I also hate the rhetoric of ‘why didn’t they just leave’ whenever a storm is coming. Aside from the fact that many of us just can’t, a lot of us don’t want to – a lot of us have communities to care for & responsibilities to take care of. To me, leaving would feel like abandoning
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For folks posting their own screenshots: y’all realize that the timing of flights is important, esp in a hurricane, right? There’s no guarantee that flights will still be going tonight, let alone on Friday; that’s why prices were so high for Wednesday night last-minute flights
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It’s so funny to me how some folks will expend more energy trynna discredit people going through a natural disaster than actually helping said people... Y’all are weird.
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“Yes being rich means you get to be safe and is unfair but there’s no solution to that.” jsbsksnksns boy have I got some news for you about socialism and the redistribution of wealthpic.twitter.com/DGQ2l1l7Lb
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Climate Change doesn’t see race, since it’s not a person and don’t care about you skin color. However, as you summed up perfectly, people with lower incomes are more vulnerable, and there is an imbalance on income distribuitions per ethnicity.
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Racism also plays a major role in how assistance post disaster is provided: see Puerto Rico vs Harvey or Sandy vs Katrina. Environmental racism/classism is very real in general and consequences worsen w/ climate change then remain strategically ignored.
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Solution: take the money from the rich and redistribute it
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