The way the 1% run the economy and deploy political power leads me to conclude that they are all extreme climate believers who’ve concluded the apocalypse is nigh, cannot be averted, and it’s best to retreat to Helm’s Deep in New Zealand with 4 generations worth of durable assets
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You know this would actually somehow be more comforting to me than what I suspect is actually the reality.
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Heh no, that’s just the 3-4 outliers and they are rather unique in their motives. The average 0.1% er probably has a luxury bunker with landing strip in Wyoming. Panic rooms are selling briskly in the Hamptons too. The NZ ref was mainly a Peter Thiel reference.
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sadly..? yes. I've reached a similar conclusion.
retreats to higher elevation enclaves.
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Some of them may be clueless, and some of them may not be.
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This is what Steve Bannon, Robert Mercer, and Vladimir Putin already know:
web.stanford.edu/~mburke/climate (Along with Merkel and every other leader in the EU.)
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