It’s not about you, either — Margaret Klein Salamon has some advice for you: Use your imagination to explore what it will feel like while civilization is collapsing: No water coming from the tap; not knowing whether to stay or go; mass starvations and migrations growing. She has some more advice: Stop hiding from the news…

Stop. — Here’s some fun news: Barely 5 percent of all plastic in America gets recycled. We threw away 51 million tons of it in a single year, 2021. Most of that went into landfills, even when it was allegedly sent overseas. The plastic industry has been lying to Americans, telling them…

It’s a license to print money. — Hey, are your views down? Are you sad nobody’s reading your listicles anymore? Are you jealous of writers who can make a decent income with compelling content about social issues, or their personal lives? Do you hate the way their work resonates with a wide audience? Does it bug you…

An orphan has some things to say. — One of my friends recently lost her husband. He died suddenly from a blood clot. He was healthy. He was fit. He was young. He had a future. Now she’s pregnant. It’s a girl. There’s a lot of that going around these days. Healthy young people with bright futures are…

It’s another wake-up call — The Mississippi River is pretty much gone. I don’t mean that figuratively. I don’t mean it’s happening slowly. In Memphis, it’s gone. There’s nothing left but a dry river bed. It looks like a desert. I’ve driven across the Mississippi River countless times over the last few decades. …

The Avengers screwed us. — Sure, the Avengers movies were fun. They were also horrible. They twisted ecology and environmental science into a plot point, creating the ultimate villain — a radical climate activist. That’s basically what Thanos is. He knows what has to be done. …

It’s getting on my nerves. — One of the most popular articles of all time is by a guy complaining about how smart he is. It makes him unhappy. It keeps him single. It makes it hard for him to follow instructions. He probably spent less than an hour writing it, and he probably walked away…

It’ll make you a millionaire, in cat bucks. — Have you heard? Doctors and lawyers are broke. They’re barely scraping by. Can you believe that? They can’t even afford the same tiny studio apartments they lived in when they were waiting tables 20 years ago. Times are tough. That’s why I’m going to make you a millionaire. But first… …

Really, I do. — You hear it all the time. Some tech bro just made a fortune trading crypto, or trading stocks, or trading non-fungible tokens. Either that, or he’s going to make a fortune doing it, and he’s sick of having to pay taxes. He thinks the government screwed him by printing trillions…