If the climate crisis was truly real, wouldn’t guns be something people would need as the world goes Mad Max? I know I’d want them
One afternoon in February, hoping to survive the apocalypse or at least avoid finding myself among its earliest victims, I logged on to an online course entitled Ruggedize Your Life: The Basics.
Some of my classmates had activated their cameras. I scrolled through the little windows, noting the alarmed faces, downcast in cold laptop light. There were dozens of us on the call, including a geophysicist, an actor, a retired financial adviser and a civil engineer. We all looked worried, and rightly so. The issue formerly known as climate change was now a polycrisis called climate collapse. H1N1 was busily jumping from birds to cows to people. And with each passing day, as Donald Trump went about gleefully dismantling state capacity, the promise of a competent government response to the next hurricane, wildfire, flood, pandemic, drought, mudslide, heatwave, financial meltdown, hailstorm or other calamity receded further from view. (snip)
For many years, Steffen worked as an environmental reporter. He wrote several acclaimed books that explored technological solutions to the climate crisis, served as “futurist in residence” at the design firm IDEO, and taped a couple Ted Talks, gradually gaining a reputation as one of the foremost thinkers on the sustainability circuit. Meanwhile, he watched in horror as the window for action narrowed and governments and institutions dithered. “I still find it staggering and heart-rending that we blew this so badly,” he said in an interview.
It’s not to believe in doom when you continuously listen to messages of doom, right? If you’re predisposed to believe in coming climate doom. I mean, I read a lot of zombie books (most movies and TV shows are terrible), but, I’m not predisposed to believing it will actually happen, even with a really good explanation, such as 28 Days Later (BTW, looking forward to 28 years later, but, how can they have survived? They weren’t actually dead, and 28 Weeks Later shows those infected with Rage to have died from starvation, and explains it).
Let’s jump through a few paragraphs of prepper history
Not all of them are conservatives. Liberals make up about 15% of the prepping scene, according to one estimate, and their numbers appear to be growing.
What are they doing?
One private Facebook group dedicated to preparedness for liberals has more than tripled in size since the election. Here, one finds no tradwife panegyrics, gun porn or “TEOTWAWKI” (the End of the World as We Know It) merch. Instead, participants offer advice on maintaining one’s online anonymity under a potential fascist regime, advocate the stockpiling of anxiety meds and reading material (ahead of expected bans), and debate the moral dilemma of buying a first aid kit from a company that caters to law enforcement. Liberal preparedness podcasters and newsletter writers I spoke to also reported a notable uptick in subscribers since Trump’s election.
Too much to unpack in that paragraph. You do it in your mind. The article keeps going and going. These people will be lost if disaster actually comes.
Read: Lefty Preppers Don’t Need Guns For The Coming Climate Collapse »
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