Survival of the richest: Trump, climate and the logic of the doomsday bunker | Jonathan Watts
The climate crisis created the setting for Trump’s economy-first win and it’s the global south that will suffer most
Donald Trump’s election is a triumph for the politics of the doomsday bunker, which is bad news for the world’s environment.
This is the idea that in an age of climate disruption, nature extinction and ever wider social inequality, the best chance of survival for those who can afford it is to construct a personal shelter, where they can keep the desperate masses at bay. It is survival of the richest.
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