Physics doesn’t care about net worth.

When the Gulf Stream shuts down, it doesn’t skip the estates in the Hamptons. When Category 6 hurricanes form, they don’t check bank balances before making landfall. When the breadbasket regions turn to dust, even private jets can’t airlift enough food for everyone.

The rich bought themselves time and distance. Higher ground. Better walls. Deeper bunkers. But they’re still trapped in the same atmosphere, drinking from the same water cycle, breathing the same air.

Their advantage was always systemic - markets, supply chains, global logistics. When those systems collapse, wealth becomes just numbers in servers that may not have power.

The billionaire’s vineyard burns the same as anyone else’s. Their coastal mansion floods just as fast. Their children need the same antibiotics that no longer exist.

Money bought them the best seats on a sinking ship. They’ll go down later than most, and in greater comfort. But the water still rises for everyone.

The climate doesn’t negotiate. It doesn’t take bribes. It just follows the laws of thermodynamics, indifferent to human hierarchies that seemed so permanent just a few decades before.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​