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It's going to be a slow collapse

I am not so sure about that.

For the vast majority of humanities existence we have been one bad harvest away from famine.

Many countries rely on food imports to feed their people.

Failed harvests in two or three of the major food exporters at the same time grows more likely each year.

One very hungry year around the world will cause chaos we have not seen since WW2.

the only solution anyone is capable of giving: "Try biking to work"

I hate this so much, too. We keep seeing these pushes for individuals to reduce their carbon footprint, but it's not the individuals who are responsible for climate change; it's the corporations who continuously skirt emissions laws and lobby for looser regulations on their industries who are polluting the planet en masse. We could all bike to work for a year, and it wouldn't even make a dent to offset the environmental damage caused by a single luxury cruise ship in that same span of time.

It's terrifying. I think one of the problems we face in getting people to demand change is that the collapse so terrifying and unthinkable that people don't allow their minds to dwell on it for long.

Why do you think the Saudis are pouring so much resources into these experimental line cities? Even they know that the system they helped create and benefited from is unsustainable, and building a self contained city in the middle of the desert is them testing the hypothesis of, can you build a habitable zone for humans in the worst case scenario of environments?

It also ties into why there are so many billionaires who are obsessed in advancing space travel as quickly as possible. Even they are starting to get nervous about the Earth they have created and will have to live in.

"well we tried nothing, its every man for himself now"

Good news everybody! MIT researchers showed that we expect societal collapse soon, and further studies into this confirm we’re on track.

Nature always starts out slow and then the slowball turns into an avalanche.

Additional it is super tiresome to read about "points of no return" every other day. My usual reaction to those headlines is "fine, get on with it".

And I do care, but doomsday narrative is effective first two or three times, and then nobody gives a shit. The problem is headlines like "buy local", "stop buying single use items" or " reduce use of plastic" are not going to bring clicks and ad revenue.