The New Statesman pulled no punches on 19 March 2019. It said “A small handful of super rich companies are responsible for the overwhelming majority of fossil fuel emissions. Their effects are visited worst upon the poor”. Richard Gray wrote a thought piece for the BBC the following day. He asked “What happens when we run out of food?” He answered with the story of what happened when the Bosnian Serb Army surrounded Sarajevo in 1992.
Poor and Super Rich People Have Different Strengths
Richard Gray spoke to Rešad Trbonja about his experiences in Sarajevo. Rešad told him how starving people shared what they grew in patches of earth, despite the sniper bullets whistling around them. He made no mention of the wealthy ones though, because presumably they had money to get out.
Eleanor Penny’s article in New Statesman opens with the story of how a super rich media personality “hired a squad of private firefighters to protect her $50m estate in Calabasas”. This is a sordid echo of how Blackwater security guards “defended the houses of the hyper rich against feared hordes of looters. While their occupants were quietly helicoptered to safety after Katrina.”
How the Super Rich are Preparing their Arks to Escape
Some commercial plans to create a new micro nation to save humanity come across as playgrounds for the super rich. How on poor, degraded earth would the hurricane-devastated poor in Mozambique possibly pay the ticket?
These examples are not anomalies, Eleanor Penny insists. “Private insurance companies like AIG and Chubb have boasted about their increased provisions. Provisions against the rapidly increasing numbers of natural disasters like wildfires.
“As the waters rise, the super rich are readying their arks – quietly preparing themselves for climate chaos. If history teaches us anything, it’s that elites build their castles high above the filth,” unquote. Are these the right people for the new gene pool?
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