“He was in shock”: Violet’s discussion (Ben Affleck’s daughter and Jennifer Garner) with her mother on the climatic crisis

«I spent the January fires in Los Angeles to discuss with my mother in a hotel room. She was in shock, shocked by the extent of destruction in the neighborhood where she grew up me and my brothers. To upset me, however, was his surprise. As a member of Gen Z with climatic consciousness, my question was not if the Palisades would be burned, but when ». Thus began Violet Affleck, Ben Affleck’s daughter and Jennifer Garner, an essay published on Global Health Reviewthe health magazine of the Yale University, where it studies.

“However, Speaking with the adults in the hotel where we had refugees to escape smoke, I realized that my position was not the prevalent one: people spoke how long it would have wanted to reconstruct, of what would cost and how absurd the whole situation had been “, he writes. Violet therefore wanted to start a reflection on the climatic crisis – which, it ensures, is caused “by unsustainable consumption models concentrated among the richest citizens of the richest countries, which have already subjected most of this country and of the world to lethal temperatures, fire cycles and floods, raising of sea level and destruction of the harvests”.

The daughter of the famous couple of actors kept the distance from the surface label of classic Nepo Baby privileged, and always makes his voice heard. When he participated together with his parents in a meeting of the Supervisory Council of the county of Los Angeles to oppose the ban on the mask to La, he decided to talk about his health problems, and then renew the invitation to the debate.

«In 2019 I contracted a post-viral pathology. Now I’m fine, but I have found firsthand that medicine does not always know how to respond to the consequences of even minors. The Covid-19 pandemic made it even more evident, “he said before asking the Council” the availability of masks, air filtering systems and germicidal lamps with UV-C ultraviolet in government structures, including prisons and detention centers, in addition to the obligation of mask in the medical structures of the County “.