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Survivalism

Survivalism is a social movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists, doomsday preppers or preppers) who proactively prepare for emergencies, such as natural disasters, and other disasters causing disruption to social order (that is, civil disorder) caused by political or economic crises. Preparations may anticipate short-term scenarios or…

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Survivalism

Nodes208
Edges207
Triples133
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009615
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related to 1970s · 25
Survivalism → America, April, Chinese Fujian Tulou, Colonel Jeff Cooper, Coming Bad Years, Cooper, Depending, European, Famine, Firearms, How, Howard Ruff, In, Issue, Letter, Mexican, Most, Notes, Prosper During, Ruff
related to 2010s · 15
Survivalism → After, Both, Earlier, He, King County, Los Angeles Times, Mary McNamara, National Geographic Channel's Doomsday, Peter Keller, Preppers, Rattlesnake Ridge, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Television, The Christian Science Monitor, Washington
related to 2000s · 14
Survivalism → Another, Bali, Great Recession, Hurricane Katrina, In, Indian Ocean, Internet, London, Madrid, Many, Online, September, The, This
related to In popular culture · 12
Survivalism → Both, Distant Thunder, Jerry Reed, John Lithgow, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire, Robin Williams, The, The Survivors, Tremors, Vietnam War, Walter Matthau
related to 2020s · 11
Survivalism → COVID-19, During, Gaza, In, International Concern, Public Health Emergency, Russian, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ukraine, United States, World Health Organization
related to Media portrayal · 7
Survivalism → Cold War, Despite, Doomsday Preppers, National Geographic, Neil Genzlinger, Nevertheless, The New York Times
related to Outline of scenarios and outlooks · 6
Survivalism → Survivalists, The, These, They, Western, While
related to Perceived extremism · 6
Survivalism → In, Kurt Saxon, Some, The, Thus, United States
see also · 2
Survivalism → List, Society
is a · 1
Survivalism → social movement of individuals or groups

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survival survivalist survivalists food preparations retreats nuclear book group often emergency preparedness collapse economic supplies also war years many movement

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Survivalismis asocial movement of individuals or groups0.90text
The Innovatorinstance ofArticles on the subject appeared in small-distribution libertarian publications0.80text
Atlantis Quarterlyinstance ofArticles on the subject appeared in small-distribution libertarian publications0.80text
Jeff Cooperinstance ofThe newsletter included columns from Tappan himself and notable survivalists0.80text
Al J Venterinstance ofThe newsletter included columns from Tappan himself and notable survivalists0.80text
Bruce Dinstance ofThe newsletter included columns from Tappan himself and notable survivalists0.80text
Gary Northinstance ofsome writers0.80text
Ed Yourdoninstance ofsome writers0.80text
James Howard Kunstlerinstance ofsome writers0.80text
and investments' advisor Ed Yardeni anticipated widespread power outagesinstance ofsome writers0.80text
foodinstance ofsome writers0.80text
gasoline shortagesinstance ofsome writers0.80text

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