why make polluters pay? Let me demonstrate using some books The historical setting of The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton is the unnamed 1935 Labor Day Hurricane a category 5 Hurricane that was not surpassed in strength until 1988’s Hurricane Gilbert that’s a 53 year difference less than 30 years later in 2017 Hurricane Irma gained strength to become a category 5 as seen in Oye by Melissa Mogollon and less than two weeks later category 5 Hurricane Maria strikes Puerto Rico as is painfully described in LasMadres by Esmeralda Santiago as a lifelong Floridian I’ve noticed a trend of hurricanes becoming much less predictable and much stronger recently Hurricane Debby went from striking my area directly to surpassing us within just a few days leaving those in the Panhandle very little time to evacuate and prepare fiction is quickly becoming non fiction in Florida because the biggest contributors to climate change Oil producers Are allowed to operate without any consequences we need to make oil companies pay Please click on the link in my bio to join the movement and hold polluters accountable