If someone is living in a place that OBVIOUSLY looks to be CURRENTLY unlivable, take into consideration that they’re probably not fucking stupid and they can’t afford to move.
Yes, there's a clear difference between low-income living and whatever the fuck it is my city did with its fancy seafront "Innovation District." Conflating the two somehow only ever causes problems for people in the former category. www.inundationdistrict.com
INUNDATION DISTRICT is an award-winning feature-length film about the implications of one city’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new ...
This is not to say that we shouldn’t sue the shit out of real estate developers selling bills of goods in areas that will be threatened in a few decades, or that we shouldn’t be thinking about how to manage growth in areas that are beyond population limits.
We do need to find ways to help people living in unsafe areas to move, and that's been a need *everywhere* and since the 1980s.
That, or they are rich and entitled and convinced they have the right to ignore reality and make the rest of us pay for their privilege. Both sets are in play, though in the particular case of NC I agree it’s mostly the former. The latter tends to be beachfront and other “desirable” locations.
completely agree, except for the obscenely wealthy buying on the coasts of florida, etc. still, while doing all they can to work against the climate change fight. i won’t give them a second thought. regular folks - 💯