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> "The people who can afford to pay for this can also afford to avoid the worst effects of climate change, probably much cheaper while throwing the rest of us u
by blooalien 3y ago
> "The people who can afford to pay for this can also afford to avoid the worst effects of climate change, probably much cheaper while throwing the rest of us under a bus."
They think they can avoid the worst effects of climate change, but I'd wager they're shockingly wrong about that. They'll more likely only delay their misery for a while longer than the rest of us.
You're 110% right that they'll surely try their very best to "throw everyone else under the bus" though. They've already show their true colors pretty clearly. No reason they'll suddenly get their shit together and grow the hell up now.
- anonzzzies 3y ago> They'll more likely only delay their misery for a while longer than the rest of us. Yep, but they will have died of natural age. So for the coming decades, people with money can avoid the effects (they can just move, buy more cooling/heating/electric, get food anyway etc) and then they die. The next generation will be similar, and so on, until even the rich cannot get away. Many people who care and want to change cannot do anything or at least feel they cannot (a child-less one-Prius family driving less is not exactly a feeling of impact).
- squirtlebonflow 3y agoSo is the solution to reate ways for people to live for 300 years?
- mock-possum 3y agoEh, there’ll be a pretty sharp turn within the timeframe of 20 years or so, maybe, but nothing real drastic is going to shift over the course of a year - I mean, short of a nuclear attack. Thing all just get measurably worse, poor people will get gut with the worst of it. I don’t think it’ll be bad enough for the jet set crowd.