together on this and let's help the American people. I have more
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respect for somebody who's not in power as part of a party
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that says let's work together to make relief efforts better after
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these disasters because we're going to see more more of them than somebody to come up with some
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crazy conspiracy theory and pass it out and make sure that
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misinformation is out there to like say, hey, you know what? Who
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cares? I want to be in power. You suck. You're cloud seeding. You're
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making the Republicans not vote because of this storm. You're
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controlling the weather. You're controlling the weather. This is
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like a scene out of like a Mike Myers movie.
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It's like Dr. Evil. Hey,
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everybody. Welcome back to another exciting episode of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast,
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the podcast where you find out what's happening with the ocean, how you can speak up
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for the ocean, what you can do to live for a better ocean by taking
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action. On today's episode, we're going to be talking about Hurricane Milton.
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We're also going to be talking about Hurricane Helene. These
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are both hurricanes that have passed through over the past couple of
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weeks through the southern Florida, middle Florida,
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I guess, Gulf States, like the western coast of Florida, and
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have produce a lot of damage right and with
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Milton as it just passed by last night
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as of recording this we were very fortunate that
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there wasn't the damage that happened well that
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we first initially thought initially like a couple days ago even a day ago
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it went from a category three to a category five quite
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rapidly and then before it hit the Tampa
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region, which was bracing and evacuating, it
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went down to a Category 3. It passed over the entire
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state of Florida and then
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went to the other side. By the time it reached the other side, it was a
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Category 1. So there was some flooding in areas, but the damage
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wasn't as bad as it was predicted
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to be, which is a great thing. We got away With
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a lot, let's be honest, you know, as a community, as
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a continent, you know, the US state of Florida,
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they got away with a lot. And
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although unfortunately, people did pass away,
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the last time I heard it was about nine that they're saying
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passed away. The damage and the
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amount of lives that were lost was
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minimized by the evacuation, by the lessened
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storm. But Hurricane 3, I've been through a hurricane
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that was a Category 3. That is scary. It
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is extremely scary to live through. I remember
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I went through Hurricane Juan in Halifax when
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I was living there with my now wife. We were
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okay because there weren't a lot of big trees where it was, but in downtown
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Halifax where there were older trees, large
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trees, the pavement was just jackknifed because the trees and the roots had
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come up. The wind was so high. The city
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shut down for like three weeks. And that was
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devastating to the people in the city, to the city itself,
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and it was a standstill. With
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Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton coming through, There
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was a lot of damage just because it was two hurricanes, one a Hurricane Category 4 and
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the other one a Category 3 in Milton. So the
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worry was that Helene was so devastating that
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the Category 3, if it was a Category 5 especially, it would just compound the
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problems that was already there. However, it didn't seem to do that. Although
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there was a lot of damage, there were tornadoes in Hurricane Milton,
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a lot of tornadoes. that caused a lot of damage as well. The wind
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caused more damage than what was expected as the flooding to cause,
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which was better than normal, I guess. It's still a lot of damage. It's
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still going to cost a lot. It's still life-changing
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for a lot of people that had to go through it, that live there, that
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may not have insurance or is uninsurable. People
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who lost their homes that live in trailer parks because of
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the tornadoes and the winds. Other places that
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are vulnerable as well to high winds lost
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a lot, lost their livelihoods in terms of their homes and everything. And
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I don't know how they're going to get over that. It's going
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to be a very difficult thing. There are a lot of GoFundMes, there are a lot of ways
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that you can donate. One place I heard people say, be careful
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where you donate. If you can go through reputable
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organizations, that might be better, but just be careful because there are people who
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will commit fraud so you just be careful with that. I
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want to go just to kind of cover that part because when we
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cover episodes like this and we cover these hurricanes, I'm
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going to go into some stuff that I didn't like about some
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of the politics and what was said around these
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and I got some clips that I'm going to show you today around the
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statements around these hurricanes. This is where I
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have the problem, but I want to cover this part where talking
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about some of the damage, talking about the problems that are faced and
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the people that are living through it, the people who couldn't evacuate or even the
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people who evacuated. We're looking at 9 to 10 million people
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trying to evacuate the area. I want to cover that first because I want
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to let people know. It is devastating, it
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is sad, and it's scary, and it's frustrating to
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see people go through this. To see
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people who have nowhere to go and can't evacuate and have to live through
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hurricanes that are very scary. Although some
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people say, hey, I've lived through hurricanes for a long
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time, lived in Florida for 45 years or more. We've
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been through this before. It's going to be okay. It's still a scary prospect
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to live through and not know what's going to happen, what kind of damage is going to
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happen, flooding or anything like that. As was reported, Tampa
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is not built for flooding, which is very surprising being
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in Florida where there are quite a number of hurricanes. It's not
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built for that great of flooding. But
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regardless, it's something that we
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have to make sure that we cover and we got to make sure that
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we talk about some of the reasoning of
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why people are so vulnerable, why we're all vulnerable to hurricanes
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like this, how hurricanes are causing this. and the
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politics around climate change, the politics
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around it rapidly intensified and more
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numerous hurricanes that we're seeing. And this is the frustrating aspect
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of watching people go through this because they don't have a choice.
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You know, we were seeing people on like, they're taking videos, we're
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seeing people, some people are like, no, like our house was built to
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withstand a hurricane, and we're gonna be fine. And we're not leaving because,
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you know, this is a conspiracy. And I'll get into that in a second. But, you
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know, we're gonna be fine. Because you know, why? We're American, we can
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handle this and that. And look, I get, you
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know, wanting to stay. I'm not a guy who likes change. But
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these are scary times. especially these hurricanes that
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are rapidly intensifying, that are coming in later or even sooner
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than normally. Originally, this was predicted to be the
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most devastating hurricane in 100 years
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that Tampa has ever faced, Tampa Bay. So these
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are the problems that we have to face, but then the politics around
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it is the frustrating part. Not
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even just the stuff that is not done to prevent these
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hurricanes from happening in the future, The problems are
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the stuff that said after, because it's a lot of,
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you know, there's an election obviously in the U.S. coming up
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in November, a very important presidential election, a very important election
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for some governors, some senators, for Congress, people
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who are running for Congress. There are, I don't know exactly how it's all
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delved out. You know, if, if who gets voted
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up, I think even some governors are having some races. So there's a lot,
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there's some very important elections coming up. And I wanted to do this
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episode and I wanted to highlight some of the things that are being said
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all in the name of politics, all in the name of these elections.
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And some of them are way, way out there and some of them are okay. Like
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I get what needs to be done. And you would think that
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after storms like these that we've faced and that we watched and
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witnessed and some people went through and, and, you know, life, literally life-changing. There's
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critique to be done, to be said. There are, you
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know, reports to be written. There's things that need to be reviewed and
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need to say, hey, did we do a good job in the
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relief efforts? Did we do a good job in the
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rescue efforts? What's happening with evacuation? How did
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evacuation go this time? How can we improve it
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for the next time? And just sort of adapt to the new changing
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normal that we are seeing with these storms. That
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is normal. That is what I expect to see. Maybe some
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criticism from the other side, like the people who are not in charge
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of government, like the parties that are not, like, so in this case, the Republicans are
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going to critique the Democrats and even some Democrats are gonna be
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like, we could have done better. Maybe, you know, that's something. The
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big thing is right after a storm is to get the relief efforts, to
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get the rescue efforts in as soon as possible. And,
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you know, when Hurricane Helene went through and it devastated so many
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states, it touched so many states, not just Florida, but Georgia,
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I believe it was like Tennessee, and the Carolinas, there
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may have been another state in there that I missed, but those places were
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like Asheville, North Carolina was devastated with flooding and
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not a lot of rescue efforts. It spans so many states and
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so much area that relief efforts had to
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go through. And so there was criticism by the
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right, so the Republicans, on how fast things were, the
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amount of money that people received right away, whether the president and
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or the vice president, who's running for president, were in
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contact with the governors. There was a lot of stuff said and
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a lot of misinformation that was dropped out by
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potentially both sides. And this is where the
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politics frustrates me. You know, it's like, you know,
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you know, former president Trump, who's running for president again,
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is out there talking about how, you know, the
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president, the current president Biden, didn't talk to people
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in Florida, didn't talk, like a lot of stuff was said that didn't actually
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happen. A lot of the governors had to come out and say, hey, you know what? We actually
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heard from President Biden. He actually gave us all the updates. He
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said, if we need anything, let him know. We're here for them. But
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the thing is, that's all said and good. You want the president to
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call the people, make sure that all the resources get there. What was
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not really said a lot, it was said a little bit, But
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there are like rules and regulations that are put into place. There
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are actions that are put into place as soon as a disaster hits. There's
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a reason why there's a there's an entire department FEMA that
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are there for these natural disasters, for the cleanup, for
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the immediate rescue, like to manage all of that. And
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all of those tasks and rules and regulations are done by the department.
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And a lot of the times they're set out by like the lawmakers.
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So Congress and the senators. You know, these are
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bills that are put into place to ensure that these regulations are
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ready and the tasks are ready to be delved out in time
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for that when a natural disaster hits, relief efforts are right
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there. So the amount of money that people receive and
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the amount of effort and the amount of resources that
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are put towards this rescue and
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this relief are there as soon as it happens. You
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know, the president just has to say, put them to place, or it doesn't even have to be the president.
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The president calling the governors to make sure that everything is fine is
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probably normal practice. That's just good ethics. But
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all the other tasks are just like, that's done right away. And even
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probably before the president could say, let's do it, it's probably already in place.
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And when you have people on the other side who are like, well, it's
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not enough, we shouldn't do this, we should do that. That's when you're like, that's
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great to be like, hey, look, we tried this, it didn't work. Or
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maybe the money didn't get there enough. Or maybe like there's, there's a
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there was a $750 that was given to everybody who was like right away. So
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they can buy groceries, they can do whatever, if they can do that. I don't know what
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it's for. But that's essentially what it's for. That
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is already done. But if they talk about like, well, that's not enough money. Well,
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that's what's agreed upon in Congress,
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agreed upon by the lawmakers that put this stuff into place. If
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they have a problem with it, bring it up in government next
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time before these storms hit. Not after. You
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can say this critique is not enough. You can say it's not enough. I get that. But
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then go back and say, hey, you know what? We have to understand that
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storms are changing. They're getting more intensified. Climate change
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is real. You don't even have to admit that. Just be like, hey, $750 doesn't
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sound like enough money. Can we up it? And how is
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that going to affect the budget? How is that going to affect the amount of money that's given to
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the people who need rescue efforts? And especially if it
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goes across a number of states, especially if it hits millions and millions of people, what
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is that number? That's not even up to me to decide. That's up for the lawmakers
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and the departments and everything to provide the information so that the decisions can
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be made. But then you have all these critiques, and
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all the one side's trying to do is trying to
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make the other side look bad, the side that's in government. It's just to
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make them look bad. That's all they're trying to do, because they want to get into power in
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this upcoming election. And this is not to say that Republicans are doing this,
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and it's just the Republicans. If everything was switched, if the
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Republicans were to say President Trump was actually president
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this time, And Biden's trying to get in, or Kamala Harris
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is trying to get in, and she's criticizing the same thing. It'll probably happen
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the same way. This is not a matter of Republicans against
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Democrats, or one doing better than the other. This is a
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matter of not politicking when it comes to natural disasters.
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Try to like, hey, what can I do? How can I help? You
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know what I mean? Like, let's look at some camaraderie for Americans,
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some camaraderie for the people of the country. This is not just to
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Americans. This is like if Canada had a natural disaster, like, how can
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we help? There'll be time for criticizing the laws and the way it was
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done after. Where's that camaraderie? You
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know, where is that patriotism that people always talk
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about? right? To help the citizens. Both sides should
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be coming together to doing what they can. And there was that with President Biden and
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some of the governors that were Republican governors. And they came out and they said good things. They said,
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hey, he actually said whatever we need, there's that ability, we
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can have all of that. But there needs to be
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more of that. Because what I saw and what I heard and what made headlines were
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some people that are in Congress, I'm not
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going to name their name, But who said that, you
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know, and put it out there, which is total BS and misinformation at
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its finest. It was basically the
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government, like the government in power, Biden and his administration is
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seeding, cloud seeding the
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storms to make them rapidly intensify so
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that the storm goes over Republican dominated
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states. and affects the voting for the
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future. I wouldn't be surprised if
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the Republicans lose the race, that that is an excuse that is
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given. So imagine this, that the president itself
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and the administration would take the powers that be and
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like the public servants and everything and cloud seed the
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storms to make them intensify more. It's not climate change, it's
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the government controlling the storms. to make sure
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that Republican dominated states are in disarray
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so when the election comes, they cannot vote. Imagine thinking
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that. It's not climate change that people
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have been talking about for the last 50, 60 years. It's
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the fact that the government doesn't want the election to go
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to the Republicans, so they're going to affect Republican states. And
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that was perpetuated over a number of news stations, over
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TikTok, over social media. And here's a clip just
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of somebody who is believing this stuff. Like, this
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is not just me saying this. These are people who are saying this. It's
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like the government controlling hurricanes. Here's that clip. Like
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this is absolutely insane for someone to think that. Not the
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fact that science and scientists around the world are
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saying climate change is bad. And the reason for the rapidly intensifying storms
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is because the ocean is so warm due to the
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climate warming. Right? That's the
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reason it's said by so many people. And
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it got to the point that meteorologists who are out there
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working their butts off to make sure that people have the information
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that they need because the storm is rapidly intensifying. We
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don't know when the evacuation orders are going to come. Hurricane lane
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went from a category one to a category four in like four or five hours.
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And so the big damage there was that people did not know enough to evacuate. Because
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a Category 1, Florida people will probably stay because they've lived through
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a Category 1 before. Category 4, those are pretty intensified winds.
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Are you looking at 100 mile an hour winds to like 165 mile
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an hour winds? That's a big difference. That could cause a lot of damage plus
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the flooding. So these meteorologists are
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working their butts off. Some of them are even getting emotional on
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TV. right?
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And because they can't fathom the fact that these storms are
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going to hurt people. These storms are going to affect people.
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Meteorologists are there to help people prepare for
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the weather. And yes, they're not always right. The
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predictions, models and stuff change. But these, they're
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out there online, you know, doing
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what they can to give people proper information. And what,
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how do people respond? Some people are offering them debt, are
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sending them death threats. Some people are giving them crap
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and harassing them, bullying them online. The
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fact that they're just trying to help people and inform people of the weather that
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is coming and what the preparation is and what to expect. They're
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saying, no, you're lying. You're just somebody for the government trying
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to get us and affect the way we're going to vote in the election. This
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is insane. And it doesn't help that
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people all the way at the top, like the
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Republican candidate, former President Trump, believes that
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sometimes having ocean property
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is good. So the fact that there's sea level rise says
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that, hey, more people are going to have ocean property. Right?
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So anybody who's on a coastline and the ocean and the sea level rises and
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the storm surge come up further and the ocean comes up further means a loss of
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land. Well, that's okay. You'll have more oceanfront property for everybody. That'll
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be good for real estate, which is false. It's actually bad.
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It's so bad. People will lose their property. They
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will lose their homes. And here he is a guy who's
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going to be president potentially. is
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ready to make those decisions and say, hey, you know what? Climate change isn't that bad.
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Even if it is, if there's sea level rise, it's OK. People have
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more oceanfront property. Who's going to
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have more oceanfront property? Who's going to be able
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to afford to live there? And who's going to be able to afford to realize that they
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can't live there and they can't sell their property when sea level rise
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does hit and ocean storm surges hit? and
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they lose their homes. Only the rich are going to be able to like, you know what? It's okay. I
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can afford it. I have four other homes, but the people who don't, the
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people in trailer parks, the people who have homes on the long, the ocean or
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along a river that can only afford one home and
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are only there for one home. Like most of us, if you can't
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sell your house, you can't buy another home somewhere else. Right?
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That's the equity you have in that home. If that home is gone and
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nobody will buy it because it's in water most of the year, or
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one part of the year, the dam's there, no insurance, you have to pay for it every year,
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where are they going to go? They can't go anywhere. But, you
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know, Donald Trump's rich friends can go somewhere. And I'm not
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favoring Republican over Democrat. But
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this is a guy who's running for president, who's having
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a problem, who says, hey, you know what? Sea level rise
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is here. Everybody's going to have more oceanfront property. It
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doesn't make sense. And it's just perpetuating these
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false narratives that, hey, climate change is okay. There's nothing we
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can do about it. We're not going to do anything. The governor of
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Florida has authorized the removal
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of the phrase climate change in
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all of their documents, all of the state government's documents. They
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even said that people can't even say climate change in a work-related, a
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government work-related forum. public meetings,
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they can't say climate change. You're talking to a co worker that's
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part of the state government, you cannot say climate change. You
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cannot mention you can't do studies on climate change. You can do studies on flooding,
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but you can't do studies on climate change. How
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are we supposed to get better? When we have people in power,
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who are doing these things, removing phrases that
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is literally causing their state to flood on a regular basis.
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And they have to spend more money fixing these cities and
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these towns. And then the people who live there
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are devastated, potentially lose their livelihoods, potentially
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lose their homes, are in debt, because
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they can't afford to buy another home, because the insurance isn't going to give
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them any money. Like,
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where's all this money coming from? How are we paying for this? How are
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the taxpayers of the US paying for this? This
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is what happens when you have politicians in place who are not
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doing anything about what is real, what is actually happening.
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How the changes are happening, they see it, they don't
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believe it, and they go against what everybody's saying.
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Just because they say people are overreacting, these scientists aren't real, it's
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not actually agreed upon by 97% of
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scientists, which is BS. Such
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BS. And it's costing people lives, and
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their homes and their livelihoods. You
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know, in capitalism as at its finest, you
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see people trying to fly out to get out because the
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driving is so difficult that flight tickets for
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flights out are getting higher and higher and higher as the storm approaches. So
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normally what would cost you $200 to fly out to a different state, the closest state
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that is not going to be affected. It's like $1,200, $800, $700, $1,200. There's
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people who are showing what the prices would be. They're gouging. That's
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what they're doing. They gouge because they can, because the demand is
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up. That's how capitalism works. It doesn't matter if
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this is an emergency and people are trying to get out, but people who can't afford a ticket
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for them or their families, they
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can't leave. And now they're at risk of,
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you know, being harmed. in a storm that could
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have been a Category 5, even a Category 3, which is still
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scary. And there still could have been a lot more damage than there was.
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It is devastating to watch people go through this. It's scary, but
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it's also frustrating to see the reactions and the lack of
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proper reaction and building of policies that
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will help the people of the US, the people of
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a specific country who is going through climate change
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consequences. But we have a
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chance as a people that's part of Democrat that are part of democratic societies,
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to vote in people who will do something about climate change, who
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vote in people who are not going to believe in these crazy, crazy
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schemes, or conspiracy theories. who
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want to criticize government policies to
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make them better to help the people later, not just to get into
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power, not just to take down a government, but to say,
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let's work together on this and let's help the American people. I
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have more respect for somebody who's not in power as
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part of a party that says, let's work together to make relief
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efforts better after these disasters, because we're going to see more of them. I
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would rather vote for somebody like that, even if I don't believe in
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their party structure, because they're willing to work with the
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government to make it better, than somebody to come up with some crazy
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conspiracy theory and pass it out
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and make sure that misinformation is out there to say,
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hey, you know what? Who cares?
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I want to be in power. You suck. You're doing this. You're cloud seeding.
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You're making the Republicans not vote because of this storm. You're
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controlling the weather. You're controlling the weather. This
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is like a scene out of like
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a Mike Myers movie. It's like Dr. Evil. Give
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me a break, people. Like, let's get back down
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to reality. Let's vote for people who want to work with government, whether
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they're in power or not, for the people that they're
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representing. Right? For their country, for
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the betterment of the country, not for the power in getting in. And this is not
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just the US, this is Canada, this is the UK, Australia, India,
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China, everybody. Let's vote for people who
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care more. If you can vote in a country, I know some of those
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countries you can't vote for the people, vote for
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somebody who will do something. Right? That's,
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that's my, that's the call to action. Vote for somebody that
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will actually work with government, whether in power or not, to
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help the people. That's the goal. That's
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what politicians should be doing. And what I'm seeing right now is
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disgraceful in some of these politicians pulling, like
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just pulling out of thin air, these conspiracy theories to
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try and bring down a government. Unreal. And
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it's literally a disgrace. It's sad. It's not even laughable. It's
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just sad. But that's the call to action. Let's go out. Let's
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do our research. Let's vote. And let's make our politicians
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accountable to helping their people. That's
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it for today's episode. I want to thank you for joining us. I apologize for doing
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the rant, but I feel like this is something that a lot of people are feeling.
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We see this all the time. I don't know if it's like a social media thing. I don't know
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if it's like a lack of education in schools. I'm not sure what's
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happening, but it's really distressful or stressful to
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watch. It really is. But I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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You know, let me know you can comment on the Spotify with
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this video, you can comment on YouTube, just in
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out to me on Instagram at how to protect the ocean. That's
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at how to protect the ocean. Let me know how you feel about this. When you see politicians saying
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these ridiculous things. I'd love to hear your thoughts and how you're going to
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vote in the future when you look at it and how you're holding your politicians
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accountable. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the How to Protect the
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Ocean podcast. I'm your host, Andrew Lewin. Have a great day. We'll talk to you next time,