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Bunkers aren't just for preppers any more

• https://www.fastcompany.com, BY NATE BERG

Are you ready for TEOTWAWKI? Do you have plans for the PAW?

If you're unfamiliar with these acronyms from the prepper community—the end of the world as we know it, the post-apocalyptic world—you're either not worried about the potential end or you're completely unprepared for it.

But a growing number of people are getting ready, and they're building the infrastructure they believe they'll need to survive whatever happens next.

Bradley Garrett, a professor of geography at University College Dublin, explores what preppers are building and selling in his new book, Bunker: Building for the End Times. It's a multicontinent journey into the physical spaces people have built and stocked so they can survive TEOTWAWKI and thrive in the PAW.

From Texas to Thailand, Garrett meets people preparing for doomsdays of various stripes and the "dread merchants" who've started (sometimes shady) businesses to accommodate their plans for the end. He visits a fledgling community built in semisubterranean munition storage bunkers in South Dakota, ventures down a "geoscraper" luxury bunker built in a former underground nuclear missile silo in Kansas, and steps inside heavily armored "bug-out" vehicles ready to ride out society's collapse, Mad Max-style.

 

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