See, It’s Good You Can’t Afford a Beachfront House Because Then It’d Wash Away And Then Where Would…

See, It’s Good You Can’t Afford a Beachfront House Because Then It’d Wash Away And Then Where Would You Be

William D. Cohan and Vanessa Grigoriadis’ Vanity Fair piece on wealthy people’s fabulous beachfront homes being destroyed by CLIMATE CHANGE is full of delicious details. Oh and also sobering facts!

“’I do think the Broad Beach homes are in jeopardy, and I don’t want to be cold or callous about that,’ says Ford. ‘But we have to recognize that scientists … are talking about “managed retreat.” That means abandoning these houses and moving away, preferably way, way upland. Ford takes a breath. ‘We simply have to recognize that building homes on beaches is not sound policy,’ he says.

In other rich people news: 🙁 About that Saudi princess in Orange County and her slaves — how does that work exactly?

Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law at UCLA, said servants are treated so poorly for so long, ‘that they become completely docile, the Saudi employer cannot imagine them as anyone who has free will, so they comfortably view them as part of the baggage and bring them to the U.S. or Europe.’

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