My conspiracy theory is that billionaires like Musk and Gates believe in climate change but want it to happen because it will primarily genocide black Africans and the billionaires will not suffer from it.
They all have bunkers in New Zealand, in their minds, if it gets bad enough, it’ll simply mean they have to go live in compounds/bunkers near each other, and come drink each other’s wine all day. Many folks have pointed out how this will not work - the people who secure them, who fly the helicopters and jets, who make the food and carry the guns - they’re human beings too, and at the very last minute, they will act in their own best interests. So that seat on a jet for Bill Gates might just end up being filled by the pilot’s wife instead.
I think the 0.1%'s racism comes from the lack of action rather than a deliberate action. They know climate change is real, they know it’s accelerating. They know their actions are accelerating it and that it will mean suffering for an uncountable number of people. What they’re betting on is that by extracting as much wealth as quickly as possible they can protect themselves and their loved ones from the worst of it for as long as possible. If a lot of people need to suffer to make that happen, that’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make.
It’s just that all the systems that the 0.1% use to accumulate their wealth and power are also racist systems. Which they are totally happy to take the power and money but aren’t willing to do more than a token demonstration against the system that makes them. Cause that would put themselves at risk of losing something, and that is a thought the super rich cannot handle.
My conspiracy theory is that billionaires like Musk and Gates believe in climate change but want it to happen because it will primarily genocide black Africans and the billionaires will not suffer from it.
There, FTFY
Musk doing Roman salutes and Gates focussing on birth preventions in Africa instead of feeding the poor seems a bit too coincidental to me.
They all have bunkers in New Zealand, in their minds, if it gets bad enough, it’ll simply mean they have to go live in compounds/bunkers near each other, and come drink each other’s wine all day. Many folks have pointed out how this will not work - the people who secure them, who fly the helicopters and jets, who make the food and carry the guns - they’re human beings too, and at the very last minute, they will act in their own best interests. So that seat on a jet for Bill Gates might just end up being filled by the pilot’s wife instead.
But they don’t care, magical thinking run amok.
I think the 0.1%'s racism comes from the lack of action rather than a deliberate action. They know climate change is real, they know it’s accelerating. They know their actions are accelerating it and that it will mean suffering for an uncountable number of people. What they’re betting on is that by extracting as much wealth as quickly as possible they can protect themselves and their loved ones from the worst of it for as long as possible. If a lot of people need to suffer to make that happen, that’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make.
It’s just that all the systems that the 0.1% use to accumulate their wealth and power are also racist systems. Which they are totally happy to take the power and money but aren’t willing to do more than a token demonstration against the system that makes them. Cause that would put themselves at risk of losing something, and that is a thought the super rich cannot handle.