Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers — With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety, at least for those who can afford …::With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety - at least for those who can afford them
Excellent news for the rich: they can fuck up the environment as much as they want and sit comfortably in their apocalypse bunkers. At least until the global ecosystems collapse to an extent that not even they can hide from it I guess.
Thousands or more of Americans already have similar tornado shelters and that’s all good. Has been the status quo since the days when electricity was new.
There’s nothing you can do to stop tornados, so a bunker is the best place to be in one.
These are similar to tornado shelters in the US. Several of my neighbors have them.
They even make some that are basically a porch and steps with a hatch to open and climb in.
They are also common with cheap housing like trailer houses.
In a true apocalyptic setting, this would just be collecting resources for the strong and powerful. I don’t think the rich would stay in power for very long.
The guards and servants will turn if not before groups from the surrounding areas raid the place.
That said, if I had the money and land it’s a provocative idea in these fucked times. The thing is the rich have been working on this shit for a long time now. They know society is likely to collapse again.
Most soldiers don’t turn on dictators. At least not as much as we’d like them to.
No real mention of the main enemy, oxygen… A brush fire can deplete the local oxygen levels even if your nice and cool underground.
These are basically small concrete boxes sunk into the ground. They’re only meant to stick out a bushfire for a few hours.
You could probably just keep a few bottles of oxygen or a carbon dioxide scrubber stashed in there, just in case. If you can spend $10,000 on one of these bunkers, spending a few hundred more isn’t going to make a difference.
Anything longer than a few hours would get dicey anyway without room to move around, without room to stash water or food, without a toilet or beds.
They could put in a bunch of high-O2 producing plants like mother-in-law’s tongue and be relatively okay-ish.
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Just move to a region that doesn’t light on fire…
