Environmental Catastrophe Affects Us Disproportionately

A business-as-usual approach to our planet’s environment means that unprecedented levels of suffering will be visited upon a huge percentage of the world’s population.

Decent people see this as morally unacceptable, given that the technology exists to avert a great deal of this misery.  Unfortunately, how “decent people” perceive this set of problems has very little bearing on how things will turn out.

As suggested in the meme here, wealthy people have the means to avert all conceivable aspects of environmental disaster.  They can buy whatever food and water is still available; they can move to higher ground, and build walls around their property and hire more police to keep the masses of starving climate refugees off their tennis courts.

The vast majority of the scourge of environmental ruin will land squarely upon the people who a) were least responsible for causing it, and b) are financially unable to protect themselves from it.