It’s worth pointing out that in Bendell’s definition I shared above, he does not say collapse is the end to sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity, and meaning — just that it’s an end to our “normal modes” of acquiring all those things.

So start thinking today about how you can attain some of those things elsewhere, from non-monetary or t

In reading the various takes and responses online, it occurred to me that some Harris voters were still holding onto the idea of partisan politics as a beacon of hope. They still believed that if the right person wins, we might return to a time when things were good and normal, when things were stable again. The arc could still bend towards justice

But what happens when systemic change doesn’t seem to come? When we’re burned out by another traumatic election cycle, and all we want to do is retreat into our homes and judge our Trump-supporting neighbors? Baby boomers have come to realize that their adult children’s lives likely won’t be as economically prosperous as their own. But many millenn

Seeing the world change so quickly in such a short amount of time in 2020 jolted something awake in me. Collapse, though I may not have called it that at the time, felt breathtakingly close. It no longer made sense to me to pursue the same version of success I had up to that point. Even though I was covering the travel industry critically and aggre

If this all seems small and insignificant in the face of what I’m writing about here, I get it. We have been trained to think this stuff doesn’t add up to much. But consider that over the last five to ten years, almost every smart and well-credentialed climate thinker I read says the same thing: the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best

I’ve broadly come to think of collapse as the antidote to the narrative of infinite progress. The one we’re all steeped in, which tells us that with the right technology, innovation, and political party in power, we can save the way we’re living now. We won’t have to face what’s coming for us in a climate sense, and we don’t have to change anything

if you zoom out, way beyond the timescales we’re accustomed to planning our lives on, you might start to think of yourself as a participant in a culture of transition. You can engage with what he called the “thousand year clean-up,” where the “new normal is about a millennium from now.”

That, more than anything else, feels energizing to me right now. As I’ve written before: Most of the things we need to do to heal the planet and our society are the same things that would heal ourselves. Figuring out how I’m going to live Here makes my life better right now, today. At the same time, it prepares me for a future that feels very uncer

What I’ve found since 2020 is that there is some relief in acknowledging the Here. While I believe my son’s life may be materially worse off than my own, I think about how it could possibly be better too — psychologically, spiritually, and collectively. I think about how many of the social problems we lament — the mental health crisis among young p