01 · The Library — Systems & Power
Billionaires Keep Buying Property at the End of the World (And It's Not for the Views)
The ones who call it a hoax are also the first in line to buy the exits
The best-defended beach in the Mediterranean is about to get an infinity pool. Sazan is five and a half square kilometers of pine, cliffs, and Cold War concrete off the Albanian coast, an island that spent the twentieth century preparing for the end of the world. Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship tunneled it against nuclear attack, stocked it for chemical war, and garrisoned it against invasions that never came. For decades the only way to see it was through binoculars.
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