"collapsitarian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009, Ben McGrath, “The Dystopians”, in The New Yorker:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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          "ref": "2009, Virginia Heffernan, “Apocalypse Ciao: Let the End Times Roll”, in Mother Jones:",
          "text": "Nowhere in the course of this collapsitarian spiel did there seem to be more than a cursory acknowledgment of the misery of mass unemployment and the vertigo that would befall a nation deprived of the foundations of its economy and cultural identity.",
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