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In reply to the discussion: Ok. the message on DU is clear. Be glad with what you might get, serf! [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Unless they think that climate change is something only poor people have to worry about. Hell, maybe some of them do. I can't imagine though, that the high and mighty 1% are truly so ignorant as to think there is no danger. Much of what happens politically, in various governments, is through their interference and direction, I suspect that they have enough power and wealth to change policies to promote better environmental standards, better education... hell, better everything.
I also suspect though, that everything for the majority of them is second to money. They live lives that you and I can only dream of - and they want those lives to continue to be such a dream, for as long as possible. One day, they will have no choice but to suffer through the disasters brought about by their greed and shortsightedness, and when that time comes... I wonder if it will occur to them, that they might have made a difference. That they might have made THE difference.
It's not just about people like me, the poor class, the middle class, the working class.. it's about humanity. We're all kind of in this together. Even them - and the realization of this fact will probably be very painful, when it comes for them at last.