Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/18/im-not-a-climate-change-guy-says-a-guy-about-to-lose-his-home-to-climate-change.html
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The question isn’t “are you a climate change guy.” It’s “are you a living underwater type of guy.”
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Dude, for $500k I’ll sell you some more sand. Call me.
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For a lot of these people, this is their second or third home. So even if they lose these houses, it still hasn’t really sunk in that this is a global problem we need to address.
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“I’m not a climate change guy,” says a guy about to lose his home to climate change
“I’m not a wildfire guy,” says a guy about to lose his home to a wildfire.
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The next guy you meet who isn’t “a climate change guy” - ask him how he stands on terraforming Mars.
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LOVE how the solution he proposes (right at the end of the segment) is for the GOVERNMENT to come in and throw money at yearly sacrificial sand dunes. The “Billions of dollars worth of property” isn’t public land or roadways or schools… So he wants a wealth subsidy for having his [2nd or 3rd] home on the encroaching ocean?
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I’m going to paraphrase here. “They said this beach would be gone by 2000, but it’s 2024 and it’s still here!” After you’ve been spending millions of dollars hauling in sand to protect it. Had nothing been done, it would be gone already.
“I’m not a climate change guy.” Science and nature do not care whether you believe in them or not, unlike religion. You are literally watching the direct effects of climate change, and just thinking ‘shit happens’ or what?
“What are we supposed to do, just let $2 billion dollars worth of property get destroyed?” Yes, probably. It’s inevitable at this point. You are throwing good money after bad. You aren’t just a victim of climate change, but of the sunk cost fallacy.
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Soon to be “I’m not a house-having guy.”
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even if it stares them right in the face, people still dont get it. or dont want to, because acknowledging it would mean defeat (especially in the case of a homeowner, who has no chance to save his house at the beach).
at least some do, eventually;
“Global warming is real,” said Cutter, wading through puddles in his ice cleats. “I never thought it was, but it is.”
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More paraphrasing:
“Yes we may need to spend $1m a year on sand. We just need the state to help with that. To preserve the properties.”
These ‘we don’t believe in science’ types are typically ruggedly individualistic people who tend to prefer independence from and rejection of state intervention.
But “we just need the state to help” sounds a lot like socialism. 
It’s a shame the follow-up question wasn’t: “if you lived inland would you be prepared to pay extra taxes so the state could save these properties?”
Where the fuck does he think the state gets its money from?
Not facing reality will be the downfall of homo sapiens.
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Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” So the government assistance is ok when it’s protecting the in group.
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That dude in the cap is sooooo god damn deluded/fooling himself.
No, the state shouldn’t protect your $2 billion dollar “investment”, because you chose poorly on what to invest in, and it’s not going to be worth that kind of money in the future. Or rather, it’s not an investment, but something you paid for and enjoyed for awhile, but now it isn’t tenable. Sorta like a nice sports car that starts to fall apart after 10 years. It was fun while it lasted.
While there are poor and middle class communities that we do need to basically buy out and move inland, rich assholes like this with vacation cottages on the beach are on their own. Spend $300k on moving some houses inland.
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Well, it WAS worth 2 billion. Maybe a lot less soon. The question is, will the value drop to zero before or after you want to sell.
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But then the question is - who the hell would you sell it to?
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Aquaman, obviously 
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To sell it you’d have to find a sucker. There’s a sucker born every minute, last I heard. This guy just can’t believe that HE is the sucker who bought a property that’s shedding value like Greenland is shedding ice.
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