WELLINGTON: The elevation of an unpredictable billionaire to the helm of nuclear-armed America has given fresh impetus to the idea of remote New Zealand as a bulwark for civilisation in the event of a global catastrophe.
The idea has pedigree -- British science fiction writer John Wyndham’s 1955 novel “The Chrysalids” describes a post-apocalyptic landscape where Zealand (or Sealand) is the only place that has not sunk into barbarity.
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