Florida Will Try To Kill You / CD Davidson-Hiers and Jeff VanderMeer

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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CD Davidson-Hiers and Jeff Vandermeer speak with Chuck about their article "Is Florida Becoming a Failed State?" published October 11th, 2022 by The Nation. This week's Hangover Cure and new Question from Hell. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/florida-hurricane-ian/ CD Davidson-Hiers is a native Floridian who grew up on a 40-acre horse farm in North Florida. Her work has appeared in the Bitter Southerner, Flamingo Magazine, and USA Today. She works for the nonprofit Education Writers Association while also overseeing the Florida Student News Watch, an organization to mentor new journalists. Her work covering the US Covid-19 vaccine rollout received recognition from NPR, The Washington Post, Soledad O’Brien, and other national news outlets. Jeff VanderMeer’s award-winning novel Annihilation is set in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. His environmental advocacy has included helping save cypress swamp in North Florida and sponsoring research into the endangered frosted flatwood salamander. A 35-year resident of Florida, he has previously written about the state for, among others, Current Affairs and The Los Angeles Times.

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0:00.0	Oh, it's a catalice you don't have to be.
0:07.0	It's a catalice you don't have to be.
0:10.0	Oh, you're welcome Neil.
0:15.0	Oh, you're welcome Neil.
0:18.0	Thank you to Richard for playing the jam this part. This is hell.
0:37.0	manufacturing descent since 1996.
0:45.0	This is hell, and we start this week by discussing the role profit seeking development of Florida's natural environment played in the
0:54.4	devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian. In a few minutes we will consider the real damage
0:59.8	done by Hurricane Ian, not only when it made landfall in Florida nearly a month ago, but the long-term
1:05.2	damage that will linger far into Florida's future.
1:09.6	The damage is exacerbated by the building boom under Governor Ron
1:13.2	Desantis and his Republican predecessors who opened up vast swaths of
1:17.2	nature to deep-pocketed developers. They drained swamps deemed useless
1:21.8	despite those same swamps being nature's protection
1:24.7	against hurricanes like Ian. That vulnerability to so-called natural
1:29.3	disasters along with the response to the pandemic in Florida have combined in ways that I have not heard connected before
1:36.8	until reading the piece we'll be discussing today.
1:39.6	Coming up, we will be speaking with C. D. Davidson Hires and Jeff Vandermeer, who co-wrote the Nation magazine article,
1:48.0	Is Florida becoming a failed state? Large parts of Florida should be mangrove thick, its prickly swampland and unforgiving
1:56.1	marshy wilderness for our own survival.
1:59.2	CEDE is a native Floridian who grew up on a 40-acre horse farm in North Florida.
2:05.3	She works for the nonprofit Education Writers Association while also overseeing the Florida
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