I have seen hundreds of posts regarding the u.n.’s announcement that climate change has passed a point of no return, and that “we let this happen” “we should’ve listened” but I’m trying so fucking hard and it doesn’t matter because what I do will always be overshadowed by the 1%.

I don’t drive. I avoid AI. I only buy my clothes and homewares secondhand or from small businesses. I don’t regularly eat meat. I don’t consume dairy. I buy my eggs directly from farmers. I buy my produce from a farmers market. I walk everywhere and catch public transport if I need to go a further distance. I am only 18 years old but I cannot see the point in continuing living on this planet. You want a smaller population? Because lately it feels like everyone just wants society gone and hey, I’m in that society. I’ve wanted to be a mother since I was a child myself. But now? I can’t do that. I can’t inflict that. What’s the point in having hopes? Dreams?

Im so fucking sick about hearing about “climate solutions”.

Just because It *can* get better doesn't mean it *will*. Climate activist and scientists have been saying that “ we have solutions To avoid the 1.5 threshhold!!! This isn’t inevitable, we just need to implement them!!! ", but they weren't implemented. Because half the fucking planet doesnt even believe in this shit. And now they‘re saying "ok fine it's inevitable that the globe will overheat but we can still stop it if we implement these new solutions!1!1!1" As if every government in the world will come together and suddenly stop what they're doing and care. Of course not, especially not with the current leadership creating data centers that are fucking destroying our ecosystem further. It is blatantly unrealistic to expect that just going vegan, buying less, recycling when people cant even tell the bins apart and emailing people who dont give a shit will offset the amount of sludge produced by a single data center, let alone the worlds fossil fuels. Sure, the world *CAN* change, the same way I *CAN* just win the lottery, the same way any billionaire *CAN* just change their mind and decide that maybe they do care about the people the share the planet with. But the chances of that? Bullshit. And dont tell me to have hope, I HAD HOPE!!!! I HAD HOPE THAT IT WOULD NEVER REACH THIS POINT AND IT STILL DID. Hope with no real, substantial action is worthless. The only real solution is if somehow the people in power letting this happen *get what they deserve*, otherwise, these microscopic "changes" you make by walking in 110 degree weather instead of driving a car is just a useless attempt at placating yourself and feeling like you're doing good when really you're just as complicit and every other citizen in letting this happen. This is bullshit. I want change so bad but after a certain point theres really nothing left to do unless you wanna martyr yourself.

Like many of you, I find myself in the ‘burned idealist’ category of cynic. Even as my growing dread manifests in resentment of humanity, I find myself very easily charmed by people I meet or just see online. I find it very hard to not see the good in people, or to not want to see the good it people. I adore art, in many forms, and regret not having the opportunity to dedicate my life to art.

There’s a beauty in how unwavering our yearning for beauty can be. How people whose houses have been turned to rubble can find something (albeit between long periods of suffering and distress nobody should endure) to make them smile or make them feel hopeful.

I realize the world will always have light - however uneven, fragmented and dim. But as I get older, I wonder if I’ll still be able to see it. Not because collapse will vanquish it, but because it will vanquish my will to see it.

From this possibility, my brain has conjured an attitude that’s beginning to atrophy me on its own. Intensified by a wish to be freed of this nebulous, all-consuming dread, I decided I wouldn’t make myself live through a world without beauty. Not even out of a burning suicidal ideation in the present, it’s more ruthlessly rational. Because this world has already broken my heart so deeply, and even beyond fighting for survival, I dread how much more the future will break me. That’s a kind of death to me. I don’t want the humanity I fell in love with to be nothing more than a memory.

But, trying to live my day-to-day life with these thoughts in the back of my head is impossible. Ironically but predictably dulling my sensation to beauty in the present. Dampening my motivation to build anything. How could I ever let someone fall in love with me if this is in the back of my head. It’s unthinkable to me - to ask someone for their life while planning to take my own. My career in public work, which I pursued “to make the world a better place” feels like a circus. A bunch of well-meaning people deliberating over where to place furniture while a bombs heading for the roof. My general despondency and natural fatigue from modern life leave inadequate time for my creative pursuits, which feel similarly pointless even upon completion.

My escape plan is killing my life before my very eyes. But the alternative - planning to live however long I’ll live - just brings me back to where I started. In doing so replacing greying, depressive vacancy with guttural, anxious hyper-awareness. Which, as we all know, presents its own set of impediments to daily life.

The answer of “What do I have to live for?” decides itself. I realize that now. And I still don’t know what to do.

My view; the world is fucked but there are things we can do to change it...but the people who can or could change things won't...so we're fucked.

I'm a 21M who was abused from 2017 to 2023, in that time I autopiloted my life almost to when I started getting out in 2021.

From 2023 to 2026 that auto pilot ness came back as uni did fuck all to help as they didn't critique you and told you "it's there, ✌️" and that was it for post uni stuff.

So safe to say I've not been existing for most of my life and to be in 2026, with dreams and finally having a function with wanting to grow and change...the world is passed or close to getting passed an unavoidable point and life just is not going to exist whatsoever in the years to come.

Fucking brilliant.

It sucks to look in a mirror and see myself which I am barely grasping who that is to then realise anything I ever went through was pointless and I should've ended it all back when I first got the idea than lean into hope and optimism and perseverance and all that shit.

Like...deadass this makes me believe in past lives cause what the fuck did I do to deserve this "existence".

I have dreams but at this point holy shit they're going to stay being a pit in my heart and all that shite.

Like...what's the point or whatever?

I don't know what I'm trying to get out of this other than maybe direction as that's something I clearly have on a rocky surface at this point over believing my dreams are possible or just concepts and ideas that are not really fun to avoid watching it all go down and suffering ever much more than I already have.

So yeah, fun shit :D

basically the title.

im feeling extremely trapped recently. i like my job but i just feel like i should do something that actually matters like volunteering at an animal shelter or something. i just want to help and be more connected to nature & animals.

I'm so done with it all. It's all bullshit. Everything.

I'm done with landlords that take thousands of € a year and do nothing for it. They don't even fix the leaking pipes or make sure there's 24/7 warm water.

I'm done with bullshit work that accomplishes nothing. Wasting 1000+ hours a year staring at excel and outlook. And babysitting grown adults who are too stupid to plug in a keyboard. And superiors who's only occupation is to make more pointless work.

I'm done with the internet. Full of ads, slop, walled gardens, astroturfing AI bots, subscription models, and grifters. And a hundred million toxic idiots who've got nothing better to do with the gift that is life than spread hate and vitriol everywhere they go.

I'm done with living in a society that demands that I forever sacrifice my whole life without giving me anything in return. Not even the bare essentials. A society that only barely allows minorities like me to exist peacefully.

I'm done trying to save nature while there are a billion humans who are hellbent on cutting down every tree, mining every m² of profitable dirt, burning up all the oil they can get their grubby hands on, burying every meadow under asphalt, and drowning out the stars with a trillion bright blue LEDs.

I'm done caring for people who silently resent me and drop me as soon as it is convenient for them.

I'm done with an entertainment industry that is so godawful at their one job that it's less frustrating to stare at a wall and go to bed early. Can't even game all day or binge movies nowadays.

I'm done paying hundreds of € a month on social services that don't provide anything. I can't even get a damn flu vaccine without a waiting list and copays. I've been sick for years and I've got zero actual help from anywhere in the social system. I could finance a damn house credit from my social fees and I don't even get an appointment despite having a referral.

I'm tired of being chronically ill in a society that despises me for it. That always sees me as less-than. That always frames me as unworthy. That always frames me like my existence is a burden that should not be there. That always treats me like scum for something that I couldn't choose and can't control.

I'm done buying shit because every damn thing is sold half-broken. The amount of things I've had to return because they were completely broken in original packaging in the last 3 years... The amount of things that break down in no time despite the most careful usage that's possible.

I'm done pursuing sciences and knowledge if 99% of humans out there completely refuse to reflect upon themselves, question their behaviour, and do the bare f***ing minimum to improve on anything whatsoever. It's better talking to a wall or screaming into the forest, because my walls and trees don't believe in conspiracy theories. And I'm equally done with all these religious zealots who want to take us back to 1600.

I'm done suffering the consequences of mistakes that were committed by people 50 years before I was even born. I'm done making up for the societal problems that others have caused and refuse to fix themselves.

I'm done having my already mediocre days ruined by some idiot who believes they're entitled to make their problem my problem and use me as a cushion for their lack of emotional maturity.

I'm so tired of it all. I want to disappear into a cave and never come out.

I’m struggling to explain myself now. I don’t know how to start. I don’t know why I had to think this way, it’s better to be ignorant. I hope it’s a passing thought but it’s the truth, it’s the only world I’ll know, it’s only going to get worse.

I’m a teenager, I don’t want to know this stuff. I don’t know why I keep thinking, keep researching. Why I feel this amount of guilt and dread for the future, I can’t do anything, no one really can.

Our world is just consumerism. Everything I type, swipe, send, it’d all tracked. To get us to keep scrolling, buying, playing. Games only add updates to keep you playing, add codes that get you free stuff just so you don’t get fomo. Stores give loyalty cards, promo codes, discounts to get you buying again.

You might say, well that’s obvious. But I wish it wasn’t. I don’t want to know this. And with the rise of surveillance tracking, my future is bleak. My data traded and prices inflate. Grocery stores/supermarkets are now having digital price tags in real life so they can change the price depending on the need, if it’s a sunny day raise the price of ice cream. So much so that if you have bluetooth and the store on your phone it can connect to these.

That’s not a world worth living in. I can’t do anything. But I feel so guilty every-time I buy something, I can’t stop them from stealing my parent’s data. That in ten years it’ll be the norm. And I’m meant to be all okay. I wish I didn’t know any of this. I don’t want to.

Are you saving because you expect the economy to get worse, or are you spending while your money still has some value?

Personally, I spend every extra cent on stockpiling food while it’s still relatively affordable, and on time with friends while we still can. I barely save anymore because I think my savings will lose most of their value over the next few years.

What are you doing?

I've been having a lot of dreams lately about the Tech Bros and their ilk. Peter Thiel is a frequent, recurring figure. In my dreams I'm brought before him and made to answer for the sins of empathy and for my lack of productivity and hubris at having deigned to waste any of his planet's precious resources on such idiocy. He then shoots me, or if it's a particularly grim dream, tortures me to death.

I think my body is telling me that they've won and it's only a matter of time until I'm eradicated by them in the last desperate days of the planet. I just give up. It's hard to care any more.

Protest sign from last year. With regards to the previous post.

Also, if a mod sees this, why are videos allowed as comments but not photos? (curious inquiry)

I am linking this author's post. I have no affiliation, not even a subscription, lol. But i do read her stuff. She is very much not for everyone. I want to preface this with... I am familiar with some communes, i grew up with an associated organization my parents helped create that used co-operative decision making (think kind of a business, not religious) and i have for some time now, lived with around 10 people in my home (extended family, family eatranged from other family). If you ask me who i am i am a total recluse and not at all social. Mostly because i dislike peoples ego games. She addresses a point and i cannot make so well myself. It is worth a ponder. It is why i tell people they have to look on the mirror first. Why i say you have to clean up your own stuff/issues/etc. why? Because what ahe is talking about is what i have watched for years in community after community and they attempt to work on different mechanisms of power to solve the problem. They call them 'structures' or 'decision making methods'. But they are just mechanisms of power. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2e074nn8eko

I am finally being medicated and honestly the only thing it’s doing is making me less sad. Which is good but no pill can mask the pointlessness.

Nothing is fulfilling. I could easily be replaced with AI. I will never get a job with people because everyone is just so tribal. I hate tribes. All of them. I hate them more and more. We should destroy all of them. Destroy teams, destroy countries, destroy families. Treat everyone the same.

I could never get a job with animals. I hate them too. I hate nature. It’s an engine of suffering filled with beings far worse than us. I do not understand anyone who likes animals more than people. They are not innocent, they cause harm. They would consume endlessly like us. We feel remorse, they don’t. Why are we worse? Any animal would eat you if they could.

What I wanted more than anything was to make something lasting. To have my name remembered alongside the likes of Graham Bell, Curie, people who changed the world. Turns out I am not smart enough despite everyone in my childhood claiming I was. Now all my contributions are meaningless.

Now I have to choose a “community”. Just another team. Another arbitrary group I am supposed to like more than others. What if I am wrong? What if it’s all a trap? What if I pick the wrong one and in the end I will be mocked and punished for it? What is the right one? I don’t want to choose an answer, I want to be told the right one or at least given the means to know it. And I mean KNOW it? Not think it.

The collapse will wipe away everything meaningful. What’s the point? Just to not die?

I remember seeing vultures all the time growing up, always eating roadkill. I don’t remember when I stopped seeing them. I just suddenly realized I hadn’t in years. Then I started seeing the articles about how they’re going extinct and I realized that’s why I hadn’t seen them in ages.

At first I thought they were wild turkeys crossing the road. I slowed down and one of them took off into the trees. That’s when I saw the dead squirrel they had been eating and realized those weren’t turkeys at all.

Idk about you, but I’m reminded every day of how different things are. Going weeks without cleaning my windshield in the summer when it used to be you couldn’t go three days before it was covered in bug guts. Empty skies that used to be full of birds. Quiet mornings that used to be a cacophony of sound.

But seeing those vultures makes me both sad and happy. Sad for all we’ve lost. Happy that I got to see that they’re here after all. I honestly wasn’t sure I’d ever see them in the “wild” again.

a week ago, i posted that my wife & i decided to host a casual neighborhood meet up in our front yard/driveway. we invited 150 houses and had no idea who would even show up.

we were overwhelmed with joy and gratitude that we had over 30 people at our house by 6pm, just hanging out and getting to know each other. people from all ages showed up -- babies and toddlers, teens, young parents, middle age folks, and some elderly folks with their walkers. everyone was just so happy to be there and talk to each other. no one was on their phones the entire time.

if you have the time and resources to do something like this in your community, i strongly encourage it. our set up wasn't fancy, but it was genuine. some people even brought food to share. we learned about everyone's skills and interests. now, when there's a crisis, i know who to ask for help for certain things. when we lose power again, i know what elderly neighbor i need to check on.

community is our birthright as humans and people are hungry for it. these were people from all different beliefs and backgrounds coming together simply because we're neighbors. this is what our algorithms won't show us, but this is what is possible, and the goodness that exists in humanity.

this is what will build resiliency in times of collapse.

How do you keep going when nothing ever changes? I pour everything I have into my local community because it makes me feel like I’m doing something, but it doesn’t matter. My neighbors still die of heat exhaustion. Die in fires. Get hooked on substances to numb the pain. I work and work and work and it’s all for nothing. My wealth and privilege mocks the people who actually deserve these resources. One day I will take everything I have, including my body, and give it to people who actually deserve it.

I’m happy in my life. But then I’m reminded of how disgusting and cruel it is for me to be happy. I’m in the USA, I directly fund genocide with my taxes. I use a gas car. I eat meat. I’m a filthy hypocrite who will rot in hell if it exists because my existence is killing this planet. If I were to go vegan, completely stop participating in the economy, and commit the rest of my life to radical activism, I might be ok. I could then call myself a good person. But I’m weak and have no plans to do that. I’m just like every other white person in the imperial core - a participant in genocide. My ideals and actions are opposite and I created a life I like. If I didn’t do that, if I had stayed true to my ideals, I would be good by now.

I don’t want to be good. I don’t want incremental change. I don’t want 3.9 C warming instead of 4 C warming. I want to exit. I want to leave it all forever. I want total justice, total eradication of all of us who are responsible for this.

There’s no point to this post. Please don’t report me, I won’t actually hurt myself, I’m too much of a coward to do so.

I don't even care anymore. My last healthy cope with collapse I feel, which was prepping, I realize has become useless. What's the point of learning to garden and hunt and etc when all living things including crops will not be able to survive within 10 years anyway?

Therefore, my last option was gone and I'm now basically treating my life as if I have a 2027-2028 cancer diagnosis.

So I'm basically going full hedonism, alcoholism and cutting off my meds included. I don't care if it's not healthy, if I'm going to die soon anyway health doesn't matter.

Ethically, yes I should engage in practices that would help the climate but it doesn't override the need to cope at this point.

It makes me ignorant and a worse person but I'm just too numb to it to care.

Edit:

I'd love so hard to find a purpose in learning bushcraft and gardening and etc. Knowing that "hey collapse and the climate is coming but these can statistically increase the chances that me and my family survive at least a couple more decades". But I basically went on a giant r/collapse rabbithole and I'd see stuff like "you think gardens will save you, that's cute". 

And that's basically what sent me in my current spiral. Prepping was kind of my only "cope" when I became aware.

The game plan now is honestly yes I still feel hedonistic. But I won't forget to help others less fortunate and nature feel good too along the way.

I've been scrolling through the main Collapse subreddit for a few weeks npw, as well as other climate change related subreddits, and other websites that are related to climate change. I'm a 31-year-old man (I turn 32 on 2nd November), and have lived in Coventry, England for all of my life. I have a twin sister, who has a son who turned 2 back in June. She originally never wanted any children, but decided to keep him after discovering that she was pregnant (she never intended to get pregnant). I personally never wanted children of my own. However, climate change has really cemented that for me. I personally couldn't forgive myself for having a child whilst watching the world burn around me.

Also, as much as I love my nephew, I can't help but believe my sister and her fiancé are selfish for bringing him into this world. In fact, there are times that I wish I could go back in time to tell my mum and dad to not have me and my sister so that we couldn't witness the collapse. My dad's 73. However, my mum died of cancer back in January of this year. She was 69. I miss her so much, but I'm glad that she's not here to witness the collapse.

I wish someone in the world had magical powers... specifically someone who really cares about climate change. I wish that person could wave their magic wand to:

- Magically suck all of the harmful carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

- Magically cool the Earth down by 1.5 degrees.

- Reverse ocean acidification, deforestation, etc.

- Get rid of all of the things and powerful people that have caused human-induced climate change.

- Increase the amount of food and fresh drinking water in the world.

- Increase the amount of wild and native plants and animals in each individual country.

On top of all of this, I have a question or two to ask you all. Is humanity doomed? Are humans going to go extinct at some point this century, or next century? I do know that the planet won't actually physically end. It's not going to end for another estimated 4 to 5 billion years. But it feels like the current part of the Earth's history is going to end.

i just feel such a deep sorrow and sadness about what is happening in the world and the way world works just feel so unfair. Like everything is so normalized. im not even affected by social media i havent been much online nowadays. Logically, I just cant accept the way the world works. i guess it will never sit with me. A genocide is happening and people are not caring about it. In the past i have organized protest against my countrys' relations with israel. I got detained multiple times. But i dont feel like i actually did what i can. I feel so weak. I wanted to go to west bank as a volunteer. And i set my mind to it. Then, i couldnt find the courage to actually go. I experienced quite high levels of anxiety about doing it, couldnt sleep for a week. Then i gave up of the idea of doing solidarity presence there. I felt great amount of guilt and sadness. I can choose to look away but Palestinians dont have the option to do so. I just dont wanna live in such unjust world. I am so stuck with these feelings. I live as i was doing, doing my duties at home, taking care of my family and pets, but i feel dead inside. I also feel guilt about making this about myself. I just needed to share with someone.

How is your mindset about the state of the world? What keeps you going in such situation? I feel demotivated to live.

I just came across a very chilling video. And basically, it's some guy saying how because of how climate change is going, we're all gonna die like in a few years and that change is too slow so there's nothing to stop it...and people in the comments agreeing with everything with what he's saying saying that it's the truth and reality that we need to accept that we're gonna die. And uh, what? Is this true? Because I'm freaking out right now

edit: I watched more videos about climate change, and a lot of videos says that there's no hope, that we already lost and that we should just give up. I wonder if there really is no hope anymore or if i was wandering on the doomerism side of the internet