By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026Since this breaking point arrives as a result of oligarchy, in which nearly all the world's wealth has been hoarded by a tiny number of people, those aristocrats are disproportionately impoverished by the conflagration. 1454
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026If 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 1% of the people, a war or disaster that wipes out most capital will mostly destroy the wealth of the 1%. The poor suffer terribly, but they start with nothing - and end with nothing. 1463
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026We are *clearly* steaming into one of these situations. The wealthy squandered two generations preventing the world from tacking the climate emergency, and now the inevitable has arrived. California is on track to see a *12"* sea-level rise in the next *month*: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comCalifornia rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level riseWave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska 15611
