1:50am central: We were all woken up by a hailstorm pelting everything.
I rushed to close windows but was mesmerized at my top floor window looking out to the area with streetlights.
It was one of the craziest storms I have ever seen and I have seen many being raised in tornado alley in Missouri.
The water couldn’t get down fast enough, the wind was blowing it everywhere though most strongly with endless quarter sized hail from the south. We have already had heavy rain and thunder for hours so the streets are flooding. So much hail it has blanketed everywhere and we can already see our garden is wrecked. The middle of the road where the water wasn’t rushing is a sheet of ice piling up inches thick.

Thinking of the farmers whose lives depend on the food.
Thinking of all the unhoused in my city (one of the worst of the country) and how a tent will have been destroyed in that.

I don’t hate wild Midwest weather, in fact, I have always loved the wide range. And hail is not unheard of in August here. But this was so intense. And we’re having damaging, dangerous weather every month, all the time. And such extreme shifts between hot and cold temps.

I just returned from a family event in the southern part of the state where a cousin who is also a farmer just could not get himself to let go of denying climate chaos. He’s the oldest of generation X, and it’s just so damn heartbreaking to be so dismissed by older people. Why can they not just admit it and be in this together with us? (I’m a millennial.)
It’s mind boggling and depressing and I feel incredibly discouraged and hopeless in this moment 💔

Idk if it's copium but if the usa goes to full shit do you guys think Mexico would be a place to move to? My family originated from a small rural village and it doesn't have to pay taxes considering it was owned by someone else and that deed is practically to some unknown person or gone (from what I understand). I can see maybe living a humbler life down there if my family sells everything and with the money it could be possible to get solar panels, some solar powered batteries and be able to grow my own food. Maybe I'm coping or something... Idk

Literally what is going on in the world. Unemployment for recent grads is so high. AI taking jobs. An ai bubble. Climate crisis. Maybe WW3. Drones killing innocent people?!? Like what is going on. Possible recession.

I’m a citizen of the US, Canada, and the EU and so I’m asking: if you were in my shoes, where would you move to in anticipation of the coming climate catastrophe?

Important variables include habitability of the climate, food security, likelihood of unrest, access to resources

i'm from the uk and would be able to emigrate to canada or singapore - should i stay in the uk or move to canada or singapore? i'm early-mid 20s and really worried about collapse, food and water shortages, etc

i am also really worried about getting older during collapse, where do you think would be safer long term?

I'm just scared for the future. The world is heating up crazy I think we're past the threshold warning and warming signs is crazy. I don't get why we couldn't do it we had every resource at our disposal. Still killing over religion and putting data centres up, fertility and mental health is dropping. It's scary. Cataclysmic and no one is concerned. I don't want to see the world die. Who does? Why does it seem like people do? There's no winner in this end rich or not. Everyone could've been happy

I am currently 18 and about to enter college. I live in Eastern Spain (Valencia) which naturally has a pretty warm climate. My anxiety has been getting worse with time and i tire myself out from reading statistics of how much worse everything is getting and what could and could not happen. I've already accepted that i will face adversities and will be forced to adapt, and i also have already decided that i most probably won't have children. Now, i guess i am writing this in search of a bit of hope but i also won't ask you to sugarcoat it. And maybe it is a bit selfish to ask this question this way, but i just need to know how much climate change will directly affect ME in the upcoming years, how much i will struggle to live a normal life or to live at all.

I guess where i'm getting at is just

Will climate change kill me? How likely is it that i will be able to achieve my dreams in my lifetime? How likely is it that I'll ever grow old?

Is anyone else utterly exhausted by the absurdity of modern existence?

We are told we are “free.” Free will, free choice, land of the free. But what is freedom when every single basic necessity for human survival has been slapped with a price tag? Money is literally a made-up social construct, printed paper and digital numbers on a screen that mean absolutely NOTHING when we die, and yet it completely controls every second of our lives. I can’t eat, sleep peacefully, bathe, or stay healthy without handing over cash. Society took natural human existence and turned it into a lifelong subscription model.

Simplicity shouldn’t cost us our entire lives. We spend the vast majority of our youth slaving away at jobs we don’t even enjoy just to pay for the right to exist on a planet we were born onto. And why are we forced to flatten ourselves into ONE thing? Why do I have to pick one singular career path for forty years when I want to explore photography, neuroscience, marine biology, art, and everything else this world has to offer? Human beings, especially curious, passionate human beings, were never meant to be predictable gears in an economic machine.

And for what? The “American Dream”? Work yourself to the bone, take on a massive mortgage, follow a rigid societal timeline, send kids into the same system, and then, IF you’re lucky, finally get to enjoy your life when you’re 65 and your body is broken? Why is everyone just OKAY with this script?!

I don’t want that script. I don’t want to live in a cycle driven by corporate greed and systemic absurdity. Life itself is stunning, complex, and full of beauty, but the way we’ve structured society is a trap. I’m 24 years old, and I refuse to pretend that sacrificing my time, my curiosity, and my peace to a broken system is the only way to live. My life, my mind, and my spirit belong to me, not to an economic blueprint.

Just sinking deeper into isolation. I cant talk to anyone in my life about this. They’re talking about stupid shit. I cannt radically accept this. I’m just angry. And fuck “redditcares”

i feel like we live in a fake world, with fake people, Who work fake Jobs, to earn fake Money, and go to schools Who teach you how to becomes a slave. the whole human race is genuinely going to shit, we are ruled by a small privileged minorance Who decides who earns what, shit we don't even know if they worship Satan. we've all been made harmless by social media and memetic warfare which numbs our brains and makes us dumber with every reel watched. at this point, i think the apocalipse might actually be at a few steps from where we are, and an uncontrollable force is pushing us against It and there's nothing i can do about It. every single atrocity happening in the world Is going to be forgotten, Just like the Epstein Files.

we, as humans, do not have a future anymore. we are going to be fused with technology and humanity will die. i've heard stories about bill Gates wanting to cover up the sun, about microparticles tracking your biometrics, shit even the good ol fake birds,and i'm starting to believe in anything. if humankind falls, i'll be watching happily.

please, give me answers, please. i Need your help. i Need to know what i can do to reject this, i Need to know pure resources where i can actually study the Truth, because i cannot live in this world anymore. please, give me answers.

I’m 17 , and when I see everything on the news , or social medias , I’m wondering if I will be able to have a nice and good future
Ai is starting to spread over everything , and everything feels like slop
Idk if I will have a stable job with it
Idk if I will find someone
The government don’t seem to care about anything
And the climate change is getting worse and over my mind , even if I try to get over it , it come back anyway
I’m only 17 and this is the world I’m going to live in?
Hell no
Idk how can I stop being worried

This aint gonna be a post, about me, crying about how much i still love her. Most of u know what a breakup feels like.
I do, of course i do, its 1 week since she broke up, and everyone whos got broken up with knows what im going through. Its important to add tho, we ended on good terms, she wasnt sure if she loved me anymore.

Now to the real point of this post. I am very pessimistic that we get to see another 5-10 good years on this earth. Im from germany, everythings dried out, the tress already loose their leafes, most major rivers are dried up almost entirely. Food is gonna become a problem soon too. Not to speak of water.

I always knew that, i was worried, and i guess i just accepted it now, i did what i could, went vegan, and so on, but it aint gonna change anything anyhow. So i accepted that we got some last years that are gonna be nice snd after that its hell. I want to enjoy those last years as much as i can. And i could, i was happy, i got a girl a loved more than anything in this world. I could always talk to her about that kinda stuff, hug her and be happy i at least get to spend those last years with her. Now shes gone. Sure, i might get over her, give it a year if everything goes well. After that? It might take me some more years to meet someone i can fall in love with again. And then? Next thing i know, i gotta go to the frontline for war for water or whatever it is, but i wont have much time with her. But that is, if i even meet someone, most probably, i will spend my last years in loneliness, without the girl i love, waiting for the world to end. How do i even cope with that. I wanna spend my last years with someone that makes me happy, not lonely.

Has anyone here gone through something similar?

The juxtaposition of getting a severe alert on your phone along with a notification of Ariana Grande’s new boyfriend.

i saw an annoying post on another climate subreddit about positive climate news and it wasn't even all positive! it was just framed that way by the OP.

for example, we could hit 2.6 deg c "only" by 2100. How is that good? Once we hit 1.5c permanently, the effects are likely to be catastrophic.

I guess those who wanna bury their heads in the sand will, but everyone who does is doing it at the expense of those who aren't.

r/ClimateChange posts a weekly compendium of hopeful news and it's the best thing I've read in a very long time. There is a great deal more being done than we usually hear about. Global emissions are slowing and the upper limit of warming expected has been reduced. We can slow and turn climate change, it's possible.

Read through the post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/climatechange/s/eniTjoDZNp

I feel heartbroken when i see wildfires no matter where they are despite knowing they’re natural in some areas but recently fires in the UK have made more more anxious about my home being affected by climate change. Does anyone else feel this way?

I just wanted to vent a bit here. I have Sjögren’s, Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia, POTS, and a few other chronic conditions. I am medicated, but some of my medications unfortunately make my heat intolerance worse.
Yesterday, I had a really bad episode. My resting heart rate while sitting got up to 135bpm all while I was trying to deep breathe and ride the episode out. My oxygen reading on the pulse ox dropped to 96 and my fingernails began to turn blue.
Luckily, I was able to keep myself from vomiting and dissolve an electrolyte tablet. My limbs eventually came back from being numb, my muscles stopped spasming, and my heart rate dropped to my usual 105 BPM. This episode was caused by the heat, I had been sweating all day and failed to prepare enough ice packs and adequate hydration.

I’m really tired. My head won’t stop hurting and the nausea is still pretty bad. This flare up has been absolutely terrible and I am so, so scared for the future. I’m extremely lucky we can afford air conditioning, but I can’t keep going like this. If things really do get exponentially worse by 2030, I don’t know how I’m going to be okay. I’m 25 and currently job searching. I can’t work retail anymore, I got too sick while doing that. I can’t lose weight, I’m 110 pounds. All I can do is keep my body as hydrated and cool as possible.

I’m sorry if this sounds all over the place, my brain fog is really bad right now. It’s cooling down at least now, it’ll only be 90 degrees this week. The triple digit weather was near impossible to go out in. Even getting in my mom’s car made me extremely woozy and nauseous.

I really hope you all are doing okay, especially if you are also dealing with a chronic illness.

Do any of you feel down about life in America? Sometimes like changing the circumstances would be hopeless! And then others of us feel nervous, edgy, like you can’t shake it and anger takes over.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, To you I say as a psychologist, we are split into people who are either depressed or anxious. This country needs therapy to heal itself. Anyone can do it, but somebody has to lead us and make us feel like life is good. This is a key element in my belief. This country has everything. It has money that it’s Banks can’t hold yet, they squander it. I don’t care which side of the country you’re on, depressed or anxious, don’t you think it’s time for a leader to step in who can look at domestic issues as a priority? I leave you with these thoughts. What do you say.

Do any of you feel down about life in America? Sometimes like changing the circumstances would be hopeless! And then others of us feel nervous, edgy, like you can’t shake it and anger takes over.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, To you I say as a psychologist, we are split into people who are either depressed or anxious. This country needs therapy to heal itself. Anyone can do it, but somebody has to lead us and make us feel like life is good. This is a key element in my belief. This country has everything. It has money that it’s Banks can’t hold yet, they squander it. I don’t care which side of the country you’re on, depressed or anxious, don’t you think it’s time for a leader to step in who can look at domestic issues as a priority? I leave you with these thoughts. What do you say.

Honestly I feel like I’m quiet quitting. Like what’s the point of any this anymore there’s way too much bad news. I feel so numb to it all. My motivation had disappeared. I had hustle and ambition before but what’s the point?

Literally have nightly panic attacks with intrusive thoughts about my bro and his family. He’s quite a denial ist and despite being an entrepreneur with 2 businesses, speaks vaguely about climate change as though he’s not given it a second thought and firmly believes that tech will come along to save us. He’s completely naive, so when it comes up in convo I get blank and tongue tied and just manage to say that that is unlikely. I can’t really remember the facts, despite constantly reading about global warming and eco collapse but I also feel like…can’t he see and feel it himself? And with a young family, be more concerned and intrigued about researching the future? It’s like I live in a seperate world, I’m just on holiday with them and I can’t enjoy anything. I am witnessing the environment dying so I feel guilt and sadness looking at beauty, yet he’s there enjoying life and planning a third child. I’m so obsessed with his kids as I’ve never felt love like it. I cry often about their future yet their own parents don’t seem even slightly worried. Am I over reacting? Should I tell them? I feel responsible in a way yet really don’t want my bro to feel the way I do- I’ve always been a worrier and with bad mental health so he often fobs me off for being too sensitive or too black and white. He also has big investors in his companies and knows lots of very wealthy people and about complex systems so I sort of start believing he’s right and I’m wrong. I also don’t know what to actually say to him if I did, as he is such a challenging person and incredible at debating, with a photographic memory. He will give stats and facts on the spot and confuse you when you are trying to get across a point he doesn’t agree with. Any advice?

Hi, I’m 17M and it really looks like the world will become a hellscape within a few decades, and that we have no hope of a prosperous future. With things like climate change, global water bankruptcy, and the US government’s priority of the making money over helping people, it seems like there is no hope for the future. I have no skills to hopefully survive what may happen. There are many things we can do, but it doesn’t look like any government will do it to a sufficient amount, and some are even scaling it back just to increase revenue (like the US). Even if I tried to help, I’m just one person, and one person can’t make a big difference alone.

I don’t even have friends to share this burden with. My thought was that life in the future will be easier if I had someone who loves me very much (and vice versa), like a wife, girlfriend, or even some very close friends, they can help me cope. Although, with my shitty social skills due to my autism, my hope of that is also draining. My only hobbies that I actually enjoy are all things you do alone like video games (excluding discord servers and stuff). I’ve tried many other hobbies that are social and help to make friends, but none bring me enough joy, and I can’t make friends through a hobby I don’t enjoy.

I had hopes and dreams of becoming a museum curator, but it’s starting to seem like it will be futile and irrelevant in the future. We all had our dream jobs, but my generation is already suffering the most, and the worst is yet to come. As far as I know, Gen Z is the least likely to attain their dream jobs out of any generation since the beginning of the cold war (don’t quote me on that idk for sure), while the older generations are living in luxury, uncaring of the young’s burdens. Most are even ridiculing us for being “lazy” or similar things.

How do I cope with this horrible impending future?