Remember 'nude in space'?

I read an article on a Dutch site about the idea of 'lawless' city-states emerging. Of seasteading, billionaire owned towns on the sea where the future of humanity may lie. Or they're just vanity projects of people with too much money who want to be king.

Reading this article immediately made me think of the Nude in Space books [1] [2] [3], where the world is dying, the remaining people who can't get rid of their clothes are living in secluded, domed cities, and the nude ones live out in deserts.

The basic gist of the Dutch article is: the richest people on earth are preparing for the end of the world that they're summoning themselves by their lifestyle and actions.

If there is one way of life that is much better for this world, it's the nude way of life. Fewer clothes means fewer factories to make them, which in turn means a whole lot less pollution.

Being nude. Not being hot so quickly, so no need for power-gobbling airconditioning that produces more heat for the outside world, increasing the problem.

From the article (translation by me as I understand a few of the readers here aren't all fluent in Dutch):

The movement that wants to found those freedom cities, clearly envisions a future that's marked by shocks, scarcity and collapse. Their high tech domains are basically reinforced escape pods, designed for a select group of people who then can keep profiting of luxury and all kinds of human 'optimisation' - and given themselves and their children a head start in an increasingly barbarian future.

So it's not only creating the domed environments to keep the few safe, it's also pointing to 'Metropolis', an ancient film by Fritz Lang. (Trailer below, full film here.)

Of course, the nude life won't fix all problems, but they will stop and lessen some. Getting rid of billionaires is more important though. It seems that the 10% richest people in the world produce 2/3 of our climate problems...