Blows my mind that there are people who’d rather have billions of dollars and live in a bunker for the rest of their lives than have a comparatively modest existence in a flourishing environment with fresh air and sunshine, and that those people are being trusted to make decisions for the rest of us, but here we are.
Oh my god yes, this 100 percent. I study ecology and it frustrates me to no end just how little people are taught about just what environmental collapse is and what it really means. This planet is over 4 billion years old. In that time we have only had six extinction events. They are a HUGE fucking deal. It takes millions of years for life to recover from one of these events. Hell, we’re lucky there even is life left after the permian-triassic extinction event(it killed like 90% of species).
These rich fucks that think they can wait it out in some air conditioned bunker are idiots, airconditioning doesn’t even work once you get to a certain heat. If they think it’s going to be like some post apocalyptic survival fantasy they’re also out of luck. If they manage to wipe out insects, something that’s never happened before (but might because of pesticides, disease, a million other things stressing them) the cascade effect will crash the entire Earth’s biome.
On top of that, they’re are going to have over 8 billion diseased, hear stroked, starving, common people looking to beat their asses.
They will eat mostly carbohydrates, made from the tenacious superstrains of wheat that cling to life in soil devoid of nutrients and bare of moisture — hardy stalks engineered to be resilient and adaptive and to mature quickly and to propagate even faster.
Even this is too optimistic as far as what people will be eating.
In Douglas Rushkoff’s book “Survival of the Richest” he talks about the survival ideas of these rich morons he talked to at some event. They were discussing strategies to keep security guards loyal in a post apocalyptic scenario. Shit like shock collars, timed safes, anything besides treating them well. It’s a good book.
They’d rather keep driving us towards an apocalypse they wouldn’t survive than do something to avoid it.
If they were all forced down into a bunker or mineshaft for an indefinite amount of time then they might understand better. It would be a great learning experience for them.
Listen, we should fake a catastrophic collapse, send all the billionaires into their bunkers (if they do not have a bunker, the state will build them one). Once they’re siloed off, control all information coming into the bunkers to maintain the illusion of the apocalypse. Meanwhile, we clean up the world and dismantle any vestiges of capitalism, build utopia etc., at which point we make contact with the now feral remnants of the billionaire class, tell them everything we did, show them around a wonderful world free of want and pain, make them confront the fact that they were the ones holding humanity back.
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And THEN we put them up against the wall.
