Trump’s second Presidency is life imitating art — a 1989 fictional prophesy of 2025, in which an ultra-rich cabal causes irrevocable environmental damage then flees the Earth in rocket ships, writes Dr Norm Sanders.
IN 1989, English comedian Ben Elton (The Young Ones, Blackadder) published a book called Stark – definitely not a comedy – it was a prophetic vision of the situation in 2025.
Ben Elton’s fictional world is ruled by an ultra-rich cabal known as the Stark Conspiracy. Sound familiar?
The Stark Conspiracy has long been aware that its profit-seeking activities have caused irrevocable environmental damage. They realise that total environmental collapse is imminent.
Their solution is to build rockets called Star Arks to take them to the moon which they have purchased from the U.S.
The book begins with the words:
The earth was dying. To be more specific, the earth was being killed. Done to death by its fond owners. Killed by the …