Survivalism

Survivalism is concerned with surviving risk. Often survivalists are concerned with risks from catastrophes, and practice survival skills as a sport, lifestyle, profession or hobby. It is thus concerned with factors like biorisk and biosecurity to guard against that risk. Survivalism not merely an idea but also a transnational movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who actively prepare for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales from local to international. Survivalists can either actively believe in impending doom (those are doomers), or merely be wanting to minimize risk (risk minimizers). Since survival skills are an important part of some military professions, there is significant overlap in the demographics, ideas, practices, and types of gear between military and non-military survival practitioners. States practice survivalism through emergency services, which train in survival skills. Private firms also employ survivalists or train in survival skills to some degree such as when building in relatively hostile conditions. The Cold War era civil defense programs promoted public atomic bomb shelters, personal fallout shelters, and training for children, such as the Duck and Cover films.  
Technosurvivalism is concerned with using technology to survive, or to survive against technology. Biosurvivalism is concerned with surviving biorisk (see bioapocalypse). 
Bleeding-edge survivalism is the latest most significant progress in survivalism. 
== Politics and survivalism ==
Conservative survivalism (can include technoconservative survivalism), converse to Technoprogressive survivalism; Leftist survivalism can be either relatively technoconservative or technoprogressive; technophobic survivalism
Transhumanist survivalism is the syncretics of transhumanist culture and survivalist culture.
Green technoprogressivism overlaps somewhat with survivalism.
== Survivalism and religion ==
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) long directed its members to store a year's worth of food for themselves and their families in preparation for such possibilities;[2] but the current teaching advises only a three-month supply.[2]
== Rhizomata ==
* Security; Risk
* Doomerism; Primitivism; Prepperism.
* Types of focus: Peak Oil, Industrial crash; Eco-disaster
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