Violet Affleck Reveals She and Her Mom, Jennifer Garner, Had Very Different Reactions to the Los Angeles Wildfires | News Channel 3-12
- Violet Affleck, 19-year-old daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, published an essay on May 18, 2025, about the January Los Angeles wildfires that forced her family to evacuate their Pacific Palisades home.
- The essay reflects Violet’s experience during the fire, including arguments with her mother over their differing reactions, set against a backdrop of widespread destruction and climate concerns affecting Southern California.
- In her essay published in the Yale Global Health Review, Violet Affleck addresses the environmental damage associated with affluent lifestyles and expresses her shock at the extensive destruction in her neighborhood caused by the recent wildfires.
- She cites a 2005 Nature Climate Change study showing the richest 10% cause two thirds of global warming since 1990, which drives climate extremes like heatwaves and droughts, and states, "climate change can be slowed" but not reversed.
- Violet’s essay and public comments promote slowing climate change and maintaining health protections like masks, revealing generational concern despite some public criticism labeling her views as entitled.
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Jennifer Garner’s daughter blasts the wealthy after L.A. fires
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck better not be traveling on carbon-emitting private jets, and the ex-spouses might want to re-think their need to live in massively-sized houses, because their oldest daughter, Violet Affleck, has fashioned herself into a climate justice warrior who has published an essay calling out the environmental harm caused by the privileged lifestyle in which she was raised. Related Articles Jim Morrison bust s…
Violet Affleck Had A Fight With Mom Jennifer Garner Over Climate Change
ShutterstockViolet Affleck opened up about a tense moment with her famous mother in a new essay. The Yale freshman recently published an academic argument about the global climate crisis, revealing in her intro that she had a disagreement with her mom, Jennifer Garner, earlier in 2025 about the cause of the Los Angeles wildfires.“I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room,” Affleck wrote as the opening line o…
Ben Affleck's Daughter Violet Tells the World In Excruciating Detail Why an Argument Exploded Between Her and 'Shell-Shocked' Mom Jennifer Garner
Violet Affleck has let slip a shocking family rift which sparked an argument with her mom Jennifer Garner over her belief climate change caused the Los Angeles fires.
Jennifer Garner’s Daughter Violet, 19, Reveals Why They Argued in a Hotel During 2025′s Los Angeles Fires | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Jennifer Garner’s Daughter Violet, 19, Reveals Why They Argued in a Hotel During 2025′s Los Angeles Fires Violet Affleck is a student at Yale University and a paper she wrote was made public in the college's Global Health Review paper. The 19-year-old college freshman…
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