Climate excess functions as a marker of luxury status.

Evidence

And perhaps more of a problem: Jenner’s display of wealth is yet another reminder that waste is luxurious, that climate change is luxurious. Creating in one week a carbon footprint larger than most individuals will amass in several lifetimes is the height of luxury. “Life is essentially extravagant, drawing on its forces and its reserves unchecked,” says Bataille; “unchecked it annihilates what it has created. The multitude of living beings is passive in this process, yet in the end we resolutely desire that which imperils our life.” — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 375

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• SEED: Angles toward the essay ‘the Corpocene estate’ - the private jet as the car-infrastructure’s ultimate acme, waste as taxation-proof display.