I think it might be a good idea to fake a global apocalypse to send all the billionaires scrambling to their bunkers and then just go ahead block the doors with a big rock.
Did similar sentiment exist for robber barons of 19th century or is this a more recent phenomenon?
I think these guys just watched how they got spanked on the beach at the Bay of Pigs and ever since then imagined what if it was them doing the spanking.
You could probably make some connections to the construction of the gilded age mansions and "cottages"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gilded_Age_mansions
Aren't most of those islands literally at sea level? So that any rise in sea levels due to global warming will just make the whole island disappear?
a lot of them are volcanic so you can keep building higher up the hillside as the water rises. the sea's not gonna rise 50m, and you can easily get that much height on the volcanic ones.
until the island explodes of course
Oh okay. I think I was thinking of the Maldives or similar types of completely flat islands. As far as I know, global warming isn't making a catastrophic volcanic eruption more or less likely on those islands, so I guess their plans are slightly smarter than I first credited.
