It use to be that stockpiling food and supplies, owning land and canning garden produce, and otherwise preparing for likely societal turmoil caused by ecosystem failure [search], resource scarcity [search], economic failure and other unknowns was seen as a bit kooky. But no longer as a “New Survivalism” emerges [ark] in response to the increasingly self-evident fact that the civilization we take for granted to be a thin veneer. What is increasingly evident is that stores of foods, tools and other supplies conducive to self-sufficiency [search] is just prudent — a type of insurance. People are relearning what it means to prepare for self-sufficiency and investing in energy frugal homes [ark], seeds and other self-evidently worthwhile protections for them and their family. There is no need to withdraw from society and arm yourself, though you may choose to do so. It just makes sense to be prepared.