Survivalism & Preparation
Survivalism:
An answer to predicted catastrophes?
In the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are preparing for the end of the world.
Survivalists are stockpiling food, training to survive in the wild, and some have already bought bunkers to prepare for disasters.
Is this an American oddity?
Just another end of the world scenario, or one of the responses to the global risk of collapse of our thermo-industrial society?
A report by Nicolas Rossier followed by a discussion with Pablo Servigne, a collapsologist and author of "How Everything Can Collapse" (published by Seuil), and Kim Pasche, an experimental archaeologist and guardian of ancestral knowledge.
(Aired on RTS's "Faut pas croire" program, March 3, 2018)