From the Washington Post, May 9:
An artist made a warning system to notify you if the ultra-rich flee city centers en masse.
They
have endless amounts of money. Sophisticated bunkers. Private jets.
Might the oligarchs of the world know — or be warned — in advance of a
nuclear apocalypse?
So
goes the theory underpinning the newest project from Los Angeles artist
and coder Kyle McDonald, who has created what he calls an Apocalypse Early Warning System
by tracking private jets around the world. If a large number of jets
suddenly flee city centers, transporting their likely affluent
passengers to bunkers and isolated resorts, he figures it might be a
warning sign for the rest of us.
“I
want people to laugh. I hope they see it and they feel the sort of
humor of our situation — that we’re locked in a battle between the
ultra-wealthy and the working class,” McDonald said. “And remember,
there’s still things we can do. We’re not completely downtrodden and
lost of all hope.”....
For a graphic the paper uses a picture of private jets at Le Bourget but I was thinking of the overflow parking at the Swiss Air Force base down the road from Davos:
That was at
the Guardian in 2019, the year that David Attenbourough came to talk about Global Warming.
