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Jennifer Garner is reportedly worth around $80 million. Dad Ben Affleck is worth about $150 million. It costs about $90K a year to go to Yale, and I bet their daughter isn’t paying a cent

Jennifer Garner’s daughter blasts the wealthy after L.A. fires
In a college essay, the 19-year-old daughter of Garner and Ben Affleck despaired of the ignorance about climate change.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck better not be traveling on carbon-emitting private jets, and the ex-spouses might want to re-think their need to live in massively-sized houses, because their oldest daughter, Violet Affleck, has fashioned herself into a climate justice warrior who has published an essay calling out the environmental harm caused by the privileged lifestyle in which she was raised.

Does Violet fly home to California on a jet, or take Amtrak cross country?

The 19-year-old Yale University student writes about the devastating Los Angeles fires in January, which forced her mother and two younger siblings to evacuate from their Pacific Palisades home. The essay, published in an undergraduate campus publication, opens with Violet Affleck describing how she was holed up in a hotel, arguing with her mother about the causes and “the scale of the destruction.”

“She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings,” Violet Affleck writes in The Yale Global Health Review. “I was surprised at her surprise: As a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when.”

I sorta remember being 19 and think I knew everything. Of course, my folks were middle class, so, I didn’t quite have the luxury of worrying about complete bullshit.

“As I chatted with adults in the hotel where we’d gone to escape the smoke, though, I found my position to be an uncommon one: people spoke of how long rebuilding would take, how much it would cost, and how tragically odd the whole situation had been,” she wrote. She said they blamed the crisis on “bad luck,” while her younger brother, Samuel, couldn’t understand what global warming had to do with the hurricane-force winds and dry topography that fueled the flames after the Palisades Fire broke out in the Santa Monica Mountains on Jan. 7.

Apparently, Violet doesn’t understand the topography, geography, and historical climate of the area, to which Mankind added highly flammable buildings, poorly maintained powerlines, and an inability to clear dry brush.

Yes, this daughter of rich and famous movie stars is turning the mirror on her own privileged upbringing. It has been established that wealthy people have a higher carbon footprint than everyone else. The world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two thirds of observed global warming since 1990, and for the resulting increases in climate extremes such as heatwaves and droughts, according to a 2005 study in Nature Climate Change.

It’s easy for her to say/write, but, is she willing to give up her own privileged lifestyle? We all know the answer is “no”.

As for addressing climate change, Violet Affect explains that it can’t be reversed but that it can be slowed and that people should do what they can to nudge environmental trends in that direction. “Adopting a pacing strategy towards the climate crisis then means not only celebrating every potential catastrophe we avoid but also embracing the ways in which each one could have been worse,” she said. She also said that, as “COVID-conscious” people and disabled people “celebrate each chain of transmission broken,” climate scientists can recognize that “each degree of warming we avoid will be a victory.” she also said.

Well, she has the whole Victimhood down. But, she won’t practice what she preaches. That’s for the little people. This is completely symptomatic of the rich who have nothing bad in their lives.