Grimes insists Elon Musk is ‘fairly vocal about local weather change’
Grimes is grappling with the devastation brought on by Los Angeles’ wildfires, which have displaced practically 200,000 Californians, together with herself.
On Thursday, January 9, the 36-year-old musician — born Claire Boucher — took to X (beforehand Twitter) to explain the scene as “Biblical,” sharing her fears about humanity’s readiness to handle the rising local weather disaster.
“We might be outta time w regards to twiddling our thumbs whilst every level of our culture, environment, government, institutions, mental health, etc have obviously crumbled,” she wrote.
The wildfires, which started Tuesday (January 7) in Pacific Palisades, have quickly unfold throughout L.A. County, destroying an estimated 10,000 houses and constructions and leaving at the very least 10 individuals lifeless as of Thursday, per CNN.
Grimes, who evacuated earlier this week, described her harrowing expertise on social media: “Just had to evacuate, tried to go to a friend’s place / it got an evacuation warning on the way there — now aimlessly driving out of the city.”
In her tweets, Grimes additionally addressed a commenter who criticised her ex-partner Elon Musk, defending the tech mogul’s contributions to combating local weather change via electrical car innovation.
“He’s pretty vocal about climate change and is primarily known for, in part, revolutionising electric vehicles… The biggest challenge right now is not falling into creating and consuming dopamine rage bait on social media,” she wrote, urging deal with “truth-based discourse.”
Grimes and Musk, who share three youngsters, ended their relationship in 2022 however stay linked via their household.