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  • noun A belief, expressed by survivalists, in being prepared to survive disasters and cataclysms including the collapse of civilization.

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Examples

  • While it may look like these Wall Streeters are betting on such a collapse, their embrace of survivalism is an outgrowth of their professional habits of mind: Having observed the economy’s shaky high-wire act from their ringside seats, they are trying to manage their risk and “hedge” against a potential fall.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I'm not talking about "survivalism", I'm talking about people having gardens, chickens, a summer pig, etc.

    Walter Jeffries' Comments on Farm Policy 2007

  • Armed with that thought as the economic news gets bleaker by the day, a new kind of survivalism is gaining ground in our country, making the Y2K scare of a decade ago seem like a child's game.

    News from www.rep-am.com 2009

  • Armed with that thought as the economic news gets bleaker by the day, a new kind of survivalism is gaining ground in our country, making the Y2K scare of a decade ago seem like a child's game.

    News from www.rep-am.com 2009

  • To the people in these areas, "survivalism" is simply a newer word describing the self-sufficiency practiced in these areas for generations.

    Energy Bulletin - Jerry Erwin 2008

  • Yet the potential for confrontation exists when survivalism mixes with apocalyptic fears or millennial expectation.

    Apollo's Daughter :: May 19th, 2009 apollosdtr 2009

  • Yet the potential for confrontation exists when survivalism mixes with apocalyptic fears or millennial expectation.

    Apollo's Daughter :: Utopia and Distopia apollosdtr 2009

  • My crazy-ass mother had brought me up practically isolated from a normal environment, awash in her extremist religion that was a combination of fundamentalist Christianity and survivalism, seasoned with an odd touch of anti-Semitism.

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

  • Urban homesteading, as it is called, is a sort of survivalism for hipsters.

    Putting the Park in Park Avenue Eric Felten 2011

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    Apollo's Daughter :: Utopia and Distopia apollosdtr 2009

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