Meaning of collapsitarian | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who desires or predicts a social or economic collapse.

Examples

“Kunstler resists the doomer label—“I’ve never been a complete collapsitarian,” he says—but the fact that one of his bombs detonates in Washington on “twelve twenty-one” is likely to please superstitious adherents of the Maya calendar, which concludes its first cycle on what is now the Internet’s most popular day of reckoning: December 21, 2012.”

“According to several self-styled collapsitarians, the world now faces a century of declines, the long emergency, environmental collapse, or peak everything.”

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