What do they know? World's 億万長者s are building （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s and 組み立てる／集結するing 要塞s outside their mansions

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'Doomsday prepping' used to be seen as a hobby relegated to the paranoid fringe?― but ordinary Americans spent a staggering $11 billion on 生き残り items, just last year, from April 2022 to April 2023.

About a third of US 国民s 収容する／認める to prepping, 調査するs show, but few have the 資源s today's 億万長者 （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕-建設業者s have to 充てる to their own 避難所s.

The world's wealthiest have ますます spent hundreds of millions on 安全な・保証するing 地下組織の 構内／化合物s, 私的な islands and (for the 単に rich) '生き残り condos.'

Late last year it 現れるd?示す Zuckerberg?was building a $100 million hidden 要塞 buried beneath his Hawaiian island ranch, 完全にする with its own energy and food 供給（する）s and 爆破-抵抗力のある doors.

億万長者 wellness entrepreneur Frank VanderSloot ― Idaho's richest man ― recently bought a 2,000-acre ranch south of Zuck's 構内／化合物 for a 冷静な／正味の $51 million.

And OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman once let slip that he and PayPal co-創立者 Peter Thiel have an '協定' in 事例／患者 the world is ending: If things 攻撃する，衝突する the fan, Altman said in 2016, the pair would lay low at one of Thiel's 所有物／資産／財産s in New Zealand.

Zuckerberg's lavish 広い地所 is 極端に 私的な - in 2016 he began building a six-foot tall 石／投石する 塀で囲む which runs along the 所有物／資産／財産 next to a road in the 半分-田舎の community of Kilauea

The 億万長者 Facebook 創立者, 39, bought 110 acres of a former sugar 農園 on the island 支援する in 2021 - 追加するing to the couples 1,300 acre $100million 高級な 広い地所

Based on an 見積（る） by Wired, Zuck's $270 million 事業／計画（する） will be one of the largest personal constructions of all time. Zuckerberg is pictured (left) with his wife of 11 years Priscilla Chan.?Zuckerberg bought his 1,400-acre Koolau Ranch on the island of Kauai in 2014

But where, 正確に／まさに, are they going to stay? In 2022, a 地元の community 会議 on New Zealand's South Island 封鎖するd Thiel's 計画（する）s to carve his majestic 防備を堅める／強化するd lair into the landscape beside 歴史的に 保護するd Lake Wanaka.?

独立した・無所属 commissioners who visited th e 提案するd 場所／位置 on に代わって of the 会議 報告（する）／憶測d 支援する that Thiel's （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕 design would '大幅に detract from the 質 and naturalness of the 優れた natural landscape.'

'All members were shocked at the frequency at which 相当な parts of the 提案 would be in plain and direct 見解（をとる）,' they wrote of Thiel's 提案, which would have been nestled の近くに to New Zealand's no いっそう少なく historic 開始する Alpha.

New Zealand's scenic beauty and island remoteness has made it a popular choice for Silicon Valley エリートs 捜し出すing a natural 要塞 for the apocalypse?― a growing 恐れる given 増大するing 地域の wars and the rising heat of 気候 change.

Zuckerberg and his lucky guests won't have to worry about leaving the 構内／化合物 for any 推論する／理由 - the self-十分な 広い地所 has food and water sources 同様に as every amenity you can think of

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A Finder 調査する 設立する Americans spent a 集団の／共同の $11 billion last year on prepping 供給（する）s like food, water, 洗面所 paper, 医療の 供給（する）s and 生き残り 道具s. What's more: Out of the third of Americans who are prepping for doomsday, 40 パーセント are Gen Z.

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Last year, the nonprofit 連合 of physicists and other 研究員s behind 公式発表 of the 原子の Scientists 始める，決める their Doomsday Clock 90 seconds to midnight: the closest humanity has been to doom in the clock's 76 year history.

'Russia's war on ウクライナ共和国 has raised 深遠な questions about how 明言する／公表するs interact, eroding norms of international 行為／行う,' their 2023 Doomsday Clock 声明 explained.

'And worst of all, Russia's thinly 隠すd 脅しs to use 核の 武器s remind the world that escalation of the 衝突―by 事故, 意向, or miscalculation―is a terrible 危険.'

Those 関心s have only grown as イスラエル's 爆破 （選挙などの）運動をするs over Gaza, in 明言する／公表するd 返答 to Hamas, has 脅すd 点火（する） a wider war in the Middle East.

ぐずぐず残る 関心s of another pandemic, a la Covid-19, have done nothing to 静める 恐れる of societal 崩壊（する）.?

In fact, it's Gen-Z adults, those born after 1997, who have proven the most likely to be 準備するing for a 災害: a whooping 40 パーセント （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have spent money on doomsday 供給（する）s in 2022, によれば a?Finder 調査する.

The 調査する of 2,179 US adults had a two パーセント 利ざや of error. Finder, who has been collecting prepping data since 2017, asked people if they had spent money 準備するing for 緊急s over the last twelve months.

As one 維持できる prepping influencer, content creator Brek ke Wagoner, put it, '基本的に our 天候 is going to be more 激しい because of 全世界の 気候 change, if for no other 推論する／理由 you should have an 緊急 計画（する） to を取り引きする these inclement 災害s, because they're coming whether we want them or not.'?

This past September, for example, New York City was 攻撃する，衝突する with flooding that reached the?wettest day ever 記録，記録的な／記録するd in the city. It cancelled?flights, shut 負かす／撃墜する the subway and 潜水するd cars around the city.

And last August's wildfires in Hawaii were the deadliest in US history?with?96 deaths and thousands 追い出すd.

The world's richest people surely have as much data on ますます world 災害s as Gen Z, and likely a lot more.

The prospect of a 核の strike on Britain has never seemed more real, with Vladimir Putin and his henchmen 脅すing to obliterate London and other Western 資本／首都s in the 最新の escalation of the ウクライナ共和国 war. Pictured: The 生き残り Condo in Kansas

One of Thiel's PayPal co-創立者s, Reid Hoffman, told The New Yorker that の中で the world's wealthiest New Zealand is 静かに understood to be the place to hunker 負かす／撃墜する in the event of calamity.

'説 you're ''buying a house in New Zealand'' is 肉親，親類d of a ''wink, wink, say no more,''' Hoffman said.

棒 Drury, the 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of the Thiel-支援するd New Zealand accounting ソフトウェア company Xero, the?said American 億万長者s '扱う／治療する New Zealand as a bit of a bolt-穴を開ける'.

Like Thiel, 億万長者 Google co-創立者 Larry Page 持つ／拘留するs residency in New Zealand after 存在 認めるd it last year. Entrepreneur Mihai Dinulescu famously left behind a cryptocurrency startup at the 突発／発生 of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and fled to New Zealand with his wife.

There are 報道によれば already （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s in Hamilton, Hanmer Springs and Wanaka.

But there are more 国内の 選択s too: The village overlooking Biscayne Bay south of Miami is?famously?known as , a mix of celebrities and 商売／仕事 moguls.?

アマゾン 億万長者 Jeff Bezos?and his fianc?e, Lauren Sanchez,?will soon be hunkered 負かす／撃墜する in this af fluent 飛び領土, where retired NFL 星／主役にする?Tom Brady, former First Daughter Ivanka Trump, and singer Julio Iglesias will be their neighbors.?

The world's third richest man bought not one but two 隣接地の 所有物／資産／財産s on Indian Creek for a total of nearly $150 million this year.

A （判決などを）下すing of the 地下組織の home Peter Thiel tried to build in remote New Zealand

A rending of the unique hidden home Peter Thiel was 否定するd 許可 to build by 政府s in New Zealand

計画（する）s that PayPal 創立者 Peter Thiel submitted with his 提案 to a 部分的に／不公平に buried home in New Zealand

For the few エリート 指名するs known to have begun 準備するing for the end of times, there are 得点する／非難する／２０s who remain - likely 故意に - nameless.?

科学（工学）技術 writer Douglas Rushkoff recently?述べるd a secret 会合 in the middle of an American 砂漠 in which five '最高の-豊富な guys' 取調べ／厳しく尋問するd him on how they could better 準備する their doomsday （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s with questions like 'How do I 持続する 当局 over my 安全 軍隊 after the event?'

A host of companies have 現れるd ready to 会合，会う that 需要・要求する, 含むing Rising S, which says it has built 14 （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s in New Zealand; the 会社／堅い 生き残り Condo, which 変えるs abandoned US ミサイル silos into survivalist 地下組織の high-rises; and the Czech based Oppidum, which 申し込む／申し出s 'ultra-高級な' （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s for 億万長者s anywhere in the world.

Rising S Co. has 任命する／導入するd about 10 （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s in New Zealand over the past few years?(pictured: 労働者s 任命する／導入するing a （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕 地下組織の)

Reid Hoffman, the co-創立者 of LinkedIn, has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that at least half of his fellow Silicon Valley 億万長者s have 類似して acquired some form of ‘apocalypse 保険’ in the 形態／調整 of such hideaways, either in the U.S. or abroad. Pictured: A swimming pool in the 生き残り condo

Doomsday （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s (pictured) have been shipped from the US across New Zealand, there's （船に）燃料を積み込む／（軍）地下えんぺい壕s in Hamilton, Hanmer Springs and Wanaka

More and more uber-豊富な people have been buying islands ― or at least big chunks of them ― in 最近の years.?

Richard Branson and Johnny Depp 最高の，を越す listicles about 個人として owned islands, along with 豊富な families like the DuPonts and Disneys.

Some are even 支払う／賃金ing 最高の，を越す dollar to become 国民s in different countries. いわゆる 'golden ビザs' 効果的に 許す 豊富な people to 伸び（る） 住居 ― and even 市民権 ― in foreign countries in 交流 for 冷淡な, hard cash.?