Kim Ross with ReThink Energy Action Florida speaking at a press conference in Tallahassee on Jan. 24, 2024 (photo credit: Mitch Perry)
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Youth climate activists gathered on the steps of the Old Capitol building in Tallahassee Wednesday morning with a direct message for state lawmakers: Start taking “immediate and bold action on climate change.”
But there’s a quantum distance between what the activists desire and what the GOP-controlled Legislature is actually doing in the 2024 session regarding the issue.
“We have seen the fossil fuel industry successfully escape accountability through its many allies in the Legislature,” acknowledged Cameron Driggers, the founder and executive director with the Youth Action Fund, at the press conference.
“We have seen local initiatives to reduce carbon emissions banned from taking effect … now more than ever, it is time for Florida’s young people to channel our passionate resolve for immediate climate action directly to the decision makers in this state. We are tired of being seen but not heard. Florida is on the frontlines of this crisis and refuse to wait around and wait for our leaders to act like it.”