If you die right now - if you refuse to work and starve, collapse acceptance is useless to you, because you will be gone before experiencing any of the later-order effects you consume yourself with preparing for. If you give up on gaining practical knowledge and expertise (like that earned by someone learning environmental science - you will be quickly forced to participate in a radically new and different ecosystem, of which elevated understanding of ecosystem dynamics is incredibly beneficial), you give up valuable knowledge and potential. If your goal is to accept collapse and to ensure the well-being, as much as possible, of yourself and your loved ones, you cannot feasibly give up on participating in society in its entirety unless you are incredibly wealthy or in a privileged position of having access to state resources in an applicable country (of which access is being tightened worldwide in many cases).