A secure future – can only the uber-rich apply?

December 1, 2025

Will we see pangs of regret from the billionaires of fossil fuels and AI, sheltering in their luxurious secure bunkers, when they think of all the places in the outside world that they’d love to visit – or revisit – which are now unreachable because of climatic deterioration, widespread famine, anarchy, or AI’s mastery of the world?

Bunkerworld encapsulates the grotesque reality today where the super-wealthy grow ever richer through exacerbating mega-threats like global warming and AI, in the face of existential risks that are well-known and documented, and then buy accommodation in ultra-safe, ultra-secure bunkers to shelter themselves and their families from the inevitable consequences that those risks presented.

Perhaps we are seeing the beginning of hope in the 88 breakaway countries that have formed the Phase-out Fossil Fuels Group in an effort to escape the suffocating grip which petrostates exert over the COPs through its absurd requirement for unanimity in decision-making.

While billionaires are securing their well-feathered nests, will there be sufficient courage among governments of the world to stare down the bunker-class, and deliver an environment which might prove, even at this late stage of deterioration, sufficiently healthy for life on earth to survive?