I keep saying this - Disney does not need Florida. At all. Since their redirection in the Aughts, Disney has been exclusively in the business of the long game. This is why they bought Star Wars with zero concrete ideas on what to do with it. They saw how adult dismissal of the prequels gave way to ironic appreciation and genuine youth appreciation, because Star Wars doesn't have to be good to be profitable - it's fucking Star Wars. same with the Muppets, and Marvel, etc etc.
Disney is well aware of what is coming, ecologically, for Florida. Upkeep costs of a mini-city in a slowly sinking swampland are only rising, and some day the balance sheets will no longer make financial sense. Disney is going to squeeze everything they can from Florida before having to make decisions "with a heavy heart" and all that bs, probably in 50 years or so. And they already built an escape bunker in Shanghai (complete with Winnie the Pooh ride!), so...
Go down and find some male baby sea turtles then! Oh wait, you can't, the sand is too warm. Hot sand equals no males equals uh oh
When this becomes impossible to deny you will of course retreat to "wuh-wuh-well it may be happening but we didn't cause it this it's just what happens sometimes for no reason at all!" But this is a species that survived many natural (slow) cycles. If we don't make it out of this with the sea turtle population intact, that's an extremely strong indicator that we failed our duty to be safe keepers of His creation
I keep saying this - Disney does not need Florida. At all. Since their redirection in the Aughts, Disney has been exclusively in the business of the long game. This is why they bought Star Wars with zero concrete ideas on what to do with it. They saw how adult dismissal of the prequels gave way to ironic appreciation and genuine youth appreciation, because Star Wars doesn't have to be good to be profitable - it's fucking Star Wars. same with the Muppets, and Marvel, etc etc.
Disney is well aware of what is coming, ecologically, for Florida. Upkeep costs of a mini-city in a slowly sinking swampland are only rising, and some day the balance sheets will no longer make financial sense. Disney is going to squeeze everything they can from Florida before having to make decisions "with a heavy heart" and all that bs, probably in 50 years or so. And they already built an escape bunker in Shanghai (complete with Winnie the Pooh ride!), so...
Go down and find some male baby sea turtles then! Oh wait, you can't, the sand is too warm. Hot sand equals no males equals uh oh
When this becomes impossible to deny you will of course retreat to "wuh-wuh-well it may be happening but we didn't cause it this it's just what happens sometimes for no reason at all!" But this is a species that survived many natural (slow) cycles. If we don't make it out of this with the sea turtle population intact, that's an extremely strong indicator that we failed our duty to be safe keepers of His creation
wow so you think we control the heat of the sand, just wow.
It is the height of hubris to think that your actions do not have consequences.