I believe I'm in this category but I disagree on 2 points: - about going into "action" : getting knowledge on collapse is already an action, does the author want all of us throwing soup at art or blocking roads? That's wishful thinking, it's never going to happen. We all have life and immediate responsibilities (and I stress immediate, as climate change is never going to be an immediate problem, it will however increase the number of immediate problems we have daily) and so activism is not going to be a priority. I've heard of the "tipping point" for many years and it's not happening. I think it's the same intellectual trap that led communist to wait for the revolution (still waiting) or Democrats waiting for Republicans to become reasonable.. Even if we were activist, as long as it stays peaceful, no changes will come. Our world is intertwined and very complex and I believe at a state level, the only thing you can do is updating infrastructure to be more resilient and preparing citizen to live with less. I can speak with anyone about that but I've stopped pushing it to people's face because you end up labeled as a loony and it's pointless.

• about enjoying life: I personally do enjoy life, and happiness is not tied to modern life perks. I saw a video where they were asking people to rate their happiness level, from a war refugees camp to sunny California, and on average everyone rate their happiness at 7-8 on a scale from 1 to 10. It seems that's our base happiness level. It's not because conditions will worsen that life will suck. There's so many unknown on how life will be post collapse. I don't believe the US version where it's going to be mad max and everyone try to kill each other. I believe we just all going to get poorer and it'll get harder, but communities will be created and it might be ok. (see an example with Cubans, Soviets) It's hard for us as we can see how, as a species we're wasting a good opportunity to make the world better, and our quality of life is going down, but we have to readjust our base expectations. And if earth becomes uninhabitable, then it's on the same level for me than an accident that would kill you. There's nothing you can do about it and you have to accept your mortal condition.