What a perfect microcosm story for why we're completely screwed by climate collapse. People would complain about how heavy handed the symbolism is if this was in a movie
I know you're just repeating a common joke, but people would absolutely not complain, in fact they would applaud it as subtle and complex and needing 200 IQ to understand. See all the discourse around "Don't Look Up" which must have been the most heavy handed movie I've seen in a decade, and people praised it to high heavens foe being a "clever metaphor" etc
I feel like it's only possible to come across as heavy handed if the satire is objectively less subtle than reality. In a world where climate science has shown us our future for decades now and people continue to bury their head in the sand, it's really just documentary about what would genuinely happen if a large scale disaster were to occur. I wouldn't say it's a particularly clever metaphor, but I think you can't satirize climate change denial hard enough at this point.
If it collapses and he survives, it'll be blamed on communist earthbenders. No introspection whatsoever. The commies sabotaged his perfectly safe mansion
I've got a sneaking suspicion that they have somehow jacked up their insurance policy on the house and everything in it (or that they claim is in it) and are just going to use this as an excuse to rake it in on a property that's been doomed for some time now.
Motherfuckers like this are ruining coasts across the country. Well, really its land/real estate developers but its a huge issue in the Great Lakes area too where basically every inch of land near a coastline is snapped up and clear cut for mcmansion building, which destroys the trees and vegetation that held these cliffs together.
Seen dozens of houses slide down cliffs and i would cheer if not for the environmental destruction they caused in the first place
When I am in charge all bodies of water will be surrounded by an appropriate amount of park space before anyone can build anything that isn't a shipping port or yknow, stuff to do with boats. You shouldn't be able to effectively privatize a lake or because now the only way to access it is by trespassing.
I've got a friend who has a big family property on lake Ontario. It's one of those setups where its not super wide but stretches a mile back from the lake. The houses are built away from the lake with the exception of basically a wall-less shack near the water to hang out at.
I was talking to his grandfather who had been there for half a century at that point and he was showing me how much land had eroded, something like 50-100 feet of land stretching into the lake was just gone and a big tree was a year or two from succumbing.
I never looked too much into it, but apparently there's mechanisms to control the water level of the lake, to keep the water level high for large ships transporting goods. But the higher water level of course leads to more errosion. So the people who want more days in the year to dock huge ships keep the level higher, which effects everyone along the lake.
The errosion was pretty even too, there was a cleared area for lake chillin, and forest on either side and the lake did not pick favorites.
It was shocking how fast it happens.
The other thing that shocked me about the lake, is the beach is made of like 60% tampon applicators. They were everywhere, every color, at every state of decay. You could barely see the rocks below the tampon applicators and other plastic refuse. It's like they shipped every tampon applicator from around the country to lake Ontario to be disposed of.
His family should have taken power of attorney from him and placed him in a safe environment by now but I guess his family doesn't actually care about his well being that much.