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Nantucket Island is one of those funny precarious places at risk from climate change. All those rich CEOs and executives with their 2nd homes there, do they car
by morkalork 1y ago
Nantucket Island is one of those funny precarious places at risk from climate change. All those rich CEOs and executives with their 2nd homes there, do they care? Do they connect the dots between the externalities of their companies and what they lobby the government for to the fate of that little island?
- fred_is_fred 1y agoI think being a CEO means being intentionally blind to externalities.
- brookst 1y agoWhy would they care? If it floods they’ll just buy another one.
- shermantanktop 1y agoThat’s the essence of financial independence—-having resilience to events that would be catastrophic for a person with less money. But once people don’t have to care, they tend not to care much at all, and so it seems to reduce empathy as well.
- xgkickt 1y agoThey’d rather spend an extraordinary amount increasing the island’s elevation.
- xhkkffbf 1y agoLook at the two estates that former President Obama bought on Martha's Vineyard and Oahu. Does it look like he thinks that global warming is going to be a factor in his life or the lives of his children?