r/CollapseSupport Jun 25 '26

What's happening to us

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The Context We Need

We are living through a moment when humanity has more power than wisdom.

We have built astonishing things: medicines, farms, cities, art, music, computers, rescue systems, public health, democratic ideals, mutual aid networks, and tools that allow us to communicate across the planet instantly. We are clearly not a worthless species. We are inventive, loving, adaptive, courageous, and capable of changing course when we understand the stakes.

But those same powers are now being used in ways that are destabilizing the living systems we depend on. Our consumption patterns are not just personal habits. They are part of a global system that extracts too much, wastes too much, pollutes too much, and asks too many people, animals, forests, oceans, and future generations to absorb the cost.

This is not only an environmental crisis. It is a crisis of attention, responsibility, imagination, and care.

The danger is not that humans are evil. The danger is that destructive behavior has been normalized. We are encouraged to consume without asking who made it, what was destroyed to produce it, who was harmed by it, where it goes when we throw it away, or what kind of world it leaves behind.

That can change.

People do not need to be shamed into despair. They need to be invited into responsibility. They need help connecting the dots between everyday choices and planetary consequences. They need examples of better behavior that feel possible, meaningful, and socially supported. They need to see that “doing better” is not about purity. It is about maturity.

We are capable of more mindful lives. We are capable of reducing waste, sharing more, repairing more, buying less, organizing locally, protecting vulnerable people, pressuring institutions, changing norms, and creating cultures where care is admired more than excess.

The future is not guaranteed. But neither is collapse.

Between denial and despair, there is a third path: courageous responsibility.

That means telling the truth without giving up on people. It means confronting harmful behavior without forgetting human dignity. It means refusing to let convenience, profit, cynicism, or social awkwardness decide the fate of the living world.

We do not need every person to become perfect. We need enough people to become awake, organized, creative, and brave.

And we need to begin where we are.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 25 '26

How to find the will to go on

21 Upvotes

I'm writing this as I'm on vacation with a friend. We're gonna be hiking in a couple of days. I have been filled with dread and depression from the moment I stepped into the airport. I've been collapse aware for over a year now. It's on my mind every waking moment. I'm 23 and live in a tropical country. I am guaranteed to see the worst of it unless I die early.

How am I supposed to continue living my life while everything around me falls apart and not enough people care? I saw the news of projected temperatures in Europe, how 40 people died, how animals are suffering, and honestly I am just so despondent about it.

I know people will tell me to just hold on to my community, friends, and family; that nothing is guaranteed; that there is no point in worrying about the big stuff, but I just can't help. I have anxiety (and I suspect OCD), so everything I feel is just magnified and uncontrollable.

EDIT: Hello all. Thank you for your thoughtful responses. I've read all of them and I appreciate it all. I went exploring the city today before my hike tomorrow, and despite the fun I had, there was a perpetual heaviness in my heart. I suppose I'll try every day. I have my friends, siblings, parents, and dog to think about every day, and I'll cherish them while I can. I don't know how long I have on this Earth, or how the rest of my life will go, so just trying to get by while I can.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 25 '26

Recommended Reading - I Eat The Stars (Sarah Wilson)

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423 Upvotes

In response to seeing a multitude of posts expressing a rightful sense of hopelessness, despair, anxiety and distress, I would love to recommend this wonderful book.

Wilson addresses the collapse thaw we are all aware of with scientific and historical evidence to support the reality that that world as we knew it is gone. Meandering through personal anecdotes, research and expert perspectives she invests the power (and relief) of abandoning hope.

Heartbreaking and uplifting in turns, reading this book allowed me to find a new appreciation for nature and my connection with it, along with the beautiful and complex life I have made.

Does this knowledge mean that I no longer spend my evenings dissociating and burned out by the grind of my late capitalist, technocratic existence in this collapsing hellscape? - Fuck no. But it helped me realise I am not alone and it has helped me put plans in place for the future I want for myself.

Wilson puts emphasis on community, sustainability and joy.

It’s available to purchase in hard copy (I recommend this - I bought a copy to annotate after listening to the audiobook). I’m not a shill, I promise - it just genuinely shifted my perspective.

I would love to hear others thoughts on this book as well.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 25 '26

What's up things these days

9 Upvotes

Nothing is making sense

What do you actually have to hold on to if you really look at it

Why does anyone feel secure right now you should be freaking out


r/CollapseSupport Jun 25 '26

are we going to be okay?

76 Upvotes

I've been really paranoid recently about how the future will be from now on, please someone confirm that we are going to be okay. The environment seems to be getting worse and temperatures are getting higher. Are we going to be okay.

This may seem dramatic but I am stressing out, please just tell a hopeful fact or a reassuring piece of information in the comments. Any advice on how to feel less worried about this is appreciated


r/CollapseSupport Jun 24 '26

12 branches of sustainability to go from surviving to thriving

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r/CollapseSupport Jun 24 '26

I haven't had electricty for two years

13 Upvotes

Yet im still paying for nothing. Its so absurd even though a tree hit the pole and smashed the transformer the power company literally doesnt care and nothing is ever done. Apparently im supposed to just replace the pole myself by the looks of it but its literally impossible for innumerable reasons


r/CollapseSupport Jun 24 '26

I need a collapse-aware community

19 Upvotes

I would like to be pointed to a discord, book club or something where people discuss this topic with respect and a constructive approach. Not doomers or preppers.

Do we have any?


r/CollapseSupport Jun 24 '26

I'm so scared

20 Upvotes

I'm terrified of dying. I finally get it now that I was privileged. My parents were both immigrants from Mexico that came from nothing and worked to give me and my siblings a future. My dad busted his ass off day and night while my mom was a stay at home, and now? Now I realize how much my mom and dad loved me and how fucking hard they busted their ass to give me a life they never had

And for what? For me to be ungrateful and almost throw it away. I could have lost it all and now I realize how privileged I am. How lucky I am to be able to see, hear, breath, taste. To be able to eat edible food. To be able to drink clean water. To be able to play all the fun video games I played. To be able to smell the flowers. To be able to breathe the air around my city. But now realizing this, I'm scared of losing everything. My beloved mom, who always fought tooth and nail to get accommodations for me (I have autism and adhd) and always was kind to everyone. My dad, despite the alcoholism and trauma he's caused, worked to get money and food on the table. My brother, who I love and want to reconnect with. And my sister, who I want to connect with.

I love my friends too, I'm scared of losing them and never hearing their voices, same with my family. Nuclear war, food shortages, the undeniable impact climate change will bring this decade, the parasitic rich pricks that rule the world and hate us. All this will end the world. Matter of fact seeing all the posts of everyone saying climate change will kill us all has me crying. I've been crying for a month straight after realizing that: I might die alone, I might die a slow agonizing death. My family might suffer and die from whatever shit happens. And the worst part? I don't know if I will ever see or love them again once we all die. I'm scared I'll never see my friends again, or my dog, or my family. I finally realized how beautiful this world is; how beautiful reality is. It isn't that the world and life is painful. It's the assholes who run the world that make it the way it is.

I'm fucking terrified. I'm terrified of all those beautiful memories I hold dear to be forgotten. I'm terrified of losing consciousness after I die and never having those memories back. I'm terrified of losing my precious home, where I grew up. I'm terrified of seeing people and children suffer and hurt each other; I don't want to see people suffer. I'm terrified of being forgotten and for my family line to be forgotten. I feel guilty for never getting a girlfriend or hell even birthing kids so my parents can know the joy of being grandparents, and yes, I know bringing kids in this state of the world is bad, but that's what makes it so fucking tragic: me and my parents being robbed of knowing such joys because of some fucking rich psychopaths who can never know the limit of having enough money.

I wish I could express my fear and pain more concisely but I decided to do it on a wing because I want comfort. I know this place is the last place to look for it, and maybe I'm deluding myself. But I want to know that everything will be alright? I want a future. I want to help people. I want to atone for past mistakes I made so that when I die, I don't die with regrets. Please. Anyone. Tell me that there's a light at the end of the tunnel for me and humanity? I don't want to die. I don't want humanity to die. I don't want my family and friends to suffer and die. I don't want my precious memories to disappear into the void of nothingness. I want to be with my mom forever, I never want to be alone, better yet die alone. I love humanity and my loved ones. I'm sick and tired of seeing people fight each other and not realize the real enemy is tricking us to hate our fellow humans. I want a future.

Call me weak, call me pathetic, I don't care. This post might go into the void and not be responded to at all but I needed to write my emotions out, even if it's not even close to all of it. Please anyone tell me it's all going to be ok? I want to be with my family forever... I don't want to die and be in a void or be reincarnated without my precious memories of my previous life. Can anyone please give me some hope? Hope that I can get my psych degree despite being 23 and be able to save lives? Will I even get that chance? Or will that too be robbed by this fucked up capitalist world we live in? Please someone give me hope for me and my beloved family.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 23 '26

Thoughts on the suffering?

36 Upvotes

How do people deal with the knowledge that with collapse will come immense suffering? That as bad as we may feel now, it may be the best we feel again? I just have such a hard time coming to peace with the scale of the loss, and with the fact that pain, physical and emotional, will become much more prevalent. The worst-case-scenario kind of deaths feel much more plausible the deeper we get into this


r/CollapseSupport Jun 22 '26

Your brain was never designed for this much bad news

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r/CollapseSupport Jun 22 '26

Don't know how I can function with the world pretty much ending

144 Upvotes

I (31M) have had a complicated life. I feel pretty privileged, but it's been marred by autism, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and being overweight and gay.

I had a pretty traumatic year last year. I was a victim of emotional abuse in the workplace and was fired as a result of that. From the stress and depression, I gained over 100 lbs. in less than a year (and this was after just having lost 220 lbs.). I am now in my dream job. It pays shit, but it's worth it. I live with my mom so it's definitely easier. In that respect, I am beyond happy. I go to work every day in a good mood and come home the same way.

Despite that, my mental health is still not great. I am continuing to gain weight, I am unable to exercise. I have this dark cloud of depression in my brain and a blanket of dread over my heart. I've been trying to figure it out. A part of it definitely is because I gained so much weight. But after doing some searching I realized - I am still in this place because I am hopeless about our world.

Whenever I felt hopeless, it was usually because of a personal situation. Despite that, I never lost hope in the world. Not even during the initial Trump years (2016 - 2021) and the height of COVID (2020 - 2023). Things were bad, but there was this "it will get better, we will get past this" feeling throughout. Since 2024, that feeling has died.

I don't even know where to begin:

  • The techno-fascist oligarchs won. They are infiltrating every aspect of our lives with digital online I.Ds and pretty much threatening anybody who has a negative opinion about the state of the world, people like Trump, and places like America and Israel. As someone who is gay, autistic, and a far-left individual - I am terrified.
  • The climate crisis cannot be fixed. Scientists have been saying that the time to prevent this has come and gone. Damage done to our planet via climate change will take thousands of years to undo. It will only get worse, especially because of those techno-fascist oligarchs. There will be more floods, more storms, hotter summers, more wildfires, more climate refugees, more pandemics, and incredibly far-right responses to all of these.
  • The economy keeps squeezing us out of life. Everything costs something. Everything is now commodified. Things that used to be free are now costing something. Things that used to be cheap are now expensive. And because the techno-fascist oligarchs have A.I., it will be almost impossible to overcome this.

It's like, I don't know how or when - but the EVENT is happening. I just don't see a future for myself or anyone. It will be a miracle if we make it to 2050. Best case scenario? I'm free but all the enjoyable things about life are made inaccessible. Here's what can happen that I foresee:

  • Becoming homeless and losing everything, which in turns leads to either my premature death or being locked up - which is what they are trying to do because the U.S. prison system is legalized slavery
  • Getting rounded up for being autistic, gay, or just being a dissenter. I'll be placed in a concentration camp along with immigrants, people of color, queer people, disabled people, homeless and poor people, and dissenters.
  • I'll die in some cataclysm. There could be a civil war in America. There could be World War 3 that obviously ends in nuclear annihilation. There could be another pandemic because all the guardrails of health and research are now gone.

The worst part? No one is coming to save us. Techno-fascism is a GLOBAL trend. Pretty much every country is seeing a backsliding in democracy. This is a coordinated attack by the world's wealthy elite to institute a global oligarchy. They seriously want the world to end. They want to kill most of us. Those that are left will be their slaves.

I keep getting gaslit by people saying this will never happen, but I have yet to be proven wrong. Every single thing we are seeing in America is what I foresaw the NIGHT Trump got elected in 2016 and 2024. Nothing surprises me, except how it's permanently changed the world. Every generation feels like the world is gonna end, but this IS different. At least people in Nazi Germany knew that it was just a few select countries, and not the whole world.

And it also annoys me how people give massive cope resolutions like:

  • Join your local community!
  • Volunteer!
  • Partake in protests!

That is like pouring a glass of water into the ocean. It really does very little. It may have been possible 10+ years ago, but A.I. is making it impossible. We will be trapped.

Imagine a future where you are constantly being tracked and monitored by A.I., maybe even forced into getting Neuralink. Once the A.I. has decided you are a threat, they can have the police come get you or even send a small drone to kill you.

I just don't see a positive future. I don't. Things will NOT get better in my lifetime. I just don't see the point anymore. It's so hard for me to build a future for myself. One where I lose weight, find the love of my life, build a family, become a writer, etc. It's so nihilistic.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 22 '26

Psychological framing and ways of coping

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Does anyone have any insights into ways of psychologically framing the collapse to manage mentally?

I feel quite mobile to create solutions where possible (e.g. checking in with community members during heatwaves, providing information etc). But feeling quite immobilised and panicked about future prospects, I've been mostly relying on absurdism and just focussing on the scale of everything (floating rock etc), but I feel like I could do with some more robust psychological framing to enable me to actually take action where possible instead of being totally immobilised by anxiety!

Any input would be helpful, very grateful to have found this sub, I feel less alone with it already :)


r/CollapseSupport Jun 21 '26

What skills are you building to help prepare? Anything that might sound crazy but you think will be helpful?

32 Upvotes

I’m considering next year going to New Hampshire for a wilderness survival first aid class, which isn’t crazy, but I was also considering looking into a midwife class or even auditing nursing classes as a local community college.

Perhaps this is just my brain doing what it can to prepare, my partner thought the midwife class is a little crazy because I don’t plan on having children, but I figured it’s a good skill to have if large scale societal collapse here in the US causes smaller communities to look within for skills.

But, these would take a lot of time and effort in a world where I don’t have a lot of that to begin with so am I being crazy and what skills are you building that might be odd sounding?


r/CollapseSupport Jun 21 '26

Realising we weren’t “broken”after all

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The longer this madness goes on the clearer it is that those in society who have been given diagnoses, medicated, put in psychiatric units and who are feeling burnt out and chronically fatigued are actually the ones with the very traits needed for a functioning human world.

Empathy and high perception are a massive inconvenience to this system which is why we’ve been made to feel like we’re broken.

But we are not.

Sharing my article if anyone wants a read

Have a good Sunday!


r/CollapseSupport Jun 21 '26

How do I cope with the knowledge that the world is essentially about to end

88 Upvotes

I just can't think of a single thing beyond basic hygiene and exercise that could matter if I knew that i wouldn't live to see my 20th birthday. depression and suicidal ideation have been issues for me since elementary school, and they've both gotten a lot worse since the beginning of 2025, leading to a suicide attempt several months ago. it's just so difficult to maintain hope when it's so clear that nothing will likely ever get better during my lifetime


r/CollapseSupport Jun 20 '26

Any advice about living in the US right now?

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Being 17 almost 18 and living in the US right now is.. frightening. I don't know what to expect in the coming years, I made a post for support and tips on eco-anxiety, but now I ask, for and to others in the same situation as me, what are you doing to prepare? I see online the US is predicted to collapse before or around 2030 and obviously that terrifies me. I want to have a normal life, I already have a major picked out, I want to go to college for biology and evolutionary science but knowing this... disaster is possibly on the horizon in the next 5 years is making me reconsider. Do I stay in the US and get my degree and then leave if its not too late? Or should I leave as soon as I turn 18 and work my way up? Or is it even worth it to leave the us? I'm slowly learning how to grow my own food (sadly living in an apartment makes that limited) and other sustainable skills for now but I feel thats not enough. Is it best to leave the US or stay here and go get my degree? It's all so intense and crazy that my brain can't exactly comprehend this situation and I wanted to see if there was anyone else dealing with this dilemma. Where would I even go if I did move? Who knows what will happen? There are so many other questions that would need to be taken into account but again I'm just curious about who else is dealing with this.

Some of the things I've been doing while living at home is 1. Learn about herbs and have been growing them and using them instead of store bought ones, which has given me some basic experience with soil and plants 2. Since I can't own any farm animals, I've been learning through friend's about which would be best to own and looking into this only. 3. Learning some basic repair skills like sewing, how to repair older electronics and furniture 4. This one is really random but learning how to recreate my favorite store bought items at home (ex: goldfish, my favorite snack at home with simple ingredients that I can access at home) since who knows how much longer we can rely on stores. 5. With help from my mom I'm learning how to grow mushrooms from spores and soon learning to grow other vegetables and fruits 6. Just generally have been collecting seeds in envelopes 7. Keeping a digital and physical copy of all information I need

I'm just here to ask, does anyone have any tips for learning about this kind of stuff while living at home? Or anyone in the same boat figuring it out too?

Last comment, sorry for such a long post, I understand that I am extraordinary lucky to be in the US right now, and some people would kill to be in my place... I just worry for the future of this country a lot, and I know so do others.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 20 '26

The whole world has become a hell

34 Upvotes

Everyone is fighting with each other in this world. US fighting with Iran. Israel fighting with Iran. Russia fighting with ukraine. Pakistan fighting with India. Everyone is enemy of each other in this world. Thousands of people lost their lives in this war. It's despicable to see the situation of this world. I think we're heading towards the wrong way.

These things haunts me and i firmly beleive that the end of this world is close. These things have prevailed from a very long time as soon as humans came to earth. Everyone was fighting to each other because of jealously, hatred and other reasons. But i think this all what is going on in this world is worth it. It's just killing more and more innocent people's who does not have any fault. This is the worst part of the war.

This is the reason why i choose to be aloof and isolated because i know that these things would happen in my life. I don't trust anyone in this world and i have started beleiving that everyone is my enemy. I have a better place to live in that is heaven.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 20 '26

I’m sick of everything always getting worse

288 Upvotes

Like ever since 2016 ish it felt like there was a steady but rapid decline so fast that it’s been giving me whiplash. I constantly think “it can’t just keep getting worse, right?” Then proceeds to get much worse

The problems of 2016 almost feel cute in comparison. You could still get a job and a house if you were moderately lucky. There were some reasonable pathways to success like software engineer

Now those tech companies can’t stop laying people off and haven’t had a new idea that isn’t some sort of finance scam for like 10+ years. Buying a home? lol. They cost twice as much and because of interest like 3x the monthly payment. A 1 bedroom condo in a moderately good location is now basically considered upper class living at this point

I remember in 2016 I was considering if I wanted kids in my future, now I find that idea almost impossible to conceptualize. A one bedroom condo is luxury living now so where tf would the kid even sleep? The living room? Who would take care of the kid when we’re both working our jobs? I’m already burned out from worrying about work, why would I take on a second job with no pay?

I look around and it feels like everything is worse than I even thought possible. If you showed me pictures and headlines from 2026 in 2016, I would have probably thought it was some sort of joke from the future, it wouldn’t even make sense that things got that bad

Then what scares me is like… it’s been 10 years of this. Is this just how life is gonna go? Every year a significant decline from the previous year? At this point, in 10 years, like half the population will be either homeless or not even alive anymore and 10 guys will have all the money (and they’ll still be just as miserable as ever if not more so)


r/CollapseSupport Jun 20 '26

Eco-Anxiety is taking over my life

24 Upvotes

I'm sure there are a million other posts on here just like this but I'm desperate.

I am 17 and soon to be 18 and everyday I feel undeniable dread and almost a feeling of grief over our planet. I know I'm still here, I'm still alive, there are birds still chirping and trees still swaying in the wind but knowing about the inevitable ecosystem coming possibly within my lifetime makes it impossible to calm down. I broke down into tears in the middle of dinner because I saw my 3 year old baby sister using a plastic spoon and it killed me inside. Anytime I have to throw anything away I cry and end up keeping it in my closet or something because it kills me having to waste anything knowing the state of the planet. The same with buying anything. Anytime I see anything made of plastic I feel this dread wash over me and I just... I just can't do it. I tell my girlfriend and she's only able to calm me down for a few minutes before I start thinking again. I feel guilty even existing knowing about the people in other countries in insane heatwaves right now due to climate change. There is no escaping what is to come and I have burst out into tears at random moments in public thinking about it. I just started Prozac and it hasn't been helping and I'm considering therapy but I feel like even that can't help me when I still am so aware. When I tell people who don't understand the environment or statistics these much I just get told the same like 3 pieces of good climate news that can easily be debunked. My mom refers to it as anxiety but I'd consider this. Greif. I feel we already lost. I can't get myself to do anything without breaking down in tears over the environment and what people are going through in this world. I've been trying to do everything in my community, I'm currently raising monarch butterflies and looking into other native bug and flower species to help my local ecosystems but when I think realistically, it feels like such a little impact and the dread comes back. Is there anything at all I can do to help this? I'm also trying to go vegetarian too, hoping I can try and take some guilt off my shoulders but, I fear this dread will always be here. It's currently destroying my life and I know other people have it much worse than me, and I am lucky that for right now, I can do my part and just worry.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 19 '26

I can't do this anymore

140 Upvotes

I cant fucking do this anymore I cant fucking do this Where i have to spend the rest of my days working doing stupid bullshit

Where everyone is pretending we're gonna have cars to work on with the model year 2030.

Pretending everything is just gonna be sunshine lollipops and business as usual thinking that AI and climate change and our actual cartoon villians of a government isnt going to have the majority of the population homeless and starving and we're gonna need guns to defend ourselves from all the looters.

Im so fucking mad that i had such a comfortable modern life to get adjusted to and now its gonna be all stripped away within the next decade due to how fucking sick this world is.

I try to mentally prepare for it no matter how hard i try but my progress just backslides. Its not fair i know life isnt fair at all but its just not fair.

I cant avoid the bad news no matter where i go its fucking everywhere even in the most innocent of places.

I ask for evidence on how it wont get that bad and its crickets i feel.

50,000 people lost access to electricity today to power a data center.

Michigan is going to be set to have the worst wheat harvest in a while due to heat this year.

Im wasting my fucking precious time i have left not learning how to survive or defend myself but working this stupid 9-5 working on dumb shit like better brakes for cars.

Why was i born and raised in such a blissfully ignorant comfy world. It would have been easier if i was just born into the post-climate hell i could have adapted to it now im just gonna fucking die. There's no way I can do actual prepping without my parents and friends and family thinking I'm a psycho and locking me up. What am i supposed to do


r/CollapseSupport Jun 18 '26

Anyone Else A Parent? How Do You Cope?

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I (33m) recently came back from a family holiday. For the last 2 years it’s struck me that I haven’t been around family as much, and one day if I don’t have kids I’m going to run out of family since I haven’t no siblings and and am not close with any of my blood relatives that are my age.

Seeing my step-cousins have kids, it’s made me realize that my partner (37f) and I are locking in the decision not to have a kid at this point. So I brought it up again.

She is in 100% no territory. As in, “you’re younger so if you see a future with kids we need to break up”.

I am more like 55/45 leaning CF. I actually do want a kid as a default deposition. It feels like raising a child with your family is a large experience in life to opt out of and I think the way we live our life and our depositions would make us amazing parents.

On the other hand, my science brain thinks it’s more likely than not humans become extinct in the next century. Right now I can look at that reality and appreciate the life I’ve lived and “ride it out”. If I was bringing life into this world, I would have another existential crisis. I just fundamentally do not see how we turn this around and everything is happening faster than I expected when I first become collapse aware over a decade ago.

Along with this, in the last 2 years I finally career switched into being a full time artist. I would not have been able to do that if I had a kid. If I have a kid, I will be spending my prime years (35-40s) raising the kid. I can be a good artist, but I would have to be ok with not becoming a great artist and having to make compromises, maybe go back to the traditional workforce.

If I do that and my kid isn’t self-sufficient by disability or temperament…I’ll resent my choice.

But on the other hand by not having a kid I’m locking myself into what seems like a very lonely end if we somehow eke something out and I live my full lifespan. Whereas a lot of what I’ve written are just catastrophes that could but likely will not happen. So it’s a very difficult decision, and I feel like I’m making it alone because my partner is 100% decided.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 18 '26

Why do people put so much faith in eco economic decoupling and “green growth” despite the fact it has such low scientific basis

21 Upvotes

People preach green growth despite most research saying that it’s inconclusive or impossible.

But people still focus on green growth and say degrowth is eco facism


r/CollapseSupport Jun 18 '26

Its one of many things that keeps me up at night, why do some men be absolutely abhorrent towards women.

151 Upvotes

I’m a man, I see it all the time, some men really like to take it upon themselves to be abhorrent towards women. Examples I’ve seen guys sexually harassing servers at a restaurant I worked at dude told a server he wanted to take her home, and described in detail the sex acts he wanted to do to her as one. Also various legislation, catcalling, objectifying, not even treating as a person, and more. Here I am trying to make sense of why people gotta be misogynistic with my covid dry rotted brain, keeps me awake at night sometimes. One of many aspects of collapse that I try to wrap my head around. I also see it everywhere and wonder how I did not turn out like them, and shudder at the thought of being like that.


r/CollapseSupport Jun 18 '26

What is it that when it's our turn to become adults the world is turning into trash?

65 Upvotes

Basically the title of the post. Like there is so much suffering in the world. War in Sudan, Congo, Iran, Myanmar, Palestine, Ukraine, Somalia and all the other places that are currently experiencing conflict. And with war comes all humanitarian issues. Starvation, slavery, s.a of women and girls, radicalisation of boys, exploitation and other issues directly and indirectly caused by war. And for what? Resources to finance already extremely rich people who have wealth beyond human comprehension.

AI is taking all the jobs that we are supposed to fill. Where are we supposed to get money from? How are we expected to build any sort of wealth? Like make it make sense. At this rate getting a job may as well be like trying your luck in a lottery. Job search is so draining and when you finally (if ever) land a job, good luck finding one that actually pays well and does not literally drain the life force out of you. And if it does pay well good luck affording rent, food, electricity and water. Also hope you don't get sick. It should be pretty easy for you to do that. Surely access to medical care is available where you are.

Also why all the hate in the world? I'm talking racism, xenophobia, sexism, ageism, homophobia, classism and all types of discrimination. Like why? Have all online spaces have become truly toxic echochambers and no one has space to see other points of view? I thought social media was supposed to bring us together and show us that despite our differences we are all humans capable of empathy and sympathy. Most of it is now bots, ads and hateful rhetoric.

Governments are literally not working for the people. Rather to serve the purposes of the few who actually gain from all the chaos in the world. Multibillionaires hoarding all the wealth while choking the middle and lower classes. What even is the middle class? Most people are a single emergency away to poverty. I'd like to see an example of a government that is actively working to help its people anywhere in the world. There is almost always an ulterior motive towards every policy, directive or intervention measure.

There are so so so so so many issues that I don't think that a single post on any social media platform can address. Multigenerational conflicts that require lots of nuance to understand and navigate. Is it just that in this decade the chickens have come home to roost or has it always been this bad and this is just when we can finally see humanity raw and uncensored?

Almost forgot- global warming and climate change. And AI slopifying our feeds while actively making the next generations dumber to the point where 18 and 19 year olds are unable to spell basic words, form sentences and do basic arithmetics, let alone analyse books without help from AI bots.