Not as much of a celebrity as those mentioned in the articles but the actor Joe Flaniggan (From Stargate Atlantis) has as well.
Joe Flanigan on Instagram
“Firefighters have never seen anything like this in their lives. I have heard that said countless times in the past two days, and I have lost my home before to a California fire, now another,” he wrote. “Hopefully we can come together as a people to take climate change on. We have the tools and could do it if we tried. There is no downside.”
i always feel somewhat uncomfortable when people rich enough to have a mansion in Malibu preach about climate change
Good thing they can all afford to buy another outright wherever they so please I guess.
so if you can afford something its fine if it just burn? and even if they can afford a new one, its still their home. you can rebuild it, but it wont be the same
I mean, they can take the hit and do whatever they so please afterwards, sure memories blah blah blah, but like, having a home to live in without having to worry is a tad better than that I think.
Everything is relative and losing your home as Joe the Carpenter is as worse as losing your home as a millionaire.
Ofcourse most can but a new house, but photo albums and other personal stuff can't usually be replaced.
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9,000 other people's homes were destroyed too, I don't see them in the headlines
The more climate chanve effects the rich the more action we will see done.
Yeah but that's what large amounts of money allows, security, they only have to deal with the memories being gone and at the end of the day, that's just a temporary thing, while Joe the Carpenter has to deal with both the memories being gone and the fact that he is now homeless.
It's a small setback for them, it's an entirely life changing thing for poor old Joe the Carpenter.
That's not the point. Thousands of people lost their homes, this article focuses on the few people privileged enough to just buy a new one whenever they want. We shouldn't focus on people who's biggest problem when their mansion burns down is "my new mansion just won't be the same" in a tragedy like this
Man I hope Young got his guitar. He's been using Old Black since the 60's and it's the one item in the whole world that launched him into the spotlight. It'd be like if Woody Nelson's Trigger was gone, it's part of the man.
Right on Butler's birthday, too.
True, but your post makes me think: do you see many really happy millionaires? They all seem pretty terrible at keeping their lives in check. Of course their lives are more in the spotlight and we're bound to hear more about their negative drama because it sells. That brings a load.
I guess we're both really grasping at straws because neither of us are rich (I assume) and we don't really know what it's like.
I'm also wondering if people that get rich fast have time to build resistance for major negative events in life. You see a lot of actors backfire on stuff that us "regular folk" manage to deal with pretty well (albeit through therapy or whatever, we manage in the end if we try. Celebrities have drugs and parties which are proven to not help)
Interesting assumption that wealthy people don't spend a similar percentage of their overall wealth on their homes.
Just because you're wealthy doesn't mean you *have* to buy a mansion.
No, but if you expect sympathy when you own several houses and can build another and replace everything in it without blinking an eye at the decision because it would cost nothing to you....You're barking up the wrong tree
I can't feel sorry for them. The people I feel sorry for are those who did lose everything and will actually have to start from scratch and work hard to rebuild any of it
Celebrities don't deserve to have their homes burn down any more than regular folk. Sure they can probably quickly get another but you're still incinerating all their possessions and shit thats personal to them. Not to mention there are a lot of non-celebrities or not extremely wealthy people living back there as well.
yeah sure they can afford to buy a new house, im sure they're fucking stoked their old house burnt down you win
Wow... poor fucking Joe It was only just recently that I was watching some recent interviews with him and saw some things about his great family life and home, and now all that I saw is just gone. That puts a real heart wrenching spin on it for me, I love the guy, what a sad thing to see...
who gives a shit. the entire city of paradise burnt down and many people died. why am i supposed to care about a celebrities house specifically?
A single tear will be shed for the celebrities that lost their homes
Like they'll be fine. What about all the other run of the mill folks?
https://news.sky.com/story/dave-grohl-takes-food-to-california-firefighters-11553423
Dave Grohl takes food to California firefighters
this is a neat story to come out of this though
https://youtu.be/e3z09VRZ6to
Pretty sure most people keep some irreplacable shit at home.
Yeah, they're more privileged than us, but they still lost everything.
the headlines are mostly focused on how many people died instead and how Trump is blaming forest management instead of the massive drought caused by climate change.
Well we can still have empathy. Maybe they have stuff which meant lots to them.
I'd be thoroughly ruffled if I lost all my stuff, not for its cost to replace but for it's sentimental value.
Just coz peeps are rich doesn't mean we can't have empathy. I'm all for redistributing wealth but they're still human
There's celebrities doing a lot of good, too. Off the top of my head you got James Woods using his Twitter following to relay information about missing people and pets and other information. Seriously, go check it out. What he's done is nothing short of commendable, and making valuable use of his celebrity for good.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1062442456757755904?s=19
Joe Rogan let a friend raid his (no longer working) freezers full of hunted Elk meat and host a huge meal for first responders for several days instead of letting it all go bad.
Joe Rogan on Instagram
Yeah they're richer than you but they're still humans.
Grohl is a saint. We need more people like him in the world.
These people truly are amazing. Fire fighters have it rough and they work insane hours to keep the fires under control. When we had the wildfires here in NC, I was hauling water and helped prepare food and such. They don't get the recognition they deserve.
Reminds me of when Guy Fieri was feeding fire refugees last year. He's been doing it this year too.
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