Back in the day, when Marco Rubio was asked about climate change, he would reply “I’m not a scientist.” However, as the evidence for climate change has mounted and the GOP mainstream opinion has shifted slightly, he has gone with the flow, so to speak. Today, he will tell you that climate change is real, but that nothing can be done about it without wrecking our economy. The implicit judgment there is that a few deaths and a few billion dollars in damage from fires, heat, and hurricanes annually represent acceptable collateral damage.
Well, Marco, what about now? Your home state is on its knees. It will take hundreds of billions of dollars to fix it. Virtually all of that will have to come from the federal government. Florida coastal property values are going to collapse. And it will almost certainly happen again, and again.
Does that sound like a good way to keep the economy humming? Does that sound like acceptable collateral damage to you?