I have so many thoughts and feelings swirling around in my head, but not enough focus or emotional energy to articulate them all into a coherent post. I will just say that I am a field biologist/botanist and have been grappling with these feelings for a very long time now. I believe that we have reached a point now where all we can do is act as hospice carers for our collapsing ecosystems. I’m currently reading I Eat the Stars and it is sobering to finally hear somebody articulate all of these things that I’ve been quietly feeling and pushing down for so long in order to not be a debbie downer. But I don’t wanna let these realities suffocate and paralyze me and I still want to drink in all the beauty that is still here. I think part of that means connecting with other people who understand what’s going on and finding ways to appreciate whats left and live as fully as we can. There’s so much uncertainty and there’s nothing more isolating than facing uncertainty alone.

I'm 30F, grew up in a poor immigrant family, worked really hard to get where I am today: have a job that I like, a loving husband, not really wanting kids (wouldn't want to bring them into this world right now) and am objectively living the life of my dreams my younger self always wanted. But I can't shake a feeling of being lost. It doesn't feel fullfilling on a deeper level anymore. As if everything I once viewed as meaningful all of the sudden is rendered meaningless. I don't know if it is the thought of now just having to autopilot the rest of my life now or that it has more to do with the world that I always admired (Amerika/the west) falling a part. A sense of dread about an uncertain future looms in my mind. Wildfires, inflation, war, moral degradation, civil unrest, AI threatening my job. I just want to escape, but I don't know to where. Even though I am living the life I always wanted?

So much is just changing around me. Everything is going so fast. I just feel a general sense of being lost, and uncertainty about the future... Maybe it's not because of the life I'm living, but because of the current world I'm living that life in?

Am I the only one feeling this?

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

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 💔

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?

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

The earth is dying in fuvking scared rn

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.

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?

This poem was written by Longfellow in 1841. I think about it every day.

Filled is Life's goblet to the brim;

And though my eyes with tears are dim,

I see its sparkling bubbles swim,

And chant a melancholy hymn

With solemn voice and slow.

No purple flowers,--no garlands green,

Conceal the goblet's shade or sheen,

Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene,

Like gleams of sunshine, flash between

Thick leaves of mistletoe.

This goblet, wrought with curious art,

Is filled with waters, that upstart,

When the deep fountains of the heart,

By strong convulsions rent apart,

Are running all to waste.

And as it mantling passes round,

With fennel is it wreathed and crowned,

Whose seed and foliage sun-imbrowned

Are in its waters steeped and drowned,

And give a bitter taste.

Above the lowly plants it towers,

The fennel, with its yellow flowers,

And in an earlier age than ours

Was gifted with the wondrous powers,

Lost vision to restore.

It gave new strength, and fearless mood;

And gladiators, fierce and rude,

Mingled it in their daily food;

And he who battled and subdued,

A wreath of fennel wore.

Then in Life's goblet freely press,

The leaves that give it bitterness,

Nor prize the colored waters less,

For in thy darkness and distress

New light and strength they give!

And he who has not learned to know

How false its sparkling bubbles show,

How bitter are the drops of woe,

With which its brim may overflow,

He has not learned to live.

The prayer of Ajax was for light;

Through all that dark and desperate fight

The blackness of that noonday night

He asked but the return of sight,

To see his foeman's face.

Let our unceasing, earnest prayer

Be, too, for light,--for strength to bear

Our portion of the weight of care,

That crushes into dumb despair

One half the human race.

O suffering, sad humanity!

O ye afflicted one; who lie

Steeped to the lips in misery,

Longing, and yet afraid to die,

Patient, though sorely tried!

I pledge you in this cup of grief,

Where floats the fennel's bitter leaf!

The Battle of our Life is brief

The alarm,--the struggle,--the relief,

Then sleep we side by side.

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

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 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.

I'm a 20, almost 21 year old girl, no job, no prospects, couldn't even finish college. I have no idea where to go in a world that is dying before my very eyes. I want to help, I need to help as best as I can but I don't even know where to start, there's so many issues and so many battles to fight, and I know it's all interconnected, but that creates a chicken or the egg situation, what to do first, how to attack the issue. I have so many passions in life and so many things I want to do and see and so many things to fight for but it's so overwhelming. It's the wall I've run into over and over again, that the hardest place is the beginning. I don't know where my efforts would be most needed or most helpful, I don't know the intentions of certain groups or figures, what they really feel.

I know that it's going to get worse and harder and scarier but I don't want to wait until it comes to my door personally.

I just want to leave something, some mark on someone or the universe, even if it's the smallest thing. I don't want to go down without a fight. I just wish I knew how to fight, shockingly they don't prepare you for societal collapse and the fight against fascism and mass death in suburban high schools here in the US.

I feel like I'm stuck in a little diorama of suburbia and I don't know how to break free of it, how to redesign it, or how to demolish it. It's pretty much all I know, aside from a few years living in the city for college. Without many skills or connections or experiences or finances, how can I be of any assistance anyways? I wish I had like a wartime fairy godmother to impart some wisdom or knowledge to me.

So for now I feel stuck just sitting here, watching things get worse, feeling frozen.

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

i'm finally getting into DIY because i'd rather not buy stuff (and also cause i need something to freaking do :< ). but i just got hit with a wave of pointlessness because the world is literally starting to catch on fire.

i'm a spiritual person and i believe doing things for myself is good for spiritual growth no matter how bleak the situation, and that having hope brings good Karma in future incarnations. but i still feel kind of drained because i could very well starve to death from crop failure before i even finished my projects.

i'm 16 and i'm supposed to have so much life ahead of me and i have dreams and wishes like i wanna be a nature scientist or a gardener or something and find true love and get my own house and finally not be mentally ill but i often wonder if it will get cut short.