Even if you're coping, you feel it—the world is sliding toward catastrophe. As a historian who's analyzed secular crises (French Revolution, Wars of Religion, Black Death), I see the same demographic patterns repeating. With developed nations losing HALF their populations and fragile global supply chains collapsing, this isn't abstract history anymore—it's our future. Drawing on personal wilderness experience and apocalypse-prepper wisdom, I'll show practical ways to navigate what's coming.

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The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer

Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin

Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin

The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan

Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan

The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan

The Economics of Discontent by Jean Michel Paul

On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Atrocities by Matthew White

The Ages of American Capitalism by John Levy

Strategy by Lawrence Freeman

Long Cycles by Goldman

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Evil by Baumeister

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt

The Secret to our Success by Joseph Heinrich