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And our governments are beholden to the rich because they can offer the best bribes.
Until the rich feels threatened by the climate catastrophe, nothing will happen or change.
Although we are seeing the first economic fallout from climate change, so there's a slim chance. The rich are going to see their precious economic growth slow and eventually stall. I don't know how they'll react to that.
Maybe they'll all flee to New Zealand. Or some other remote location. I doubt SpaceX is going to offer any way out for anyone but the musky chodelet.
I guess the rich's reaction depends on whether they think their hideaway will afford them the same privilege as they currently have. Maybe they'll try to bootstrap an Elysium like refuge on the moon if it's predicted that even New Zealand won't be safe from climate induced collapse.
Neat poem but also just plain wrong.
The poor and the mistreated people will suffer the most so the wealthy and the privileged don’t have to.
Just like how the children who collect your ingredients for chocolate have never even tasted it, the modern and developed world will carry on with apathy and ignorance.
Even so called catastrophes will not affect them, as they will be uplifted and protected.
It’s already happening now if you just look around.
The same way humans always have, by adapting to change. Yeast and bug protein powder, skyscraper farms and bioreactor grown meat.
Humans would likely survive on a completely sterile planet at this point, science is so advanced. But it would not be enough for 8 billion people, so a lot of forgotten and poor people will suffer.
Scientists have already figured out where the disasters will be concentrated, and the wealthy have already prepared themselves, governments included.
The doomer idea that the entire planet will become unlivable is just nonsense. There will be many shitty places to live where the heat will kill thousands every summer, or the weather becomes too extreme for stability.
But there will also be lots of places that just get more rain than they’d like. So once again, the poor and inequitably treated will die and suffer. Starting to notice a pattern yet?
If you’re just seriously sitting around expecting society to collapse to solve this problem then you’ve already lost.
Yes, none of that is going to happen, thankfully.
It’s just going to result in more powerful storms and extreme weather spread throughout the planet.
Lots of life will die off but it will be absolutely nothing compared to the shit our planet has seen in the past and recovered from.
Lots of good people working against it as well.
The good news is, they will start to feel it. Fix this shit now is becoming more and more mainstream. Just wait until sea rise consumes their costal mansions. Just wait until a hurricane destroys their self insured Manhattan sky scraper. Just wait until an EF5 tornado wrecks their middle of nowhere mansion. We won't be waiting long.
We had the extra luxury beach resort owned by the family of our tourism Ministry (sounds like a conflict of interest but she wasn't in charge then) destroyed by a hurricane, but the climate change scepticism of the government per se remained untouched.
Your reasoning assumes they are intelligent enough to understand concepts like causation or correlation. They aren't.