No, billionaires won’t “escape” to space while the world burns

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Re: No, billionaires won’t “escape” to space while the world burns

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Post by redis_mlc » Thu, Jul 08, 2021, 8:56 AM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #10

hntroll1443 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You two are the ones without integrity. According to business as usual on earth, is it burning? No. If you don't like it that temperatures are in fact right in the middle of what the earth has been doing for billions of years, take it up with your therapist or something, but for god's sake, stop relentlessly pushing senseless fear.

La-la-la hands in the ears denial is conforting, but scientific consensus says otherwise: that the temperature rise we're facing is man caused. For starters it should be obvious, that just because something happens ocassionally through cause X, doesn't mean all of its instances happen by cause X. That is, the fact that the Earth has had (and will have) cycles of higher/lower temperatures doesn't mean that this partic…

Ok smart-ass, what are you going to do about it except shame people who state the obvious, which is that we literally don't have to do anything, and nobody has a plan anyway?

Exactly nothing, right?

The denial I mainly see is people like you waiting for somebody else to fix our climate, all the while furiously virtue signalling.

Re: No, billionaires won’t “escape” to space while the world burns

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Post by chriselles » Thu, Jul 08, 2021, 9:49 AM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #3

My understanding is that several of them (including Peter Thiel) have bought property in New Zealand as a hedge against climate change, wildfires, and societal collapse in other countries.

Yes.

We have a small holiday place in Lake Wanaka right down the road from Peter Thiel’s block of bare land and his substantial but not ludicrous holiday home.

I suspect a fair few who planned on NZ as their international bolt hole are now a bit confused.

They likely planned on a terrible catastrophe with enough warning to get here.

Instead they received a minor catastrophe with air travel lock downs where even a private G650 is not permitted entry.

I’m of the opinion that all this doomsday prepping by the wealthy is simply an unconventional insurance policy for extreme/unlikely events.

Basic and moderate preparations for reasonable likelihood events makes great sense.

Extreme preparations don’t make financial sense, but I suspect are done for the same reasons some people of lesser means seem to dangerously over invest in disaster preparation, it’s the perception of control and order amidst a macro environment they feel they cannot influence, control, or predict.

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