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Don’t worry, climate change only really affects poor people. You are safe in your affluence and your social capital.
Oh wait
To clarify, based on replies:
Look, I love, say, The Princess Bride. The people who made it made something good, and I wish them good things. Instead, at least two of them just lost their homes. My heart goes out to them — along with the many, many others I don't know at all who just suffered the same.
The post above is •not• about who deserves sympathy, and whose suffering we can sneer at.
The post is about who should feel safe in the face of climate change. (The answer is “no one.”)
I get the feeling that a lot of folks (and not just billionaires) think they can ride out climate change, that their affluence will keep them relatively safe, that it’s a distant concern that will come for Those Other People first.
To that I say: You really think you’re more protected than Billy Crystal? Carry Elwes? Eugene Levy? Paris Hilton? John Goodman? They all just lost their homes, despite all the fame and fortune a person could wish for. What's keeping •you• safe? The answer, I’m afraid, is “nothing but luck.”
@inthehands yeah I had a thought earlier, "maybe now that a lot of rich people have been hurt by it, there will be more effort to respond to climate change"
However I'm not enthusiastic about the probability. I wish I could muster more hope but I can't.
@http_error_418 @inthehands The far right thinks everybody even remotely associated with Hollywood and to the left of Clint Eastwood is a child-sacrificing demon worshipper.
In fact, many of them are actively expressing schadenfreude as we speak _because_ they’re too dumb to realize that most of the impacted people aren’t famous Hollywood types.
They won’t care, and will do everything they can to continue not caring. Because they hate us.
@http_error_418 @inthehands Where I find hope, to the extent I am able, is that even they won’t be able to ignore or pretend forever.
Expecting empathy is a lost cause, but maybe self-interest will do the trick. Assuming they smarten up.
I just hope that happens sooner rather than later, before it’s too late.
@http_error_418 @inthehands The Woolsey fire in Nov 2018 took many celebrity & wealthy homes, and not much action, I’d expect the same again.
@http_error_418 Elon Musk is blaming the DEI efforts of the LA fire department, so I wouldn't hold my breath @inthehands
/∞
∫ Yeah there's the affluent rich and the powerful rich, and the powerful rich don't really give a shit about the affluent rich any more than they do about you.
So no, sadly, the game will go on until all the board is ashes.
@http_error_418 @inthehands not when even richer people pretend it isn't an issue...