There's also another possibility. You are an intelligent, aware problem solver who seeks patterns that flow together and prevent failure in the future. This is the underlying function of the human mind: to build a model of the universe so that when we put our Id inside that model (upon physical maturity), we have the ability to Intend a better world and make it happen physically.
Everything about modern systems is designed to manipulate our ability to intend 'good' so that we buy crap that's bad (net consumptive) and enrich someone telling us we shouldn't make the world in front of us better for people coming up behind us (the chillllldrennnnn). Instead, we are supposed to believe that making the world better for Aristos by competitively enslaving ourselves to creditors will somehow magically all work out for the best (The Invisible Hand Job).
I advocate for sales taxes and UBI. Why? because everyone would make the world a better place if they were paid to do so, and if they see the real costs of making the world worse; at the point they make a choice.
The only votes that are counted in the modern world are those at the checkouts.
Save a penny (stop shopping) and you save the world. Teach the world to sell crap for "always low prices", and the world burns.
We are 100 years behind the curve at saving the world from its own success.
The eco-anxiety is just touching the surface. We have to embrace the true depth of the horror and the economic dissonance before we can truly see what "saving the world" will take.
An example I've used of late is pretty simple. Think of a gallon of gasoline as 100 manhours that people buy for around 4 dollars. They use it to drive 4000 lbs of steel and rubber to places that don't need steel and rubber.
Reversing that economic model, people would have to be willing to do 100 hours of useful work for 4 dollars. What is the value of labor and money in such a picture? Are you then more willing to gift your labor and expect a possible social return? Or is your mindset still stuck in making $50 dollars an hour to buy something to do the labor? Where is the real value to your place? What labor will offer a small but perpetual return (planting a fruit tree, raising children, etc)?
The biggest anxiety coming at us is the realization that our 'civilized' labors are mostly just bullshit, and the money doesn't mean anything except to people who market that bullshit.
