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The rapidly collapsing biosphere presents a number of rapidly expanding business opportunities

Let's squeeze out the last quick bucks before the ship sinks!

It’s a great time to start a moving company! People will increasingly start migrating away from the equator for more livable temperatures.

Pro tip: constitute as NGO, the tax structure is very convenient and most of the capital will come from traffickers anyway, so you cannot exactly declare it.

Just make sure money is properly laundered before accepting it as donation. Art auction are great to shift large capital quickly.

Let me write all this down, great tips!

Add "blockchain-for-X" and you got yourself a new customer.

Weapons. People will kill to keep their patch of desert from others.

Automated border defenses, both lethal and nonlethal. Weapons that are technically not lethal, but make the victim wish they were (bonus points if the weapon doesn't leave any external marks on the victim, to prevent media backlash). Weapons and procedures for destroying damns with minimal damage to your own country that lies downstream. Hypertargeted cloudseeding, to make sure it rains on your fields instead of your neighbors'.

So many new opportunities for psychopaths to earn lots and lots of money.

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