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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 13:58:01 +0100
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@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ the problem. Juli Gittinger has shown that fatalistic climate narratives
have driven some people in the US to join the 'prepper' movement, accumulating
stockpiles of essential goods, building emergency shelters, learning 'survival
skills,' and collecting weapons to defend your family's patch from desperate
-outsiders. [@american-apocalyptic, see esp. chp. 3, 4] 'Prepper' culture (which
+outsiders in the event of social meltdown. [@american-apocalyptic,
+see esp. chp. 3, 4] 'Prepper' culture (which
owes its existence to Cold War fears of all-out nuclear war
[@american-apocalyptic, pp. 48-56] and is sometimes also pursued as a result of
certain pre-millenialist beliefs [@unveiling-empire, p. 5]) might be a minority