Many are also infected by a collective societal weariness.

That does not even come close to explaining. Not just weariness, hopelessness, exasperation, resignation, sadness, loss.

Seems the best thing to do is prepare for the worst and hope that after the global disaster there are some life left to start over. Sort of like Noah after the great flood.

Ordovician

Devonian

Permian

Triassic

Cretaceous

Holocene?????

What is next. Maybe we will be lucky and humans will live long enough to see Artificially Intelligent beings take over the Earth.

TEK