The Hideaway
December 20, 2024 at 12:19AMMichaela Cavanagh visits Germany to profile Ben Green, a man who transformed 13 acres into the Barracks, an intentional farm filled with vegetable plants and fruit and nut trees where the intention is to survive climate change-induced societal collapse.
I was getting on a train to the middle of nowhere to spend the week in a decommissioned military barracks for a “retreat” called the Collapse Laboratory. Privately—to friends, to myself—I referred to it as Climate Doomer Camp.
What I told them was this: in 2019, a Brit named Ben Green, who was let go from his plush software developer job in Switzerland, bought the biggest, cheapest, most isolated piece of land he could find in Germany and began to get serious about what he saw as the end of the world as we know it. For most of his adult life, he had worried about climate change. But as time wore on, he had begun to think that collapse was inevitable. He had built the Barracks—part back-to-the-land farm, part doomsday bunker—to live out the climate change–driven breakdown of society. He was the sole occupant and master of his thirteen acres, with only a few pigs he had rescued to keep him company.
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