The Courage to be Fried

The Christian state of Florida, in the person of its governor Ronald of the Saints, has adopted legislation which relegates climate change to its proper place as a hoax by the Heathen Chinee. A former Trumpster sceptic turned tangerine-squeezer, the sainted Ronald did his bit for the greatest economy in the world by largely removing the noun climate from the statute pamphlet and banning wind turbines anywhere near the state's considerable endowment of coastline. Florida suffers increasingly from rising seas, extreme heat and severe storms, but since those are all God's doing there seems little purpose in causing unnecessary dents in fossil fuel consumption. Polls apparently show that a majority of Floridians believe that climate change is real and that somebody ought to do something about it; which doubtless explains why Ronald of the Saints was voted in eighteen months ago with just under sixty per cent of the vote.