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[–] 50 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

But a select few have so much money, they can ignore the consequenses for the duration of their lives. They don't care what happens after that anyway.

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  • [–] 14 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

    Can they, though? I really cannot understand the appeal of spending one's old age in a bunker. Not to mention knowing that your grandkids (most of them have multiple kids and seem to disproportionately care about "legacy") will inherit an uninhabitable planet. You can survive in a bunker, but you cannot, for example, grow all kinds of exotic fruit in a bunker. You cannot take long walks in a bunker (I know they're building huge bunkers but even that will get old after a couple years). Ultimately, they're building life term prisons for themselves and their families, which is somehow fitting even if little consolation.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    It would take nuclear war to require the rich to hide in bunkers. Climate change alone will not make the planet uninhabitable for humans. Of course, climate change is not the only factor contributing to the impending global ecological collapse, but even in a worst case collapse scenario, humans will survive. Life will be extremely unpleasant for most of us, but the billionaires would be just fine. That is, if we allow them to continue existing after their system of capitalism destroys everything. Hopefully it doesn’t take total collapse for us to gain class consciousness and achieve socialism though.

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