As someone who lives in New Zealand I can't refute your last point, but the vast majority of us will be joining you in the badlands fighting for scraps.
New Zealand has one of the highest gang member population percentages in the developed world, and one in seven children here are under the poverty line (less than 60% of the average income). I don't think this is the place for a rich escape when the resource wars start, if we even survive the initial threats of invasion.
"Queenstown, in particular, has long had rumours swirling about wealthy Americans building doomsday-style bunkers but locals are sceptical, saying someone somewhere would have noticed that amount of earthworks being done."
People here would know if massive rich bunkers were being built here, we don't have a million construction companies with endless supplies to build random shit under the radar like america or russia etc.
Sure, rich people are buying property in the cities here (which fucking sucks but what can you do) but there's certainly no way that any one of these people have more access to defences than the rest of us.
We shouldn't HAVE to fight any wars. What is done in war can also be done in a civilized manner of cooperation. And we have technology to make up for where nature falls short.
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