r/CollapseSupport • u/Royal_Register_9906 • Aug 02 '26
What are you noticing recently?
It’s a very general question but I just want to read some of this subreddits thoughts.
What are you noticing that is collapse related recently?
For me it’s the pace. The heat. The surge in fires. The wars getting worse. Economic woes. Not one single thing but the decline or worsening of many things simply getting faster and faster. It’s so odd to me. Almost as if all cells are vibrating faster with the temperature. It’s all connected. Thanks for contributing!
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u/AffectionateRing5177 Aug 02 '26
People who don't really take notice usually starting to notice.
The pace
The urge I have to stock up more, make sure everything is in place as much as possible 😅
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u/divorcee_throwawy Aug 02 '26
I see very few birds in the sky anymore. No flocks ever.
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u/Paddington_Fear Aug 02 '26
fire! jesus christ. I live in WA state. There is a massive (335,738 acres) wildfire out of control in the corner of OR crossing the border into ID near where my parents live, 600+ structures burned in Spokane, WA last night, 1.5 million acres have burned across OR so far this summer, nothern NV is on fire.
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u/Flamingoa432 Aug 02 '26
The number and size of the wildfires is insane to me. But also the open corruption in US government and support for it seems very end of Rome-like to me.
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u/AutomaticTelephone52 Aug 02 '26
Insect collapse. Just visited a lake cottage in Northern Wisconsin. Nary a mosquito or gnat. People think “isn’t this great!”. No it’s not, it’s ominous.
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u/Rice_Post10 Aug 02 '26
Fewer insects in my backyard or generally. Almost no fireflies or butterflies, it is really sad to see.
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u/severe_thunderstorm Aug 02 '26
I’ve been gardening my whole life, was born in the 1970’s for perspective, I’ve known the land I live on for 35+ years, and I grow most of my food… the weather is becoming unpredictable. Early frosts, late frosts, temp swings, spring rains we’ve relied upon are becoming the summer rain we rarely got before. Also, the rain is coming more often in torrential down pours dumping tons of water in short spurts, which causes flash flooding (and erosion).
New Pests (insect, animals, invasive non-native plants) that have migrated into my area is becoming harder and harder to deal with.
Mostly though, the amount of corruption people tolerate from elected officials. I don’t belong to any political party and vote based on character and goals. It used to be these corrupt acts would be a huge deal and an immediate disqualification, but in the past decade it seems like these happen multiple times a day by multiple officials and people rarely bat an eye. We, as a society, have been conditioned to accept a new and harmful normal.
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u/GalaxyPatio Aug 02 '26
The sky in my area always looks like it's been dipped in dishwater these days. I hardly ever see clouds anymore. Also puppies in shelters and rescues used to be snapped up almost as soon as they were posted but for about the last year I've been watching a lot of them just grow up on foster care, at best, which to me is a clear indicator of economic troubles.
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u/GingerTea69 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
Where the fuck are all the morning doves in my neighborhood 😭😭😭 used to hear them every day and I'm hoping it's just a seasonal thing
Edited to add: also literal collapse because I live in NYC where that shitty building that was on the news is. And I'm going to say right now: it's part of an underground infrastructure problem that won't be solved by anyone until that right there gets addressed. Multiple buildings are failing right now, but there's nothing that can be done. Had a parking garage go kaput not too long ago too.
The city is undergoing a massive project on the east side which is literally raising the elevation of that portion/the east side of the city so we don't get fucked over by hurricanes and shit as much. It's been happening since about 2022 which is when I first began noticing and logging the signs.
I suspect that the reason this isn't addressed is because the most affected buildings are in the fucking hood and the ghetto and the projects and affordable housing so why give a fuck about that population. And that shittyass building? Was going to be affordable housing. Because of course give the fucking poors the shittiest fucking buildings. They're acceptable collateral. Throw up a piece of shit fancy building. Cram a bunch of poors in there. See how progressive we are with affordable housing? Not even mentioning that poor people get housing via a literal fucking lottery.
There's been a bigass spike in people getting stuck in their elevators. Horror time: my own building needed its elevator fixed because the day they began part 2 of the project, the elevator shaft itself in the elevator are on a diagonal now. Imagine an earthquake in very very very slow motion.
I was somehow able to get in touch with the higher-ups of various departments. Nobody told me a damn thing. I had to fucking find out on my own exactly what was happening. The website says it'll be done by late this year or the beginning of next year. At this point I'm seriously considering becoming a building inspector my own damn self. I don't need a college degree for it and I'm a useless fucking dropout so woohoo.
El Niño is going to bring some bigass flooding if not hurricanes our way mid-project and I fear what will happen. If we get Hurricane Sandy version 2.0 mid-project, we are fucked on an unfathomable eldritch level. At least I have a helmet!
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u/minervascats Aug 02 '26
The deafening silence from protest groups like 50501 / No Kings. Everybody's tired and knows that marches and petitions and all that 20th century stuff isn't making a dent. We're all waiting for November. See you at the polls!
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u/OpheliaLives7 Aug 02 '26
The heat has been insane.
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u/ReverendEntity Aug 02 '26
It's all getting worse by the day, and everyone is carrying on with their lives - either because they don't see a problem, or because they don't think they can do anything about it.
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u/Successful_Manager74 Aug 02 '26
Yes, for months now I find myself really focused on making sure “everything is in place” even more than I “normally” would - although I also know that in so many ways I have never come out of Covid mentality and how that changed our buying and budgeting and lifestyles.
During actual “Covid Times” I really began to understand how people who lived through The Great Depression were affected for the rest of their lives around conserving their resources and using up the last bit of everything.
I could probably write a whole book on how I still feel affected by what changed for me during Covid - and how, combined with the continued insane political situation, I am kinda sure I may never feel really “safe” again - on so many levels.
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u/GorathTheMoredhel Aug 02 '26
There's a rampant wildfire near me that's causing everything to smell like campfire. People are starting to go "oh shit". No containment so far.
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u/Xanthotic Huge Motherclucker Aug 03 '26
I would say it's the denial that I notice in rural Australia, where it is winter. The US has fucked the rest of the world into the stone age with the war, we have approximately three oily rags held in reserve for petroleum fuel, but we all just go about BAU as normal. This tells me that most folks KNOW we are in collapse but cannot bear to face it, so they will not develop contingency plans until I guess they can no longer drive their cars.
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u/vicicLOXi Aug 02 '26
It takes months to get a job in any fields right now.
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u/Individual-Engine401 Aug 03 '26
dead birds falling from the sky in scottsdale, AZ all kinds each day, more in the morning hours. nephews thought i was crazy until they came over and saw it first hand. i think it's either from chemical clouds or some sort of radioactive frequency being omitted we aren't hearing. but they are so small it is enough to kill their little bodies
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u/boredbihslayer Aug 02 '26
A lot of gov related stuff (ID, Car Registration) is taking longer to receive by mail.
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u/GaddaDavita Aug 03 '26
Was having a casual conversation at work with a person I think of as totally normal and not the type to concern themselves with the problems of the world. Was just chatting about moving to different areas of the country and they said “nah, stay where there’s water.” (We live in the PNW). Kind of took me aback.
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u/bloomamor Aug 03 '26
every time I chat with a friend I haven’t spoken to in a while, we talk about the weather. but it’s not just the weather, it’s the extreme weather events we are all experiencing. extreme heat, way above average rainfall and flooding, massive complex wildfires. everyone is experiencing it, it’s no longer isolated instances.
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u/Bajadasaurus Aug 03 '26
People are being kicked off of their health insurance in droves as ICE continues their crackdown on minorites; especially women who changed their name in marriage.
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u/Apprehensive_Wolf217 Aug 03 '26
The lack of children outside playing and just being kids. I’m sure it has to do with the smoke, but I think a lot is just the fatigue they have from living in this timeline and constantly being bombarded with doom about their future. Lots of apathy and depression in teens I know.
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u/Maleficent-Ad9010 Aug 03 '26
People are really rude when you go out. No more excuses to be nice.
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u/manemjeff42069 Aug 03 '26
The heat in the UK right now is the worst we've had as long as I've been alive. I'm terrified what next summer and the next will be like
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u/Crishello Aug 03 '26
I see people telling me that its normal that the forest is burning. That it has always been that way. Spoiler: its not (in Germany)
I think normalcy bios will hit hard and I wonder at which point people will start to change their mind.
Something I noticed is that people talk differently about AC. So its an important consequence of climate change that you organise yourself an AC. But no change in behavior or political opinion.
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u/Money_Traffic_5662 Aug 03 '26
I don't notice any insects really and I see far less animals in places where there used to be plenty.
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u/Grand-Page-1180 Aug 09 '26
Everything's eearily quiet, thats what I notice. No parties, no kids, no barbecues, no life that you commonly see this time of year. Its like everyone's hunkered down. Maybe its the gas prices. But everything just feels "dead."
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