Chris Costello from the Sierra Club is the featured FLVCS June Monthly Meeting speaker. She will be speaking on the potential devastating impact of the Florida MCORES (CS/SB 7068) legislation.
Roads to Ruin and the Climate Connection
by Cris Costello , Sierra Club
In 2019, the Florida state legislature passed, MCORES (CS/SB 7068), a bill to authorize the design and construction of 330 miles of new toll roads through the heart of rural Florida. If built, these new toll roads will destroy large swaths of Florida’s last remaining rural lands and communities, pollute waterways, and threaten endangered wildlife, including the iconic Florida panther. Road building alone will immediately destroy more than 52,800 acres of undeveloped areas and promote unsustainable sprawl which could destroy hundreds of thousands of additional acres of land and wetlands. While there is no public demand for more toll roads, the public cry for a clean, renewable energy future gets louder each day. Fossil fuel consumption negatively impacts the environment and contributes to climate change.
More roads = More CO2 and More NO2 greenhouse gases.
Sea level rise and saltwater intrusion already wreak havoc in Miami and the Florida Keys which experienced flooding for 42 consecutive days in 2019; we have no time to lose. The No Roads to Ruin Coalition aims to stop this toll road debacle in its tracks.
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