As with all (and especially self-identified) doomer literature, this piece stops just before the important realization: you can't do it yourself, but you can do it with your community.

Our lives are going to get worse. Many people will die. If we form sustainable local communities, and build political coalitions to lessen the damage going forward, fewer of us will die, and our lives will get "less worse".

It's not over until it's over.