If you were a billionaire (say 5b) with first pick of cities to take over as base for your city state for climate apocalypse, which one would you pick? Assume you have enough cunning strategic leverage and hacking of local governance going for you, ie don’t worry about execution.
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Rochester, NY. Very few natural disasters, plenty of fresh water and reasonable farmland, low likelihood of conflict.
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Yeah defensible fresh water is what I’d solve for first too 🙌
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Calgary. Maybe something with a port (how high are sea levels rising)
New Zealand- hard to get to
Iceland
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I feel like Paris has a lot going for it, if you can get a good handle on flooding
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With $5B you couldn't really "take over" Paris so much as buy a seat at the Parisian council of warlords
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Michigan, specifically the Upper Peninsula is repeatedly recommended by climate scientists. #home
fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres
popsci.com/best-places-to
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I see our mutual troll friend has turned you into a climate skeptic 😆
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