Right now, Florida’s waterways are flooded with at least three different types of toxic algae and seaweed. Literal thousands of dead animals are piling up on the beaches, and at least fifteen people have been sent to the hospital with respiratory distress. This isn’t the first year we’ve been dealing with this, but it’s gotten notably worse and is only going to get even more worse from here.
This problem could be handled and cleaned up of it weren’t for the fact that our Governor, Rick Scott, cares more about his political sway and corporate goons than our waterways. The runoff getting dumped into the water is creating a thriving environment for these toxic algae species, and policy to help curtail the waste is repeatedly being blocked by politicians.
Here are a bunch of sources if you want to know more, but be warned that many of them contain pictures of dead wildlife.
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