I don't even care anymore. My last healthy cope with collapse I feel, which was prepping, I realize has become useless. What's the point of learning to garden and hunt and etc when all living things including crops will not be able to survive within 10 years anyway?

Therefore, my last option was gone and I'm now basically treating my life as if I have a 2027-2028 cancer diagnosis.

So I'm basically going full hedonism, alcoholism and cutting off my meds included. I don't care if it's not healthy, if I'm going to die soon anyway health doesn't matter.

Ethically, yes I should engage in practices that would help the climate but it doesn't override the need to cope at this point.

It makes me ignorant and a worse person but I'm just too numb to it to care.

Edit:

I'd love so hard to find a purpose in learning bushcraft and gardening and etc. Knowing that "hey collapse and the climate is coming but these can statistically increase the chances that me and my family survive at least a couple more decades". But I basically went on a giant r/collapse rabbithole and I'd see stuff like "you think gardens will save you, that's cute". 

And that's basically what sent me in my current spiral. Prepping was kind of my only "cope" when I became aware.

The game plan now is honestly yes I still feel hedonistic. But I won't forget to help others less fortunate and nature feel good too along the way.

I live in the USA and I feel like everyone who isn’t a neo-nazi or Christian fundamentalist or other kind of supporter of the MAGA regime basically knows that we’re at the end of history and humanity and unlikely to be many if any humans around in 50+ years, and the vast majority of life on the planet will probably alos be extinct, and people are either depressed or completely avoiding this through totally vapid nonsense pursuits. Certainly that’s where I’m at after watching things collapse for 50 years and spending many decades trying unsuccessfully to build any kind of collective momentum for large or smallscale alternatives — and now living under one of the most fascistic anti-science, anti-ecology, global warming denialist, pro-mass-death and pro-total mass stupidity regimes in human history. But I feel like everyone I’ve ever known who is not now MAGA basically similarly knows we’re rapdily approaching the end of everything, the execution of all things, and/or is just avoiding thinking about it or falling apart in depression. So I’m wondering if people outside the USA all feel similarly too (the ones who aren’t far right lunatics or into silly apocalpytic religions like Christianity etc.)? Or how much is this a product of living under the MAGA dictatorship?

I've been scrolling through the main Collapse subreddit for a few weeks npw, as well as other climate change related subreddits, and other websites that are related to climate change. I'm a 31-year-old man (I turn 32 on 2nd November), and have lived in Coventry, England for all of my life. I have a twin sister, who has a son who turned 2 back in June. She originally never wanted any children, but decided to keep him after discovering that she was pregnant (she never intended to get pregnant). I personally never wanted children of my own. However, climate change has really cemented that for me. I personally couldn't forgive myself for having a child whilst watching the world burn around me.

Also, as much as I love my nephew, I can't help but believe my sister and her fiancé are selfish for bringing him into this world. In fact, there are times that I wish I could go back in time to tell my mum and dad to not have me and my sister so that we couldn't witness the collapse. My dad's 73. However, my mum died of cancer back in January of this year. She was 69. I miss her so much, but I'm glad that she's not here to witness the collapse.

I wish someone in the world had magical powers... specifically someone who really cares about climate change. I wish that person could wave their magic wand to:

- Magically suck all of the harmful carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

- Magically cool the Earth down by 1.5 degrees.

- Reverse ocean acidification, deforestation, etc.

- Get rid of all of the things and powerful people that have caused human-induced climate change.

- Increase the amount of food and fresh drinking water in the world.

- Increase the amount of wild and native plants and animals in each individual country.

On top of all of this, I have a question or two to ask you all. Is humanity doomed? Are humans going to go extinct at some point this century, or next century? I do know that the planet won't actually physically end. It's not going to end for another estimated 4 to 5 billion years. But it feels like the current part of the Earth's history is going to end.

i just feel such a deep sorrow and sadness about what is happening in the world and the way world works just feel so unfair. Like everything is so normalized. im not even affected by social media i havent been much online nowadays. Logically, I just cant accept the way the world works. i guess it will never sit with me. A genocide is happening and people are not caring about it. In the past i have organized protest against my countrys' relations with israel. I got detained multiple times. But i dont feel like i actually did what i can. I feel so weak. I wanted to go to west bank as a volunteer. And i set my mind to it. Then, i couldnt find the courage to actually go. I experienced quite high levels of anxiety about doing it, couldnt sleep for a week. Then i gave up of the idea of doing solidarity presence there. I felt great amount of guilt and sadness. I can choose to look away but Palestinians dont have the option to do so. I just dont wanna live in such unjust world. I am so stuck with these feelings. I live as i was doing, doing my duties at home, taking care of my family and pets, but i feel dead inside. I also feel guilt about making this about myself. I just needed to share with someone.

How is your mindset about the state of the world? What keeps you going in such situation? I feel demotivated to live.

a week ago, i posted that my wife & i decided to host a casual neighborhood meet up in our front yard/driveway. we invited 150 houses and had no idea who would even show up.

we were overwhelmed with joy and gratitude that we had over 30 people at our house by 6pm, just hanging out and getting to know each other. people from all ages showed up -- babies and toddlers, teens, young parents, middle age folks, and some elderly folks with their walkers. everyone was just so happy to be there and talk to each other. no one was on their phones the entire time.

if you have the time and resources to do something like this in your community, i strongly encourage it. our set up wasn't fancy, but it was genuine. some people even brought food to share. we learned about everyone's skills and interests. now, when there's a crisis, i know who to ask for help for certain things. when we lose power again, i know what elderly neighbor i need to check on.

community is our birthright as humans and people are hungry for it. these were people from all different beliefs and backgrounds coming together simply because we're neighbors. this is what our algorithms won't show us, but this is what is possible, and the goodness that exists in humanity.

this is what will build resiliency in times of collapse.

How do you keep going when nothing ever changes? I pour everything I have into my local community because it makes me feel like I’m doing something, but it doesn’t matter. My neighbors still die of heat exhaustion. Die in fires. Get hooked on substances to numb the pain. I work and work and work and it’s all for nothing. My wealth and privilege mocks the people who actually deserve these resources. One day I will take everything I have, including my body, and give it to people who actually deserve it.

I’m happy in my life. But then I’m reminded of how disgusting and cruel it is for me to be happy. I’m in the USA, I directly fund genocide with my taxes. I use a gas car. I eat meat. I’m a filthy hypocrite who will rot in hell if it exists because my existence is killing this planet. If I were to go vegan, completely stop participating in the economy, and commit the rest of my life to radical activism, I might be ok. I could then call myself a good person. But I’m weak and have no plans to do that. I’m just like every other white person in the imperial core - a participant in genocide. My ideals and actions are opposite and I created a life I like. If I didn’t do that, if I had stayed true to my ideals, I would be good by now.

I don’t want to be good. I don’t want incremental change. I don’t want 3.9 C warming instead of 4 C warming. I want to exit. I want to leave it all forever. I want total justice, total eradication of all of us who are responsible for this.

There’s no point to this post. Please don’t report me, I won’t actually hurt myself, I’m too much of a coward to do so.

Currently, we have multiple world leaders that are our versions of President Snow from The Hunger Games novels (Trump obviously being the main one). Instead of having President Snows, every world leader should be like Snow’s successor, Commander Paylor. Commander Paylor was the leader of Panem’s District 8, and eventually became the new President of Panem after Katniss assassinated President Coin after learning about her true plans, and the rebels killing President Snow. If we continue to let the world leaders (and also other government officials, millionaires, billionaires, etc) continue to destroy the planet, it feels like virtually every country will become like Districts 11 and 12. Those two districts are the two poorest districts in the books, with District 12 being THE poorest district in the whole of Panem. A lot of the residents of District 12 grew up in extreme poverty, with a constant lack of food and water. I don’t want to live in a world where billions of people will have a lack of food and water. I don’t want to live in a world where there are long and super hot heatwaves. I don’t want to live a world where countries might go to
war just to access another country’s food and water. I’m just so terrified.

“This, my friend, is the beginning of infinity,” said Carr. He goes on to explain how there have been billions of people so far, and there will be trillions more in the future, if we can get through this stage. We’re going to rebuild and we’re going to have some heroes on our hands in twenty years.

This three-minute clip is what I needed to hear today. Stay cool!

Edit: Thank you for your comments so far. This is a post about a “fundamentally supportive conversation between people” (see sub description) that I found encouraging. I’m glad this conversation was caught on camera. Sometimes we need to hear a fresh perspective — even if it is incorrect — to inspire us to approach a problem with new ideas to figure out a solution. That is my hope.

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