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Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Instinct?
The Prepper Next Door In 2011, the television show Doomsday Preppers began airing on National Geographic, bringing mainstream attention to what appeared to be an obscure phenomenon. [1] The series featured “preppers” stockpiling bunkers with enormous amounts of food and ammunition while conducti
[1] The series featured “preppers” stockpiling bunkers with enormous amounts of food and ammunition while conducting drills to prepare for apocalyptic events such as an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) destroying modern technology or the collapse of society due to civil war. Smith & Thomas (2021) note that before the COVID-19 pandemic, doomsday prepping was sometimes associated with terms such as paranoia, conspiracy mentality, social dominance orientation, cynicism, and conservatism - but attitudes of the general public changed when COVID-19 lockdowns began in early 2020. [28] In ancient Peru, stone structures (qolcas) were constructed on the northern face of a mountain where icy wind produced natural refrigeration; they were used as a system of community food storage to help withstand times of bad harvest.
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