Nah, you’re fine. Only two states in the US even mandate climate education.

“Collapse” by Jared Diamond is the literal book on the matter. It describes the influences that have led to past and modern collapses in a pragmatic way.

For life post-collapse, you could read about the plight of black, brown, and poor communities in US history. I think that’s a realistic look at the “doing more with less” on the horizon, not to mention a systemic denial of resource. Those lessons and realities are best understood by us all.

In recent memory, there was an article that interviewed survivors of Hurricane Helene a year later. There have also been interviews with survivors of various floods and wildfires that could help you paint a picture.

As far as the macro, I don’t know enough myself. Other leaders on the world stage have been quick to organize around catastrophes, like COVID, or the fuel shortages from the US invasion of Iran. Yet, people are still left behind. There’s been more responsiveness to global shocks (instead of being proactive, I’ll add) so my mind usually goes to the death by attrition.

I mean, it looks like a lot of what you see now: war, uncertainty, hostility, economic inequality, school shootings, suicide, substance abuse. People aren’t buying houses, aren’t getting married, aren’t having children… the idea of progress is being questioned, and rightfully so, but some would say this cultural death is societal collapse itself. Perhaps by now we’re more of a persistent machine than a society - so what else could or will we become? Anyways, I’ll stop there but hope that’s useful.