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I'm starting to think that the most effective form of protest might be to make it clear to the billionaires that we know about their bunkers and they won't be safe in them following a climate cataclysm.

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I wonder how the billionaires are going to prevent their security staff from dispatching them and living in the bunkers themselves.

It’s a pretty tough incentive alignment issue. You need the families of the guards to live in the bunker… but then , why wouldn’t one of them just take over?

Yet, when Al Gore created _An Inconvenient Truth_ back in 2006 everybody was ready to mock his private jet.

I think billionaires are a distraction. MAGA had no problem talking about "coastal liberals" with their billionaire connections and how they're going to "drain the swamp," and look where it led us.

Distraction from what?

Not one of OPs, but it's become common knowledge these days that a real class war has been ongoing for decades, with the final blow likely delivered by Thatcher and Reagan.

The social contract, between the effective ruling and representative classes and the populations they are supposed to serve, seems to have been completely broken.

So you could say everything not pivoting to this point is basically a distraction.

Distraction from the fact that there's not going to be a perfect solution that solves the climate without inconveniencing us "common folks."

By advocating for a perfect solution that sticks it to the bad guys, one can put off talking about concrete, actionable plans. Very convenient.

Those bunkers are already defended. Think of them less as a schizo bug-out bunker and more of the castles of the new feudalism.

Their purpose is solely to protect the land/the lord from people with ideas such as yours following the collapse of the empire.

Even castles have been stormed.

By large armies of trained soldiers who invariably suffered disproportionate casualties. Fortifications are very effective for this specific application.

Dozers would be very easy to armor up and teleoperate. Send 10 just for good measure.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Salt the land and wait for the rations to run out.

The billionaire with a doomsday bunker probably has enough rations to outlast you. It's best not to wait until the doomsday bunker stage to do something about the situation.

That's true. However, the smarter(esque) billionaires built their doomsday prepper bunkers in NZ, AU, Hawaii, and probably elsewhere secret and far away from most civilization they want to avoid.

Breathing is nice.

best bring out the bunker busters then

You have a lot of those in the back of the garage, do you?

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