I know. I'm scared too. Have a hug from Amsterdam.

r/collapse is the only thing I miss from reddit, which I quit because of the evil management.

I've been collapse-aware for a decade now. Surprisingly, pretty well all my friends are too, and I've known them since before that.

And it does get easier in some ways. Oh, it breaks my fucking heart to see children, what is going to happen to them, what horrors will they see? It bothers me all the time, but it has stopped being a burning pill in my throat and become a truth that I live with, much like personal extinction.

I don't know if this will make you feel better or worse, but after thinking about it pretty hard for a long time, I don't think there was going to be any path didn't lead to this end sooner or later.

At some point, people en masse would have to give up a lot of their lifestyle and their luxuries in order to prevent catastrophe 50 years down the road. And they would have had to do this based purely on abstract numbers and science.

It was never going to happen. Like individual humans, our society came with an expiration date.

I'm just glad to be here at our peak, and I suppose I'm lucky that I'm old and will miss the old parts.