I'm with Richard and Benny above, in that the world is screwed and all of the 'solutions' that are being presented are bullshit. I just watched a show about the drought in the southwest ("The Colorado Problem" on Curiosity Stream). Same thing: people talk about how much energy, fuel or water is "needed", but what they really mean is "desired by comfortable people who don't want to be uncomfortable". I love your title. I feel fine, too. It's for different reasons, though. I'm getting older now, but 35 years ago, a friend who I considered very self-sufficient and skilled told me, "When the world goes to shit, I want to be wherever you are because you understand how everything works." I keep that in mind as the world ends. People will need us with skills to find ways to survive and get along without instant comforts and magic buttons. They will need to learn to make things from wood and stone and basic wire and leave the fancy stuff to the shrunken cities and warring governments who will be fighting on foot for no reason at all. When the grid fails, I'll build basic windmills out of car parts. I'll turn those Queer-Quad Crew Cab Surfer trucks into tractors and Jet Skis into fish pond aerators running on alcohol. I can make shit work, but I don't fix bullshit. I will compost the dead bodies that are going to be piling up on the highways.
Yes, the world is ending and I feel 'fine' (meaning, "I feel like crap about it, but it's not about me anymore."). My kids will figure out what they need to figure out, if they don't get burned by fanatics.
As the Western forests burn and economies collapse from lack of physical resources (water is only going to be one of their problems when transportation systems fail and the economy only functions on basic trade and government rationing), the East will eat itself in plain old jealous rage and competition for power and food (Competition paints a target on everyone; resentment pulls the trigger). Fanatical competition over competing fanaticisms (and brands on their faces) is no way to live, but it's what the New Normal is based on. Modern Monetary Theory has no sense of the dying horse of low interest rates and debt-based economic growth without cheap easy electricity and the smooth pyramid-building power of high octane gasoline.
I'm fine with it because the vast majority of our human endeavor is based on useless bullshit just to pretend we are in a blind competition over how many resources can be 'conquered'. It's been this way since civilization and it's time to wind down the clock on this Sudden Death overtime period we call Modern Life.
Nature gets the last free throw and it's aimed at our heads because the basket was a human invention and she doesn't play our games.
