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At this rate just spend the time with the people you love the most. Our governments aren't taking this seriously, and the corporations causing most of this will get their judgment as Sol fries them for their insolence.
I agree to an extent. I think governments or more accurately the civil servants in government are taking it seriously. I work with a local Doughnut Economics group and 2 years ago we couldn't even get the time of day, now the amount of calls and emails we have gotten from state, city & county officials is amazing. They want to take it seriously its just they don't know how. However in my experience I think they are starting to adequately freak out now, they are just keeping a straight face because "don't want the public to panic".
The "don't panic" is moot. People are dying. Its not time to panic, but the time for comprehensive, serious, and extremely enforceable plans was 5 years ago. Now there will be massive problems, its unavoidable.
Oh yeah in so many ways its a too little too late. The best time to have fixed this problem was 40 years ago, the second best time is now. Nothing will be perfect, and we are definitely going to get so many things wrong. All I am saying is that there is some hope for something better, just gotta keep focusing on that and try hard to not fall down the rabbit hole of existential dread.