This project focus on the importance of environmental issues specifically the restoration of everglades national park on Florida state politics. This paper requires students to consider two competing state goals and determine if these goals are mutually sustainable. Can Florida continue to grow its population and its economy through low taxes and cheap land while at the same time maintain its unique ecosystem? Using Michael Grunwald’s book The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise as their main source student will produce a nine-page essay on the balance between economic growth and environmental restoration. Answer the following questions in the paper:
1. using Michael Grunwald’s book The Swamp, explain how the developers of florida viewed the everglades and tried to conquer it.
2. what were the ecological consequences?
3. what were the political forces that created the political will to restore the everglades specifically and how did the republicans and democrats come together to create the biggest ecological restoration project in history?
4. What lessons from everglade’s restoration are important to remember for enviormental restoration and the battle against global warming?
Please, use all resources from Michael Grunwald’s book The Swamp.
Final papers will be submitted through Turnitin, so please no plagarism.
