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 deal with the rising local weather disaster.
“We is likely to be outta time w regards to twiddling our thumbs while each stage of our tradition, atmosphere, authorities, establishments, psychological well being, and so on have clearly 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 properties and buildings and leaving no less than 10 individuals lifeless as of Thursday, per CNN.
Grimes, who evacuated earlier this week, described her harrowing expertise on social media: “Just needed to evacuate, tried to go to a good friend’s place / it acquired an evacuation warning on the way in which there — now aimlessly driving out of town.”
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 by way of electrical car innovation.
“He’s fairly vocal about local weather change and is primarily recognized for, partly, revolutionising electrical autos… The largest problem proper now is just 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 kids, ended their relationship in 2022 however stay related by way of their household.
