I hate how these disasters are always benchmarked in dollars. Like yes I guess that's the most convenient metric but it obfuscates the human cost
Also interesting to note that musk could cut a check for this twice over and still have 100 billion left over
They're using incarcerated slaves to fight the fires, in sure they're absolutely miserable that they can't use slavery to rebuild their McMansions too.
Theres nothing stopping them from using prison slave labour to rebuild. Thats what they're there for. And california just voted to keep slavery.
It’s the only way to get a westerner to understand is if you bite your nails over how sad the money will be.
sorry sweaty but climate change mitigations are too expensive and disruptive
I often think of that Simpsons bit that goes like "Lisa needs braces. dental plan", except it's like "another environmental disaster. CLIMATE CHANGE"
This kind of thing should make people change, but I feel like it won't.
Can someone convert the numbers to dollars spent shipping bombs for genocide?
for context, we know that Biden admin sent at least 100bn to Israel and Ukraine
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-drafts-100-billion-foreign-aid-package-including/story?id=104059871
'bout 8 trillion
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https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/summary
: “But think of how much SHAREHOLDER VALUE was created in the short-term!”Crazy thought but maybe don't build In a place that catches fires super easy.
Or at least do what the tornado alley people do and just back the house up when the fires over.
meanwhile they'll rebuild in the same shitty suburban neighborhoods with no multiple access for emergency services or any number of bare minimum improvements. the cycle just continues on till the next time there's a wet winter that raises up a ton of fuels
