Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 14:39:21 JST Paul Cantrell

   Don’t worry, climate change only really affects poor people. You are safe in your affluence and your social capital.

   Oh wait

   https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/09/celebrities-lose-homes-destroyed-california-fires-billy-crystal-cary-elwes-eugene-levy

   • Embed this notice
     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 15:21:08 JST Paul Cantrell

     in reply to

     • Peter

     @PeterLG
     I’m sure their position in life affords them all kinds of advantages.

     You want to bet that means they’re all doing fine now? Feeling safe? Not shaken, not hurt?

   • Embed this notice
     Peter (peterlg@theblower.au)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 15:21:09 JST Peter

     in reply to

     @inthehands

     Those folk can afford the insurance that will let them rebuild lickety-split. The average person can't.

   • Embed this notice
     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 23:12:14 JST Paul Cantrell

     in reply to

     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.”)

     Rich Felker repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 23:17:17 JST Paul Cantrell

     in reply to

     I get the feeling that a lot of folks 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.”

     Rich Felker repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     Advanced Persistent Teapot (http_error_418@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 23:30:56 JST Advanced Persistent Teapot

     in reply to

     @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.

   • Embed this notice
     Jona 🐳 (jlundell@ioc.exchange)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 14:46:01 JST Jona 🐳

     in reply to

     @inthehands Well, one of their homes, but yeah…

   • Embed this notice
     Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD (ericfielding@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 14:46:01 JST Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

     in reply to

     • Jona 🐳

     @jlundell @inthehands Yes, it seems likely that Paris Hilton has at least one more residence in another location.